ISRAELI air attacks in Gaza today killed at least 19 Palestinians, most of them women and children, according to hospital officials.

Israel pledged to continue strikes, saying that it was responding to an attack on Israeli soldiers that seriously wounded one.

Among the Palestinians killed were five children, including a five-month-old and a baby just 10 days old, seven women and a paramedic, said hospital officials.

They are the latest Palestinians in Gaza to die since a ceasefire deal came into effect on October 10 2025.

More than 530 Palestinians have been killed by Israel, according to Gaza health officials, while Israel’s military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed.

The escalating Palestinian death toll has rocked the US-backed truce and caused Palestinians in the strip to say it does not feel like the war has ended.

“The genocidal war against our people in the Gaza Strip continues,” said Dr Mohamed Abu Selmiya, director of Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, in a Facebook post. “Where is the ceasefire? Where are the mediators?”

Israel’s military has said its continuing strikes are responses to Hamas violations or militant attacks on its soldiers, but dozens of civilians have been killed. Eight Arab and Muslim countries, including mediators Egypt and Qatar, recently condemned what they called Israel’s “repeated violations” of the deal.

An Israeli military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Israel was striking the strip in response to militant gunfire that badly wounded a reservist soldier this morning.

Israeli troops targeted a building in the Tuffah neighbourhood in north Gaza, killing at least 11 people, most from the same family, said Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies.

The dead included two parents, their 10-day-old girl, her five-month-old cousin and their grandmother.

Mourners gathered in the courtyard of Shifa hospital this morning for funeral prayers.

“What did this child do? Was she [affiliated with] Hamas or Fatah? Why are they killing the children?” asked a relative of the family killed in Tuffah, Mohammad Jaser.

Another Israeli strike on a family’s tent in the southern city of Khan Younis killed three people including a 12-year-old boy, according to Nasser hospital.

Tank shelling in Gaza City’s eastern neighbourhood of Zaytoun killed another three Palestinians, according to Shifa Hospital, including a husband and his wife.

A strike on a tent in the Muwasi area of Khan Younis killed at least two people and wounded five others, according to a field hospital run by the Palestinian Red Crescent in the area.