Israel’s attacks on Gaza intensify, as freezing temperatures cost more lives : Peoples Dispatch
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Israel has committed hundreds of ceasefire violations since October 2025, thwarting the possibility of advancing to phase two of the talks.

Three months after the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal took effect, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued carrying out grave violations across the besieged enclave.

At least three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike that targeted a group of civilians in the Al-Balad area in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis on Monday, January 12.

A woman also sustained injuries on Monday after being shot at by Israeli soldiers in the Al-Batn al-Sameen area of Khan Younis.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip announced that the police chief of Khan Younis, Lieutenant Colonel Mahmoud Al-Astal, was assassinated by an Israeli-backed militia in the Al-Mawasi area west of the city.

21 Palestinians, including 18 children, freeze to death

As the blockade imposed by the IOF on the war-torn territory still persists, the humanitarian crisis has aggravated, leaving many displaced people without shelter and heating during the cold weather.

The Gaza-based Palestinian Health Ministry reported that three Palestinian children, including a newborn and a two-month-old baby, have frozen to death since Sunday, January 11.

The ministry added that 21 Palestinians, including 18 children, died in Gaza due to the cold weather since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal aggression on October 7, 2023.

In a statement released on Monday, the ministry further indicated that 442 Palestinians died, while 1,240 others were injured, as a result of Israeli violations of the truce agreement that came into force in October 2025.

This takes the official death toll of Palestinians, who were killed by the IOF across Gaza in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks to 71,419 people.

In spite of Israel’s continued atrocities, mediators and guarantors of the ceasefire deal, above all the Trump administration, remain unmoved, crushing every hope for advancing towards phase two of the agreement.

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