Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

A rainstorm swept across the Gaza Strip, flooding hundreds of tents, collapsing homes sheltering families displaced by two years of war and killing at least six people, local health officials said.

Medics said five people, including two women and a girl, died when homes collapsed near Gaza City’s beach, while a one-year-old boy died of extreme cold in a tent in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza.

Residents tried to resecure remaining shelters, hammering in loosened pegs and stacking sandbags around the edges to keep floodwaters from pouring inside.

“We didn’t realise what was happening until the wall started collapsing — an eight-meter-high wall, a strong concrete wall. Because of the speed and force of the wind, the wall fell on top of us, onto three tents,” said Bassel Hamuda, a displaced man in Gaza.

“The elderly man, 73 years old, was martyred. His son’s wife was killed, and his son’s daughter was killed,” he told Reuters.

At least 100 children have been killed in airstrikes and violence in Gaza since the start of the ceasefire three months ago, said the United Nations.

"More than 100 children have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire of early October. That’s roughly a girl or a boy killed here every day during a ceasefire," James Elder, spokesman for the UN children’s agency Unicef, told reporters in Geneva from Gaza City.

He said the children had been killed in "airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones [...] tank shelling [...] live ammunition".

The Hamas has confirmed that it has instructed all governmental bodies and institutions to prepare for the transfer of all administrative responsibilities to an independent Palestinian technocratic authority, reported the Times of Israel and Arab News.

In a televised statement on Sunday, Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem declared: “Following the announcement by US President Donald Trump of his intention to establish a Peace Council for the Gaza Strip, the Movement has directed all governmental bodies and institutions to be ready to hand over all responsibilities to this council.”

Qassem emphasised that this represents a clear and final decision by the Movement, noting: “Instructions have been issued to facilitate the handover process in order to ensure the success of this body, in line with the wider Palestinian interest and as part of implementing the plan that brought an end to the war on Gaza under the Sharm El-Sheikh agreement.”

The Artists for Aid benefit concert, organised by Sudanese-Canadian artist Mustafa the Poet and hosted by Bella Hadid and Pedro Pascal, raised $5.5 million for humanitarian relief in Palestine and Sudan.

Mustafa the Poet also shared on Instagram, "I am forever indebted to every artist, every organiser, every believer, every hand. I am nothing but a bridge and if all I’ve done in this life is walk artists to each other, and walk artists to people whose voices are missing, then I’ve lived a life worth dying for."⁠

Residents of a northern West Bank village have formed a night watch committee to guard against repeated attacks by armed Israeli settlers, after cars were torched and villagers injured in multiple overnight attacks.

In an interview with The Economist, Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israeli army doesn’t “target journalists” and said the reason international journalists aren’t allowed in without the Israeli forces supervision is because Gaza is a “warzone”.

As of December 2025, Israel had killed over 260 journalists in Gaza since October 2023, according to the UN, according to the Middle East Eye.

Netanyahu also added that his “Arab partners” don’t care about Palestinians, when discussing annexation and surrounding countries’ response.

An Israeli-backed Palestinian militia said it had killed a senior Hamas police officer in the southern Gaza Strip, an incident which Hamas blamed on "Israeli collaborators".

A statement from the Hamas-run interior ministry said gunmen opened fire from a passing car, killing Mahmoud Al-Astal, head of the criminal police unit in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave. It described the attackers as "collaborators with the occupation".

Hussam Al-Astal, leader of an anti-Hamas group based in an area under Israeli control east of Khan Younis, claimed responsibility for the killing in a video he posted on his Facebook page. The surname he shares with the dead man, Al-Astal, is common in that part of Gaza

Israeli occupation forces issued a demolition notice in the village of Issawiya, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, Wafa News Agency reported, citing sources.

Soldiers of the Israeli army, accompanied by personnel from the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem municipality, raided the village of Issawiya and shared demolition notices with the residents.

Palestinian health officials said Sunday that Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, an incident the Israeli military said it was reviewing.

The health ministry in Ramallah said the Palestinian body that coordinates with Israeli authorities had informed it that Israeli fire had killed Shaker Falah Ahmad al Jaabari, 58, on Saturday evening.

The ministry said Israeli forces were still holding Jaabari's body.