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Israeli strikes kill five in Gaza, health officials say

Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed five Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, health officials said, the latest violence to undermine a four-month-old, U.S.-brokered truce in the enclave. In Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, an airstrike killed two people who were riding an electric bike, medics said.

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Israeli strikes kill five in Gaza, health officials say

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Feb 10, 2026 19:30
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Feb 10, 2026 19:30

Mourners attend the funeral of Palestinians, who, according to medics, were killed by an Israeli strike on Monday, in Gaza City, Feb 10, 2026. Photo : REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed five Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, health officials said, the latest violence to undermine a four-month-old, U.S.-brokered truce in the enclave.

In Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, an airstrike killed two people who were riding an electric bike, medics said. Later, Israeli drone fire killed a woman in Deir Al-Balah and troops shot dead a man in Khan Younis in the south, they said.

Another man was killed by Israeli gunfire in Jabalia in north Gaza, Palestinian medics said.

The violence came a day after Israeli forces killed four militants in the southern city of Rafah after they emerged from an underground tunnel and opened fire on troops.

Without commenting directly on the four people killed on Tuesday, the Israeli military said it had carried out attacks targeting what it described as Hamas militants in response to Monday’s incident in Rafah.

In Gaza City, dozens of Palestinians rallied at the funerals of three people who were killed by an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the area on Monday night.

One body was wrapped in a Hamas green flag, while another had a green Hamas ribbon on his forehead, signaling that the two were members of the militant group.

Reuters was not able to ascertain the identities of those killed.

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Israel and Hamas have repeatedly traded blame for violations of the ceasefire deal, a key element of US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Gaza war, the deadliest and most destructive in the generations-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The next phase of Trump’s plan involves Hamas disarming, Israel withdrawing its troops from Gaza, and the deployment of an international peacekeeping force. Hamas has long rejected calls to lay down its arms and Israeli officials say they are preparing for a return to full-scale war.

At least 580 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the October ceasefire deal was struck, Gaza’s health ministry says. Israel says four soldiers have been killed by militants in Gaza over the same period.

The Gaza war started with the Oct 7, 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel that killed more than 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies. Israel’s air and ground war in Gaza has killed more than 72,000 people since then, according to Palestinian health ministry data.​

 

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Indonesia says proposed Gaza peacekeeping force could total 20,000 troops

A proposed multinational peacekeeping force for Gaza could total about 20,000 troops, with Indonesia estimating it could contribute up to 8,000, President Prabowo Subianto’s spokesman said on Tuesday. The spokesman said, however, that no deployment terms or areas of operation had been agreed

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Indonesia says proposed Gaza peacekeeping force could total 20,000 troops

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Published :
Feb 10, 2026 16:47
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Feb 10, 2026 16:47

Israeli military vehicles drive past destruction in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border in southern Israel, January 21, 2026. Photo : REUTERS/Amir Cohen/Files

A proposed multinational peacekeeping force for Gaza could total about 20,000 troops, with Indonesia estimating it could contribute up to 8,000, President Prabowo Subianto’s spokesman said on Tuesday.

The spokesman said, however, that no deployment terms or areas of operation had been agreed.

Prabowo has been invited to Washington later this month for the first meeting of US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace. The Southeast Asian country last year committed to ready 20,000 troops for deployment for a Gaza peacekeeping force, but it has said it is awaiting more details about the force's mandate before confirming deployment.

"The total number is approximately 20,000 (across countries) ... it is not only Indonesia," presidential spokesman Prasetyo Hadi told journalists on Tuesday, adding that the exact number of troops had not been discussed yet but Indonesia estimated it could offer up to 8,000.

"We are just preparing ourselves in case an agreement is reached and we have to send peacekeeping forces," he said.

Prasetyo also said there would be negotiations before Indonesia paid the $1 billion being asked for permanent membership of the Board of Peace. He did not clarify who the negotiations would be with, and said Indonesia had not yet confirmed Prabowo's attendance at the board meeting.

Separately, Indonesia's defence ministry also denied reports in Israeli media that the deployment of Indonesian troops would be in Gaza's Rafah and Khan Younis.

"Indonesia's plans to contribute to peace and humanitarian support in Gaza are still in the preparation and coordination stages," defence ministry spokesman Rico Ricardo Sirat told Reuters in a message.

"Operational matters (deployment location, number of personnel, schedule, mechanism) have not yet been finalised and will be announced once an official decision has been made and the necessary international mandate has been clarified," he added.​

 

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Palestinian leader urges Israel to lift Gaza ceasefire ‘obstacles’

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on Saturday for the removal of ‘all obstacles’ he said Israel has imposed on implementing phase two of the Gaza ceasefire.

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Palestinian leader urges Israel to lift Gaza ceasefire ‘obstacles’
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Displaced Palestinian nurse, 23-year-old Dalia Taha Abu Zarifa, speaks with children outside tents housing displaced families, as she makes her way to attend to patients who cannot make daily visits to a hospital, in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. | AFP photo

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on Saturday for the removal of ‘all obstacles’ he said Israel has imposed on implementing phase two of the Gaza ceasefire.

‘We emphasise the need to lift all obstacles imposed by the Israeli occupation on the implementation of the provisions related to the second phase of the agreement,’ Abbas said, in a speech read by his prime minister Mohammed Mustafa at an African Union summit in Ethiopia.

This included the work of a technocratic committee established to oversee the daily governance of Gaza, he added. Removal of the obstacles was needed to ‘ensure continuity of services, coordinate humanitarian efforts and enable a swift recovery’, the president said.

Abbas accused Israel of ‘continuing to violate’ the ceasefire agreement with Palestinian militant group Hamas that took effect in October and was backed by the United States.

‘From the announcement of the ceasefire until today, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed [in Gaza], which threatens the durability of the truce and the full implementation of its second phase,’ he added.

Even though the US-brokered truce entered its second phase last month, violence has continued in the Palestinian territory, with Israel and Hamas trading blame.

The deal is aimed at permanently ending the Gaza war and was endorsed in November by the United Nations.

The second phase stipulates that Israeli forces gradually withdraw from Gaza and Hamas should disarm, with an international stabilisation force deployed to ensure security. Hamas has repeatedly said that disarmament is a red line, although it has indicated it could consider handing over its weapons to a future Palestinian governing authority.

The Israeli army still controls more than half of the Gaza Strip, while Hamas and Israel accuse each other daily of ceasefire violations.

Fifteen Palestinian experts on the technocratic committee, which is being overseen by a ‘Board of Peace’ set up by US president Donald Trump, are currently based in Egypt, despite a partial reopening on February 2 of the Rafah border crossing, Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world that does not lead to Israel.

Nickolay Mladenov, a Bulgarian diplomat whom Trump named high representative for Gaza, said on Friday that ‘a number of conditions need to be met’ before technocratic committee members can enter the Palestinian territory.

‘One, Hamas needs to transfer the civilian control of the institutions in Gaza,’ he told a discussion on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

‘This is not a government coming in after an election. This is far much more complicated,’ he said.

‘Because Hamas has been governing Gaza for 20 years and... implementing policies that are not in line with Palestinian legislation,’ he added.

Other conditions he mentioned included ending Gaza ceasefire violations and ‘a radical increase in the assistance to people, aid going into Gaza’.

‘And finally, we need to make sure that we have the framework agreed in place on the decommissioning of weapons in Gaza,’ Mladenov said, emphasising the importance of the future role of a Palestinian security force.

He said the International Stabilisation Force for the territory—set out under the Trump plan to end the war—’is extremely important’.

‘But far more important than the ISF is the new Palestinian security force that should be deployed in Gaza, that should be able to secure the ground with the assistance of the ISF,’ he added.​