The Israeli occupation also launched heavy fire targeting Khan Yunis and Rafah, as part of the ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement in effect since October 10, 2025.
Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces carried out "massive" demolition operations east of Khan Younis, while similar demolition operations took place in the northern Gaza Strip, east of Gaza City, in addition to quadcopter drones dropping explosive boxes on what remained of the Palestinian homes in the Jabalia camp.
These operations were accompanied by heavy gunfire from Israeli warships targeting the coasts of the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis, in addition to gunfire from military vehicles stationed east of Khan Yunis.
In the humanitarian context, 40 Palestinians, including women and children, arrived in the Gaza Strip at dawn on Tuesday, as part of the sixth batch of returnees from Egypt via the Rafah crossing after it was reopened on a limited basis, amid strict Israeli restrictions.
Medical sources reported that the returnees arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, noting that the group included 20 patients and 20 companions, some of whom were wounded and had been receiving treatment abroad.
Palestinian Red Crescent Society spokesman Raed Al-Nims explained that the Society’s teams are continuing their mission of evacuating patients from the Gaza Strip, as part of ongoing humanitarian efforts to secure treatment outside the Strip.
The crossing has been open since February 2, but movement remains very limited, contrary to expectations of dozens of patients crossing daily.
Palestinian estimates in Gaza indicate that approximately 22,000 patients and wounded individuals urgently need to leave the Gaza Strip to receive treatment abroad, given the widespread collapse of the health system as a result of the Israeli war of extermination.
Semi-official data indicates that around 80,000 Palestinians have registered to return to Gaza, confirming their attachment to their land and their refusal to be displaced despite the widespread destruction.
Israel was supposed to fully reopen the Rafah crossing during the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, but it reneged on that, according to Palestinian sources.
The war of extermination, which began on October 7, 2023, and lasted for two years, left more than 72,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 171,000 wounded, most of them children and women, in addition to the destruction of about 90% of the civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.
