Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip — The Israelis are attacking Gauze killed at least 19 Palestinians, most of them women and children, on Wednesday morning, according to hospital officials. Israel said the strikes would continue and called them a response to a militant attack on Israeli soldiers that seriously wounded one.

Among the Palestinians killed were five children, including a five-month-old child and a baby only 10 days old; seven women; and a paramedic, hospital officials said. They were the last Palestinians killed in Gaza since a US-mediated peace planwhich has been punctuated by deadly Israeli attacks, brought the ceasefire into effect on October 10, 2025.

More than 530 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire during that time, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.

The Israel Defense Forces, in a statement issued on Wednesday, accused Hamas militants of a “flagrant violation of the current ceasefire agreement” by allegedly attacking forces in the northern Gaza Strip.

“After identifying the fire, IDF armored units (tanks) and IAF (Israeli Air Force) aircraft carried out strikes in the area,” the military said.

The the increasing number of Palestinian victims tested a US-backed peace plan, and many Palestinians in the Strip say it doesn’t feel like the war is over.

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

An Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with military policy, told The Associated Press that Israel would continue to attack the belt. Since the ceasefire took effect, the Israeli military has defended the deadly attacks by saying it was responding to Hamas violations or militant attacks on its soldiers. The army says four soldiers have been killed since the ceasefire took effect.

Mediators condemned the attacks, and Hamas called them a violation of the agreement.

Early Wednesday, Israeli troops fired on a building in the northern Gaza neighborhood of Tuffah, killing at least 11 people, most of them from the same family, said Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies. Among the dead are two parents, their 10-day-old baby girl, her 5-month-old cousin and their grandmother.

Israel’s military said its aircraft and armored units returned fire after the militants opened fire on troops, seriously wounding a reservist who was evacuated to hospital. Israel called the militant attack a violation of the agreement.

After the Tuffah strike, Israeli fire continued across the Strip, hospital officials said. An Israeli attack on a family’s tent in the southern city of Khan Younis killed three people, including a 12-year-old boy, said Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies. Tank shelling in the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Zaytoun killed three more Palestinians, according to Shifa Hospital, including a husband and his wife.

The 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. Among the dead was Hussein Hassan Hussein al-Semieri, a Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic who was on duty at the time, the hospital said.

More than 71,800 Palestinians have been killed since the war began, according to Gaza’s health ministry, which did not say how many were combatants or civilians. The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty data that UN agencies and independent experts generally consider reliable. They believe the actual death toll is much higher as many bodies have yet to be recovered from the rubble.

Israel disputes the ministry’s figure but has not released figures on civilian casualties in Gaza since it launched a war against Hamas in response to the group’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack that killed about 1,200 Israelis and took 251 hostage.