Israel Escalates Gaza Demolitions

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Civil defense teams and residents search the rubble after heavy rain caused a residential building to collapse in Gaza. (Photo: via QNN)Civil defense teams and residents search the rubble after heavy rain caused a residential building to collapse in Gaza. (Photo: via QNN)

House Collapse in Maghazi Camp Kills Palestinians

Palestine Chronicle Staff

Jan. 5, 2026

Israeli shelling and demolitions continued across the Gaza Strip as a bombed house collapsed in Maghazi camp, killing and wounding Palestinians.

Several Palestinians were killed and others injured after a house collapsed in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, Al-Jazeera reported on Monday. The building had previously been targeted in an Israeli airstrike.

The correspondent also said that Israeli occupation forces carried out artillery shelling and demolished multiple buildings within their deployment areas south of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. At the same time, Israeli artillery targeted eastern areas of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north.

Israeli forces continued to demolish residential buildings in areas under their control in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City. Artillery shelling and gunfire were also reported in the neighborhoods of Zaytoun and Sheja’iyya, where Israeli forces remain stationed.

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