Live: At least 74 children killed in Gaza in first week of 2025

Earlier on Tuesday, four children were killed in an Israeli bombing on the area of Mawasi, near Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip.

Now, a fifth child was killed in the attacks, according to several reports.

Several reports said that Israeli forces on Tuesday launched an attack near the Bilal Mosque in Gaza City, killing at least five Palestinians and wounding several others.

At least 49 Palestinians in Gaza were killed by Israeli attacks on Tuesday, Al Jazeera reported, citing medical sources.

This includes four children who were killed in an Israeli bombing of a tent sheltering displaced people in al-Mawasi, an area west of Khan Younis that was previously designated a humanitarian zone by Israel.

Israeli forces on Tuesday arrested two Palestinian citizens from occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

The two Palestinians were identified as Maram and Hasniya Firawi, and the cause of arrest is not clear.

Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's appointee for Middle East envoy, said “a lot of progress” was made in the ongoing talks around reaching a Gaza ceasefire deal.

“I don’t want to say too much because I think they’re doing a really good job back in Doha. I’m leaving tomorrow back… to Doha,” he said at a press conference held by Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Tuesday.

“I think that we’ve had some … really great progress, and I’m really hopeful that by the inaugural, we’ll have some good things to announce on behalf of the president.”

Trump warned that there will be "hell to pay" if a deal isn't reached before he enters office.

Israeli forces launched additional attacks on Gaza on Tuesday, killing several more Palestinians.

In Jabalia, at least five Palestinians were killed and 20 wounded in an Israeli raid on a residence.

And in Khan Younis, Israeli forces bombed a vehicle and killed three Palestinians.

Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli forces bombed al-Mawasi, an area in Gaza west of Khan Younis. The bombing caused a fire to break out.

Now, Palestinian news outlets are reporting that at least four children were killed in the attack.

After Israeli forces bombed a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Mawasi area of Gaza, a fire broke out in the area, according to several Palestinian news reports.

The Palestinian news outlet Wafa reported on Tuesday that Israeli attacks on the Shaghaf and Tuffah neighbourhoods of Gaza City killed at least eight people.

In Shaghaf, at least five people were killed by a drone, while in Tuffah three people were killed in a bombing attack.

Ireland has formally filed an intervention in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) genocide case against Israel, joining South Africa and others.

The country said it would be joining the case last month, saying it would ask the ICJ to "broaden its interpretation of what constitutes the commission of genocide by a State".

South Africa's case argues the war in Gaza breached the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, an accusation Israel has strongly denied.

Israeli settlers set ablaze property across the occupied West Bank on Monday in the latest rampage against Palestinian towns and villages. 

Under the protection of Israeli forces, crowds of settlers launched attacks near the village of al-Funduq near Qalqilya, the site of a shooting earlier on Monday that left three Israeli settlers dead.

Attacks extended to a few villages east of the city, including Hajja, Farata and Immatin, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.  

Settlers set fire to a vehicle, threw stones, damaged homes, destroyed crops, threw flammable material at an uninhabited building and even burned a bulldozer in one of the villages. 

Read more: Israeli settlers rampage through Palestinian villages, setting vehicles on fire

Hamas confirmed the death of a commander in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.

Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, confirmed Jaafar Dababshe was killed by Israeli forces near Nablus.

Dababshe died in “a cowardly assassination operation he was subjected to in the village of Wadi al-Badhan in Nablus”, the group said in a statement.

“The Qassam Brigades recalls the journey of its martyred leader who had many battles and rounds in confronting the Zionist enemy."

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has accused Israel of flouting international commitments under Resolution 1701, stressing that the burden of adherence lies not just with Lebanon but also with Israel.

“We have conveyed a clear message to the sponsors of the ceasefire agreement: Israel must end its violations and withdraw from Lebanese territory,” Mikati stated, referring to the UN Security Council resolution that underpins the cessation of hostilities between the two nations, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

Mikati emphasised that implementing Resolution 1701 is a shared responsibility and warned Israel against continuing to undermine the ceasefire. “Commitment to the resolution is not Lebanon’s obligation alone; it is equally binding on the Israeli enemy,” he said.

Tragedy is a relentless visitor in Gaza. Murder is no longer a surprise, but an expectation, even a norm - a vicious certainty in the beat of life under genocide. 

But even in its normalisation, the loss of a loved one cuts deeply, leaving wounds that words struggle to convey. 

The case of my aunt's neighbour, Imad Kaskin, killed in the ruins of a life displaced, is not an anomaly, but just one painful thread in Gaza’s tapestry of grief, where lives are erased amid global silence.

Until his death last month, 35-year-old Imad was a young man with a great sense of humour; one willing to give away what little he had, even though he was among the poorest of the poor. With his wife, Hadeel, and their two daughters, eight-year-old Retaj and six-year-old Dana, Imad lived with the quiet dignity of those who have mastered the art of endurance, what Palestinians call sumud.

In Gaza sumud takes on a million shapes and forms - shapes I doubt any other nation could imagine or has even known.

Read more: Imad was killed in search of food for his kids. How much grief must Gaza families bear?

Israeli authorities have extended the closure of Al Jazeera’s office in the occupied West Bank.

The move occured just days after the Palestinian Authority also decided to follow Israel's example and suspended the network’s broadcasts for four months.

Israeli soldiers delivered the latest 45-day closure notice to the entrance of the building housing Al Jazeera’s Ramallah office, continuing a ban first imposed in September.

At that time, troops stormed the premises and ordered staff out, telling them to collect their personal belongings.