A building housing Palestinians in Gaza City that was damaged by previous Israeli strikes collapsed on Wednesday morning, killing more than 20 people.
According to the latest numbers from Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 21 Palestinians, including 12 children and five women, were killed when the building collapsed as they slept.
According to The Associated Press, Zaher al-Wahidi, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, said that rescue workers had finished digging in the rubble for survivors, and at least 14 other people were injured in the collapse.
Many Palestinians live in unsafe buildings that had been damaged by the Israeli bombing campaign, as the US and Israel continue to prevent reconstruction from taking place, a decision made by the two nations and the so-called “Board of Peace.”
The official position of the US and Israel is that reconstruction cannot happen until Hamas gives up its weapons, yet Israel has rejected a US-backed disarmament proposal that Hamas has agreed to, and the IDF continues to launch daily attacks in Gaza in violation of the October 2025 ceasefire deal. The US also continues to back the Israeli strikes despite President Trump calling for the bombing to stop after he announced Hamas agreed to disarm.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that at least two more Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza City on Wednesday. The Health Ministry said in its daily update that since the so-called ceasefire deal was signed about 11 months ago, Israel has killed 1,381 Palestinians and wounded 4,757.
