Friday, February 20, 2026 – The Gaza Strip
General
‣ No casualty data reported in the past 24 hours.
General
1. First Friday of Ramadan.
2. The Lancet estimates that 75,200 residents were killed in the first 15 months of the attack on Gaza, 56.2% of whom were women, children and the elderly, a figure far exceeding the Gaza Health Ministry’s reported death toll of 49,000.
Northern Strip
1. Jabalia refugee camp and town:
‣ Demolition of houses in the camp, to make space for a civil administration headquarters.
‣ Gunshots in Jabalia Al Balad, a child injured.
Gaza City
Central Strip
1. Al Bureij refugee camp:
‣ Gunshots at the east of the camp;
‣ Houses blown up in the east.
2. Gunshots at Al Maghazi refugee camp.
Khan Yunis District
1. East:
‣ Artillery fire on the east of the city;
‣ Houses blown up;
‣ Airstrike
2. West:
‣ Shelling from the sea on the west of the city.
Sources
Addameer, Al Jazeera, Amar Assadi Telegram, BBC, Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Genocide in Gaza, Haaretz, HRANA - Human Rights Activists News Agency, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Jordan Valley Activists, Letters of American healthcare workers who worked in Gaza, Local Call, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Masafering (Outside the Herd), Matan Golan, Middle East Eye, Ministry of Public Health – Gaza, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon, OCHA Lebanon, OCHA OPT, Palestine Datasets, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestinian Health Ministry, Quds News, Reuters, Rosa News, South Hebron Mountain Activists, Ta'ayush, Tasnim News Agency, Tech for Palestine, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), The Washington Post, UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, West Bank Notifications, WHO, yNet, Zirat War



