The Daily File

So that we won't say we didn't know

Adi Ronen Argov2 min read

Monday, April 20, 2026 – The Gaza Strip

General

1. Over the past 24 hours, 209 trucks entered the Gaza Strip: 82 carrying goods and 125 aid trucks.

Casualties

Over the past 24 hoursSince October 11, 2025Since October 7, 2023
Killed277772,553
Injured232,193172,296
Bodies retrieved761

Northern Strip

1. Fire toward the Al Falouja area.

2. Fire near the Indonesian hospital in Jabalia refugee camp (hospital closed).

Gaza City

1. East:

‣ Illumination flares over the eastern part of the city.

2. South:

‣ Bombing at the Dawla junction in Al Zeitoun neighborhood; one killed and several injured.

‣ Fire broke out in displacement tents following Israeli artillery fire.

3. West:

‣ Airstrike; injured reported.

Central Strip

1. Al Bureij refugee camp:

‣ Artillery fire on the eastern part of the camp;

‣ Helicopter fire; one killed and injured reported.

Khan Yunis District

1. East:

‣ Artillery fire;

‣ Fire east of Khan Yunis.

2. Center:

‣ Exchange of fire between Hamas operatives and “collaborators” with Israel. Israeli forces intervened to secure the withdrawal of the “collaborators.”

Rafah District

1. Fire toward displacement tents in Al Mawasi Rafah; one killed - a woman in her seventh month of pregnancy.

2. Artillery fire on Rafah.


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