Friday, February 20, 2026 – The Gaza Strip
- Adi Ronen Argov
- Feb 20
- 2 min read
‣ 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
1. East:
‣ Airstrike on Al Tuffah;
‣ Houses blown up;
‣ Gunshots in the east.
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, Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Genocide in Gaza, Haaretz, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), HRANA-Human Rights Activists News Agency, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Jordan Valley Activists (Media groups), Letters of American healthcare workers who worked in Gaza, Local Call, OCHA OPT, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Masafering (Outside the Herd), Middle East Eye, Ministry of Public Health – Gaza, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon, Palestinian Health Ministry, Palestine Datasets, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Quds News, South Hebron Mountain Activists (Media groups), Ta’ayush, Tasnim News Agency, Tech for Palestine, UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, The Washington Post, WHO, yNet, Zirat War.
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