Israeli Drone Strike Kills Palestinian Shepherd Raafat Breika in Rafah

Israeli drone strikes killed Palestinian shepherd Raafat Breika in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Friday, according to medical sources and local witnesses cited by News.Az and Anadolu Ajansı.

“Today, Friday, a Palestinian was martyred as a result of being targeted by a bomb dropped by an Israeli drone in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, at a time when Israeli violations of the ceasefire in force since October 10, 2025 continue”

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Anadolu Ajansı reported that a quadcopter drone dropped a bomb on a shepherd in the Al-Shakoush area west of Rafah, killing him instantly, while Israeli artillery reportedly shelled eastern parts of Khan Younis.

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SANA said the strike occurred northwest of Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip and that the body of a 42-year-old shepherd arrived at Nassar hospital after he was targeted by an Israeli drone in the al-Shakoush area near the “yellow line” northwest of Rafah.

The “yellow line” was described by SANA as an area to which Israeli forces withdrew under a ceasefire agreement in October 2025, covering around 58 percent of the Gaza Strip and considered off-limits to Palestinians.

In the same period, Anadolu Ajansı said Israeli attacks also killed Luay Basal, a 27-year-old Palestinian, in an Israeli bombing east of Gaza City, and it said Israeli drone fire targeted a motorcycle in the Asqoula area of the Zeitoun neighborhood east of Gaza City.

While the ceasefire was described by Anadolu Ajansı as intended to halt Israel’s two-year war, it also said the agreement was accompanied by continued violations, with medical sources and witnesses describing attacks across the Gaza Strip.

Anadolu Ajansı cited Gaza’s Health Ministry saying at least 883 people have been killed and 2,648 others injured in Israeli attacks since the ceasefire announced in October 2025.

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Al Jazeera Net said that since the ceasefire went into effect, 883 Palestinians have been martyred and 2,648 injured, and it tied the figures to a statement from the Ministry of Health.

In a separate account of the same Rafah area, Le Monde reported that Israel was due to begin reopening the Rafah crossing on Sunday, February 1, the day after Israeli airstrikes killed 32 people, “most of whom are children and women,” according to the latest toll released by Civil Defense.

Le Monde quoted Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal saying, "Apartments, tents, shelters and a police station were targeted," and it reported that Hamas condemned the strikes as a "brutal crime."

Beyond the immediate strikes, Le Monde said the Rafah crossing is the only entry and exit point between the Gaza Strip and the outside world not passing through Israel, and it described the crossing as almost hermetically closed since May 2024.

“A Palestinian man was killed on Friday after an Israeli drone strike targeted him in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, according to medical sources and local witnesses”

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Le Monde reported that COGAT warned Israel must reopen the Rafah crossing on Sunday, "in both directions, for a limited movement of people only," and it said a prior security clearance would be required from Israeli authorities to exit and enter the Gaza Strip.

Ouest-France described the Israeli army’s announcement that it had carried out air strikes and "eliminated three terrorists" in the Rafah area near the border crossing with Egypt, and it said the Israeli Air Force targeted and eliminated three after soldiers identified eight terrorists emerging from underground infrastructure.

Al Jazeera Net said a weekly report by the Movement of Crossings and Commercial Border Points recorded 1,287 trucks entering Gaza and only 403 travelers crossing during the week, and it said the report described the travel restrictions as a "deliberate policy to restrict freedom of movement."

The same Al Jazeera Net report said that since the crossing was reopened on February 2 in a highly limited manner, about 700 patients have been able to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment abroad, while more than 18,000 patients and wounded remain awaiting evacuation.