JJP writes to all MPs again about Israel’s continuing attempts to sabotage the Gaza ceasefire
On 2 February, JJP wrote to MPs again about the sharp escalation in Israel’s attempts to sabotage the ceasefire in Gaza. Over two days Israel bombed seven sites, including a police station, a flat, a tent housing a family and a site near an UNRWA school. 32 were killed and another 30 wounded.
We also wrote to selected Peers.
Our letter is below
2 February 2026
Dear MP,
We are writing further to our letter of 26 January.
Israel’s attempts to sabotage the ceasefire in Gaza by near daily lethal attacks have not only continued since we wrote, but have jumped to a new height. On 31 January and early a.m. on 1 February, Israel bombed seven sites, including a police station, a flat, a tent housing a family and a site near an UNRWA school. 32 were killed and another 30 wounded.
The Gaza Ministry of Health (MOH), whose data the Israeli army has recently conceded to be accurate,1 reported that “around a quarter of those killed were children, about a third were women, one was an elderly man and five were officers in the Hamas-run police force.“
“The army said its strikes targeted four commanders in the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups,” as well as military sites. That was “in response to ‘a violation of the ceasefire agreement.’”
The violation, according to the army, was that “eight gunmen emerged from a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Friday. The IDF said at the time that three of the gunmen were killed in strikes and a fourth, described as a key Hamas commander, was captured.”2,
The army’s claim of a ceasefire violation was a blatant lie. As we said in our previous letter, “Ceasefire agreements do not allow one party to kill enemy troops that are stranded on the wrong side of the ceasefire line.” Not only that, the agreement states: “All military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment and targeting operations, will be suspended.”
Even if the ceasefire agreement had allowed the IDF to kill Hamas fighters trapped in the tunnels, their escape would not justify attacking Hamas sites, much less civilian sites such as the flat and the tent.
Excluding the attacks on 29 January and 1 February, 492 Palestinians have now been killed, 1,356 injured, and 715 bodies retrieved from under the rubble since the ceasefire.3
We reiterate that it would be entirely wrong to restart free trade talks with Israel now. Israel would take that, or any normalisation of relations, as proof that it can continue on its present path without suffering consequences.
Arthur Goodman
Parliamentary and Diplomatic Officer
Notes
1. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-believes-70000-gazans-killed-in-war-as-claimed-by-hamas/
3. https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-update-355-gaza-strip
Our letter is below