Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue

At slightest 7 Palestinians killed successful Israeli attacks arsenic subject pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.

An aged pistillate and her lad were among astatine slightest 7 Palestinians killed successful the latest Israeli attacks successful Gaza, arsenic the subject continues to run crossed the “yellow line” ceasefire demarcation.

Health officials reported the killings connected Saturday successful Beit Lahiya, Jabalia, and Zeitoun, including a 70-year-old pistillate and her son, who were hunted down and killed by a drone successful Gaza City.

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The Israeli subject said it killed 3 radical successful abstracted incidents, claiming they had crossed the “yellow line” – an unmarked bound wherever the Israeli subject repositioned itself erstwhile the ceasefire with Hamas came into effect connected October 10.

However, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said the pistillate and her lad were chased by a quadcopter drone astir 1 kilometre [half a mile] from the yellowish enactment and “left determination to bleed to death” arsenic the craft continued hovering overhead, preventing anyone from reaching them.

He described the incidental arsenic “just 1 of galore violations passim the time and passim the past 50 days” since the truce came into effect.

He added that successful areas adjacent to the yellowish line, galore Palestinians may unwittingly transverse the bound due to the fact that it is not visible.

“There are nary wide markings oregon signage to amusement this is the ceasefire demarcation that is simply a restricted and unsafe area,” helium said.

Elsewhere successful Gaza connected Saturday, Israeli forces demolished residential buildings and nationalist infrastructure successful the Shujayea territory eastbound of Gaza City, launching a large battle with tanks, onslaught drones, and crushed troops that forced Palestinians to flee, Al Jazeera correspondents reported.

The subject has begun erecting soil barriers that isolate the eastbound portion of the city, and Israeli forces person besides pushed tanks and armoured vehicles 300 to 500 metres (985- 1,640 feet) beyond the yellowish enactment adjacent Salah al-Din Street successful occidental Gaza City.

Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said astatine the Doha Forum connected Saturday that the Gaza ceasefire is astatine a “critical moment” and was astatine hazard of falling isolated without a renewed propulsion towards uncovering a imperishable extremity to the war.

Also astatine the Doha Forum, Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs authoritative Manal Radwan said, “We don’t spot that we person a spouse for peace. Not adjacent a spouse for a sustainable ceasefire.”

The killings connected Saturday bring the decease toll since the October ceasefire to astatine slightest 367 Palestinians, with 953 wounded and 624 bodies recovered from rubble, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

UNICEF said 70 children were among those killed.

Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation successful Gaza is intensifying arsenic wintertime sets in.

On Saturday, Israeli quality rights radical B’Tselem said Israel’s restrictions connected aid, including wintertime essentials, person near children successful summertime covering and barefoot successful the acold aft storms destroyed 13,000 tents past month.

The radical said this represents “a nonstop effect of Israeli argumentation and planetary silence”.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 1 successful 4 households is eating lone a azygous repast daily, portion 10 percent went an full time without nutrient astatine slightest erstwhile successful the past month.

OCHA said humanitarian operations besides stay critically underfunded, with lone 40 percent of the $4bn entreaty met for radical successful Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Elsewhere, 8 Muslim-majority nations, including Egypt and Qatar, released a connection rejecting Israel’s program to marque the Rafah crossing one-way for Palestinians leaving Gaza, informing it would interruption the US-brokered bid woody and hazard enabling forced displacement.

At slightest 1.9 cardinal radical – astir 90 percent of Gaza’s colonisation – person been displaced during the war, according to the UN.