‘Violence never ended’: Israeli attacks kill 22 Palestinians in Gaza

Fear grips Palestinians crossed the Gaza Strip arsenic Israel continues to transportation retired attacks contempt US-brokered truce.

More than 20 Palestinians person been killed successful Israeli attacks crossed the Gaza Strip, successful the latest escalation contempt a truce that was meant to enactment an extremity to Israel’s two-year battle connected the enclave.

At slightest 22 Palestinians, including children, were killed connected Saturday, aesculapian sources told Al Jazeera, arsenic the Israeli subject carried retired strikes successful Gaza City and successful cardinal Gaza’s Deir el-Balah and Nuseirat exile camp.

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Dozens of radical were besides wounded successful the question of attacks.

“This is simply a reminder that the ceasefire is rather fragile, and successful fact, [that the] unit ne'er ended astatine all,” Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza City.

Noting that hundreds of Palestinians person been killed since the United States-brokered ceasefire woody betwixt Israel and Hamas came into effect connected October 10, Mahmoud said fearfulness continues to grip Gaza.

Israel has killed at slightest 318 Palestinians and injured 788 others since the truce began past month, according to the latest figures from the Palestinian Health Ministry successful Gaza.

“What was going astatine a precise accelerated gait successful the past fewer years has present turned into this dilatory and dependable signifier of killing,” Mahmoud said.

On Saturday, the Israeli subject said it was targeting Hamas aft its troops came nether onslaught adjacent the so-called yellowish line, wherever the service remains stationed successful Gaza.

A connection from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bureau besides said 5 elder Hamas members were killed. The Palestinian radical did not instantly remark connected that claim.

Hamas condemned the latest Israeli attacks arsenic portion of Israel’s “systematic” violations of the ceasefire agreement, which it said person killed Palestinians nether “fabricated pretexts”.

It besides said Israel has pushed westward beyond the yellowish line, changing the bound acceptable retired arsenic portion of the deal.

“We telephone upon the mediators to intervene urgently and exert unit to instantly halt these violations,” the Palestinian radical said successful a statement.

“We besides request that the US medication fulfill its commitments and compel [Israel] to instrumentality its obligations, and to face its attempts to undermine the ceasefire successful Gaza.”

West Bank attacks

Meanwhile, much Israeli subject and settler unit was reported connected Saturday successful the occupied West Bank amid what the United Nations has described arsenic a record-breaking surge successful attacks connected Palestinians.

The Palestinian quality bureau Wafa said Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian farmers southeast of Masafer Yatta, successful the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills area.

Separately, Wafa said Israeli soldiers besides wounded 2 Palestinians during a raid successful Dura, a municipality southbound of Hebron.

Israeli attacks successful the West Bank person accrued successful the shadiness of Israel’s warfare connected Gaza, which has killed astir 70,000 Palestinians successful the coastal enclave since October 2023.

They besides travel arsenic members of Israel’s far-right authorities propulsion to formally annex the territory.

Last week, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights noted that 260 Israeli settler attacks were recorded successful October – much than successful immoderate period since 2006.

“The surge successful unit comes arsenic Israeli authorities person ramped up location demolitions, the seizure of property, arrests, and question restrictions, alongside the unabated gathering of settlements and outposts and the forcible displacement and transportation of thousands of Palestinians by Israeli settlers and the military,” Thameen Al-Kheetan said successful a statement.

“Permanently displacing the Palestinian colonisation wrong occupied territory amounts to unlawful transfer, which is simply a warfare crime. The transportation by Israel of parts of its ain civilian colonisation into the territory it occupies besides amounts to a warfare crime.”