Gaza: Two Palestinians were killed on Wednesday after an Israeli occupation drone targeted a group of Palestinians on Baghdad Street in the Al Shuja'iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, according to an initial toll reported by local sources.
The sources added that the attack constitutes a new Israeli breach of the ceasefire deal that came into effect between Israel and the Hamas movement last Friday.
The same sources indicated that Israeli occupation forces detained nine Palestinians in the southern enclave while checking on their homes in Al Fukhari town, east of Khan Younis, and 15 others in Al-Nasr town, east of Rafah.
The Palestinian Civil Defense reported that its rescue personnel recovered two Palestinian bodies killed in a previous Israeli bombardment in the Qizan An Najjar area, south of Khan Younis City.
A Palestinian human rights center affirmed that it has monitored 36 Israeli violations of the ceasefire deal in Gaza since last Friday, noting that these breaches resulted in the killing of seven civilians and the wounding of others.
Among the most egregious of these violations was an Israeli bombardment of the Al Shuja'iya neighborhood, which claimed the lives of five civilians, and an airstrike on Al Fukhari town, east of Khan Younis, that resulted in the death of one Palestinian and the injury of another, the Gaza Center for Human Rights reported in a statement.
The statement further indicated that Israeli occupation gunfire and artillery shelling continued in the eastern and northern parts of the Strip, affirming that all these attacks were indefensible and lacked any military imperative.
Israeli occupation forces continue to control humanitarian aid and limit its delivery, the center highlighted, stressing that only 173 trucks out of 1,800 were allowed to enter.
The center outlined that the restriction of humanitarian aid constitutes a continuation of the war of annihilation through starvation and the deliberate deprivation of food and medicine.
Medical sources reported on Tuesday that the death toll from the war Israel has been waging on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, has risen to 67,913, with 170,134 reported wounded.
The sources indicated that among those killed were 44 Palestinians, including 38 whose bodies were retrieved from beneath the rubble, in addition to 29 injured persons who arrived at hospitals across the enclave during the past 24 hours.
The ceasefire deal between the Hamas movement and Israel, which was brokered in the Egyptian city of Sharm El Sheikh, came into effect last Friday following the announcement by the occupation authorities of their government's approval of the deal.
Implementation began with the pullback of Israeli forces from sites and populated areas across the Strip and the return of displaced civilians to the northern part of Gaza, as part of the first phase of US President Donald Trump's initiative to bring an end to the war of annihilation on Gaza.
