‘Ceasefire on paper’: Child casualties continue amid continued Israeli attacks
Over the past two years, we can’t recall a day without reporting on children arriving at hospitals, either critically injured or pronounced dead from bomb sites. On a daily basis, the number of child casualties keeps increasing.
If we look at the past month or so over the course of this ceasefire, and a lot of people we talk to tell us this ceasefire only exists on paper, because on the ground, a number of children are being killed or injured, and that increases the pressure on how they’re managing their lives.
According to a UNICEF report, every day at least two children are being killed. We’re talking about a period in which there is supposed to be calm, but this keeps happening.
Palestinian Civil Defence asks for excavators to search for missing Palestinians in Gaza
Mahmoud Basal, the spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defence, has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that the agency is requesting 20 excavators to support search and recovery efforts for missing Palestinian bodies in the enclave.
The planned search effort today has been paused, it added, after its crew came under attack by Israeli forces.
n addition to more than 69,000 people killed in Gaza during the war, thousands more are missing and presumed dead beneath rubble, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Hamas accuses Israel of advancing beyond yellow line in Gaza
The Palestinian group has accused Israel of moving the so-called yellow line and advancing westwards in Gaza, in breach of the ceasefire agreement last month.
Israel has controlled more than half of Gaza since the October 10 truce.
Hamas called on international mediators and the US to intervene to make Israel comply with the agreement, adding that it rejects “a fait accompli that contradicts what was agreed upon”.
Gaza death toll since ceasefire rises to 318
The death toll in Gaza since the October 10 ceasefire began has risen to 318 after seven more bodies were brought to hospitals across the enclave in the past 48 hours. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that 30 people were also wounded in the last two days, bringing the total number of injured since the ceasefire to 788.
Numerous victims remain trapped under rubble and in streets where ambulance and Civil Defence teams cannot reach them, the ministry said.
