Israeli attack on Gaza City kills 4 Palestinians
An Israeli attack targeting a vehicle in Gaza City’s Remal neighbourhood has killed four people and injured others, the local ambulance service tells Al Jazeera.
It’s been a bloody few minutes in the past hour. A vehicle was struck by drone missiles, killing five people in the heart of Gaza City. There are seven critically injured Palestinians, including children, at al-Shifa Hospital, which is acutely short of medical supplies.
This attack occurred in an area for displaced families who have returned recently after the ceasefire. This happened not far from where we’re reporting, just a couple of hundred metres away. It’s a busy area with lots of street vendors, and many people were passing by when the attack happened, maximising the number of casualties.
The bombing occurred without any warning. It caught everyone here off guard and created a lot of panic and fear that this could be the beginning of more strikes. We’re hearing the sounds of constant explosions in the east of the city.
Palestinian boys inspect a destroyed vehicle targeted by the Israeli military in Gaza City on Saturday
Israel demolishes homes in Gaza City, displacing hundreds
Palestinian Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal says Israel expanded the yellow line buffer zone by 250 metres (820 feet) following the ceasefire announcement, pushing families into areas lacking basic necessities.
People are now crowded into areas inside Gaza City without public services. The cold weather threatens to create additional challenges that could endanger residents’ lives without urgent intervention, Basal said.
Death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza rises to 10
Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 10 people since dawn, according to sources on the ground.
These include five who were killed when their vehicle was struck in Gaza City, and four others, including children, who were killed when their home was attacked in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.
Four children killed in Israeli missile attack on Nuseirat camp
It’s getting scarier here. Judging by the pattern and pace of Israeli drones flying above this area, it looks like they are suicide drones, better known as kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicles.
An attack was carried out by a drone in the heart of Gaza City at a junction not far from the main gate of al-Shifa Hospital – a bustling area where at least four people were killed when they were struck inside their vehicle.
A few minutes later, there was another attack in the central city of Deir el-Balah, where two people were killed and, simultaneously, a missile strike by a jet hit the Nuseirat refugee camp, targeting a residential home, killing four children.
About a dozen Palestinians have been wounded in Israeli bombardment across the Strip just in the past hour. These attacks happened without any warning, confirming what people here have expressed over and over – that the ceasefire exists only on paper with Israel constantly violating the US-brokered truce.
An injured child is brought to al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza after Israeli bombardment on Saturday
