Spate of attacks on Gaza show Israel’s war never ended
The latest deadly attacks happened during rush hour for many displaced families trying to get to bakeries and street markets to pick up whatever goods they’re able to find before returning to the displacement sites.
In a span of two hours, at least 22 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes. These people were inside their cars, inside shelters, inside whatever is left of their homes.
This is a reminder that Israeli army violence has never ended despite the six-week-old US-brokered ceasefire.
What was going on at a very fast pace over the past two years has now turned into this slow, steady pattern of killing. This is traumatising for people here who would never have predicted the latest attack would happen in this location in the heart of Gaza City.
Children look at a destroyed vehicle targeted by the Israeli military in Gaza City on Saturday
Sewage-contaminated floodwater affects 740,000 displaced in Gaza
Flooding from recent heavy rains has destroyed thousands of tents and makeshift shelters across the Gaza Strip, worsening already dire living conditions for displaced Palestinians.
The UN and aid agencies say more winter supplies, shelter materials, and fuel must be allowed into Gaza urgently as sewage-contaminated floodwater has inundated camps, affecting more than 740,000 people across 715 displacement sites.
Humanitarian access remains heavily restricted by Israeli forces. Repair crews have been unable to fix the damaged main fibre line near the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing for weeks, it said, raising fears of a full communications blackout that could halt relief operations.
Food access shows modest improvement, but dietary diversity remains extremely poor, with one in four households eating only one meal a day. About 93 percent of Gaza’s school buildings have been damaged and cannot reopen without major reconstruction.
A boy walks through a puddle of sewage water in Jabalia camp
Hamas warns of ceasefire collapse after more deadly Israeli strikes
A senior Hamas official says it has informed mediators of its growing anger over ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza despite the group’s adherence to the US-brokered truce.
“We asked the mediators to intervene immediately to prevent the collapse of the agreement as the occupation intends,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Al Jazeera.
In a statement the group added: “The systematic Zionist violations of the agreement have resulted in the martyrdom of hundreds due to ongoing raids and killings under fabricated pretexts. These violations have also led to changes in the occupation army’s withdrawal lines, contravening the agreed-upon maps.”
Israeli air raids struck several areas across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 20 Palestinians and wounding dozens more in the latest breach of the six-week old ceasefire.
