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‘Relentless, steady’ killing continues despite ceasefire

Last night, as many as five members of a single family – a middle-aged mother, father, their eldest son and their two young children – were killed in a series of attacks concentrated in Khan Younis’s al-Mawasi evacuation zone, an area supposed to be safe for displaced families.

The genocide never really ended. We’ve seen the pace of killing continue. Since the ceasefire took hold [nearly two months ago], only one form of violence ended – the mass bombardment. But relentless, steady killing is still happening. It’s killing despite the ceasefire.

‘Children and women left in pieces’: Witness recalls Israeli attack on al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’

At the site of an Israeli strike on a tented encampment al-Mawasi, a so-called “safe zone” west of the city of Khan Younis, Palestinian survivors are in shock.

“Suddenly, a fire broke out, I looked around and [saw] that it was in our camp,” Jihad Samir al-Arja told the Reuters news agency. “People, children and women were left in pieces. Everyone took part in putting out the fire and the gas canisters and tents that were on fire.”

Al-Arja, 35, expressed anger at the absence of safety even amid a ceasefire, which nominally came into effect on October 10. According to authorities in Gaza, Israeli forces have since violated the ceasefire at least 591 times.

“Where are the mediators? Where are those who sought for a ceasefire? There is nothing, we do not see a ceasefire,” al-Arja said. “Every week there are strikes, assassinations, bombardment and targeting of buildings. We do not see a ceasefire at all.”

Medics at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Khan Younis said they recovered the bodies of five Palestinians, including two children, after the missile attack on Wednesday evening.


Young boys stand at the site where Palestinians were killed on December 3 by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on December 4


Gaza’s living conditions set back 20 years, UNRWA estimates

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said it needs “all possible resources and capacity” to respond to the “immense needs” in Gaza, whose living conditions “are estimated to have fallen back more than 20 years”.

The agency said it is continuing to work “relentlessly” in the enclave and urged for its aid supplies – which it says Israel has not allowed direct entry to Gaza for nine months – to be let in.



That seems a big understatement, no running water, no electricity, no waste services, hardly any gas or food available, people living in tents. Hundred years ago the living conditions were better.

Gaza death toll rises

At least six Palestinians have been killed and 16 others injured in new Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Two bodies were also recovered from the rubble of previous Israeli attacks, the ministry said in a statement published on Telegram.

A total of 366 Palestinians have been killed and 938 injured by Israeli forces in the enclave since the October 10 ceasefire, it said. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza killed 70,125 Palestinians and injured 171,015 others since October 7, 2023, the ministry concluded.