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Ceasefire, then strikes
The Civil Defense of the Gaza Strip said Israeli bombardments had killed 12 people since dawn on Sunday, despite the very fragile ceasefire in place between Israel and Hamas since October 10.
“In the night from Saturday to Sunday, March 15, four members of the Bani Odeh family, two boys aged 5 and 6 and their parents, were killed by Israeli security forces as they were returning to their hometown of Tammoun, a town of about 15,000 inhabitants”
Civil Defense said one bombardment targeted at dawn a tent sheltering displaced people in the Jabalia area in northern Gaza, killing five, and another strike also killed five in Khan Younis in the southern part of the territory.
Al-Chifa Hospital in Gaza City and Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis confirmed they had received seven bodies, while Ossama Abu Askar told AFP, whose nephew was killed, "Israel does not understand what a ceasefire or a truce is."
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem accused the army of violating the truce, saying in a statement, "Targeting displaced people in their tents is a grave violation of the ceasefire agreement."
Israeli justification and mourning
The Israeli army said it had responded to a "flagrant violation" of the ceasefire by Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, February 15, and it said it carried out bombardments after identifying "several armed militants who were taking cover under debris" near Israeli soldiers.
The army added that these men had crossed the Yellow Line, the boundary of the area still occupied by Israeli troops since the ceasefire was implemented, while AFP reported restrictions imposed on the media in Gaza and difficulties of access on the ground.
Ossama Abu Askar described the pattern of strikes during the ceasefire, telling AFP, "We have lived under a truce for months, but they strike us, they say one thing and do another,".
In Khan Younis, dozens of Palestinians gathered at Nasser Hospital to mourn their relatives killed, their bodies wrapped in white shrouds, according to footage filmed by AFP.
West Bank law and Gaza war
In the occupied West Bank, the Israeli Parliament adopted on March 30 a law establishing 'the death penalty for terrorists,' tailor-made to spare Israelis—primarily settlers—and to apply only to Palestinians found guilty of deadly anti-Israeli attacks.
“Home Published April 6, 2026 at 1:06 PM Print article Share the article on Facebook Share the article on Twitter By voting in the Knesset for a law imposing the death penalty specifically for Palestinians, the Netanyahu government, in the wake of the far right, committed five cardinal sins: moral, legal, political, democratic, and strategic”
Marianne quoted opposition MP Ram Ben Barak, a former deputy head of Mossad, saying in the Knesset, "Do you understand, he asked, what it means that there is a law for the Arabs of Judea-Samaria (West Bank), and a different law for Israeli citizens?"
The same article frames the bill as discriminatory and says the Supreme Court should invalidate the law, while it also argues that "Voting for a text designed by the far right reviving the death penalty is not trivial: it is a shame."
In the Gaza Strip, the Civil Defense account of the ceasefire period sits alongside the claim that a total of 601 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the truce, according to the Gaza Health Ministry under Hamas authority and whose figures the UN regards as reliable.
