Israeli Drone Strike Kills Palestinian Near Nuseirat Refugee Camp, Injures Two

Israeli drone fire hit a civilian vehicle west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing 1 Palestinian and injuring 2 others, with the wounded taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah after the strike near Al-Nuwairi Hill.

The Middle East Monitor said an Anadolu Agency correspondent, citing eyewitnesses, reported that the Israeli drone fired at least four missiles at the vehicle and its surroundings, with the second and third missiles targeting people attempting to flee after the initial strike.

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WAFA reported that an Israeli drone fired four missiles at a vehicle on the Wadi Gaza bridge, killing one person and wounding four others, and said the body was transported by Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulance crews to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.

In the same reporting stream, the Middle East Monitor said Israeli ceasefire violations in Gaza have killed 1,098 Palestinians and injured 3,535 others, while WAFA said that since the ceasefire started on October 11 last year, 1,098 people have been killed and 3,535 injured, and 800 bodies recovered.

France 24 reported that Gaza Civil Defense announced on Wednesday the death of three journalists in an Israeli strike carried out in the center of the Palestinian territory despite the ceasefire, and identified them as Anas Ghneim, Mohammed Salah Qashta, and Abdoul Raouf Shaath.

France 24 also quoted an Israeli army statement saying, "Because of the threat the drone posed to the troops, [the Israeli forces] struck precisely the suspects who had activated it."

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Kurdistan24, meanwhile, said the Israeli military announced on Friday that it had killed two Hamas commanders in separate airstrikes in northern Gaza, naming Khalil Jamal Khalil Menaa and Osama Walid Deeb Muhareb.

Kurdistan24 described the Israeli military’s position that the commanders posed a threat to its forces and were eliminated through precision airstrikes, while the Middle East Monitor described continued Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement that has been in force in the Gaza Strip since last October.

Al-منصة said Israeli aircraft targeted an apartment inside a building housing displaced people on Omar al-Mukhtar Street, east of the al-Rimal neighborhood in central Gaza City, killing 10 civilians and wounding more than 20 others, including serious cases.

Al-منصة quoted a displaced resident saying, “We came here and thought an old building is better than tents; we have been living in the building for many months, all of us are civilian displaced families, and suddenly on the first night of Eid, after we had been trying to celebrate and bring joy to our children with the little we have, the army targeted part of the building and the place turned to dust and rubble, and a fire broke out without any warning or alert.”

The same Al-منصة report said Hamas condemned the Israeli raids in a statement posted on its Telegram account, accusing the occupying army of committing crimes against civilians and continuing to violate the ceasefire, and it added that Hamas urged the American administration and the ceasefire guarantor states to intervene.

Al-منصة further warned that the accord faces the risk of collapse due to ongoing crimes and violations, while it said Israel contends that Hamas’s military leadership stands in the way of implementing the disarm Gaza condition before the second phase of the ceasefire reached in Cairo last October.