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Strikes Kill Children
Israeli fire and drone strikes hit Gaza City and central Gaza on Sunday, killing at least six Palestinians including a 9-year-old girl, according to local health officials cited by AP in Deir al-Balah.
“Toggle Play Deadly Israeli strikes pound Gaza Israel’s military has attacked several places across Gaza, with Palestinians filming flames and smoke rising over Gaza City as a nine-year-old girl was killed by Israeli gunfire in central Gaza”
In Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood, a drone strike on a blacksmith shop killed at least four Palestinians, and the Israeli military acknowledged striking the area, saying it targeted “terrorist infrastructure,” without elaborating.
Roughly an hour after Palestinians received an evacuation order, intense airstrikes targeted the same blacksmith shop, while Israeli gunfire also killed 9-year-old Tala Abu Matar in a displacement camp in central Gaza, the AP said.
The Times of Israel reported that Israeli gunfire directed at a tent encampment on the eastern side of the Al-Bureij refugee camp hit Tala Abu Matar, and that she “succumbed to her wounds” and was taken to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital.
The Times of Israel also said the military carried out a large strike in the Sabra area of Gaza City Sunday afternoon, which it said hit a makeshift weapons production site and that witnesses said the site was hit with three missiles.
Claims, Counterclaims
The AP account said the Israeli military later struck a Hamas weapon production site after acknowledging the Sabra neighborhood attack as targeting “terrorist infrastructure,” while Palestinians received an evacuation order following the first strikes.
In a separate report, The Times of Israel said the IDF claimed it bombed the Sabra site as Hamas operatives were working there, and that “The manufacturing site was struck while several Hamas terrorists were operating inside it,” according to the military.
Hamas and other Palestinian factions condemned ongoing Israeli airstrikes in a statement on its Telegram account, accusing the occupation army of “committing crimes against civilians and continuing to violate the ceasefire agreement,” according to The Platform.
The Platform also quoted a displaced resident on Omar al-Mukhtar Street, east of the Al-Rimal neighborhood, saying, “We came here and thought an old building is better than the tents; we’ve been in the building for months now,” before describing the strike and fire without warning.
Sky News Arabia reported that Israel’s army announced on Sunday that its forces killed two Hamas field commanders in the Gaza Strip, naming Mohammad Najib Ashour and Tamer Said Abu Nakhl, and quoting the army that the two operatives “posed a direct threat to the soldiers” before they were targeted.
Ceasefire Phase at Risk
The AP said negotiations between Israel and Hamas remain largely deadlocked over the implementation of the ceasefire’s second phase, including the disarmament of Hamas and the reconstruction of Gaza, while most of the population of over 2 million people remains displaced.
“Israeli occupying forces' aircraft targeted a residential apartment inside a building that houses displaced people on Omar al-Mukhtar Street, east of the Al-Rimal neighborhood in central Gaza City, with at least one missile, killing 10 people and wounding more than 20 others, including several in serious condition, according to a medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital for The Platform”
In The Platform’s account of an Israeli strike on a building housing displaced people on Omar al-Mukhtar Street, it said the strike killed 10 people and wounded more than 20 others, citing a medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital for The Platform.
The Platform reported that Hamas warned the agreement faces collapse due to ongoing crimes and violations, and called on the American administration and the ceasefire guarantor countries to intervene and condemn Israeli violations.
Asharq Al-Awsat described Israel as reinstating a mechanism used during escalation rounds by pressuring Hamas and Palestinian factions and destroying homes after forcing residents to flee, and it said Israel controlled about 60 percent of the Strip’s area lying east of the virtual yellow line.
Sky News Arabia added that Israel’s army said it killed two Hamas field commanders while claiming forces remained deployed “in accordance with the ceasefire,” even as it said Israel continues to shell the Gaza Strip almost routinely.
