29 Palestinians killed, others injured in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza despite ceasefire
The assault destroyed about 90% of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure, and the UN estimates reconstruction will cost roughly $70 billion, according to reporting by Rania Abushamala in Istanbul. At least 37 Palestinians were killed and several injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, multiple sources reported; the Palestinian Civil Defense said 32 people, including children and women, were killed since dawn Saturday. Among the strikes: - A strike on a residential apartment in the Rimal neighborhood of western Gaza City killed five people, including three children and two women. - A strike on a tent sheltering displaced people in the Asdaa area northwest of Khan Younis killed seven (a man, his three sons and three young grandchildren). - An attack on the Sheikh Radwan police station west of Gaza City killed and injured a number of police personnel; a medical source put the death toll there at 13, including four female officers, and search teams were looking for people trapped under rubble. - Three people were killed in a strike on a house in the al-Nasr neighborhood west of Gaza City; another Palestinian was killed by gunfire east of Jabalia. - Other strikes hit an apartment in al-Tuffah (several injured), al-Jalaa Street and areas east of Bureij refugee camp (no casualties reported), and the administration building of the Ghaith camp in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, which shelters displaced people and suffered extensive damage and fires after an evacuation warning. The Israeli army said it had targeted four members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and infrastructure belonging to the groups. The Gaza media office said on Saturday that the Israeli army killed five Palestinians on Friday and, since a ceasefire took effect in early October, Israeli actions have killed 524 Palestinians, wounded 1,360 and amounted to 1,450 violations. The office also reported that 50 Palestinians have been arrested since the agreement, including from areas far from the “yellow line” and from inside residential neighborhoods. On the humanitarian protocol, Israel has allowed 28,927 of a stipulated 66,600 aid, commercial and fuel truck entries — a 43% compliance rate, the office said. The ceasefire agreement ended a two‑year war that, according to the same figures, killed nearly 71,800 Palestinians and wounded more than 171,400.