Three Palestinian civilians, including a photojournalist, were killed on Tuesday in Israeli strikes on several areas in the Gaza Strip, in another blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement in the besieged enclave, the Palestinian Information Center reported, citing sources.
Media sources confirmed the martyrdom of journalist and photographer Mahmoud Issam Wadi after an Israeli drone fired on an area in central Khan Yunis. Another journalist, Mohammad Abdel Fattah Mohammad Islayyeh, 40, was wounded by shrapnel in the same attack.
Earlier in the day, medical teams reported the martyrdom of Shaker Atef al-Awawda from Al-Bureij refugee camp after he was targeted by an Israeli quadcopter drone east of the camp.
In Gaza City, a young man was shot by an Israeli drone, while civil defense crews evacuated five wounded civilians and dozens of families trapped by Israeli occupation forces’ fire in eastern Gaza, marking yet another violation of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on 10 October.
Gaza’s Civil Defense said its teams successfully rescued five injured individuals, including two women and two children, from the Sanfour Junction area.
The agency added that dozens of families in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood were evacuated overnight after the occupation’s tanks and drones surrounded residential blocks and opened heavy fire.
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli drones fired projectiles that ignited fires in homes near the Sanfour Junction east of Al-Tuffah, as the occupation forces expanded the boundaries of the so-called “yellow line,” which now places more than 53 percent of Gaza’s landmass under Israeli control based on the current agreement.
In the south, the occupation machinery opened fire east of Khan Yunis, while Israeli artillery shelled the city’s eastern areas alongside repeated airstrikes. Israeli aircraft also fired heavily on Rafah City in the early morning hours.
Israeli violations of the ceasefire continue for the 53rd consecutive day, with multiple areas across the Strip experiencing ongoing military escalation.
Since the ceasefire agreement took effect on 10 October, 359 Palestinians have been martyred, most of them women, children and elderly civilians. Another 903 have been wounded in varying degrees.
