In Gaza City, medical officials said two airstrikes killed 16 people, including seven children and three women.
Hamas condemned the Israeli strikes as a “shocking massacre” and denied firing toward Israeli troops.
Qatar, a key mediator throughout the two-year war, condemned the “brutal” Israeli airstrikes, saying they were “a dangerous escalation that threatens to undermine the ceasefire agreement”.
On Monday the UN security council endorsed Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, including the deployment of an international stabilisation force and a possible path to a sovereign Palestinian state.
The new violence in Gaza coincided with a barrage of Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.
According to medical officials, Israeli attacks in Gaza have resulted in 33 fatalities and numerous injuries, marking one of the most severe increases in violence since the US-backed ceasefire went into effect last month.
After four Israeli airstrikes targeted tents housing displaced people, officials at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis reported receiving the bodies of 17 people, including five women and five children. According to medical officials in Gaza City, two airstrikes killed sixteen people, including three women and seven children.
Although there are no known casualties, Israel claimed to have initiated the attacks after its soldiers were fired upon in Khan Younis on Wednesday. Hamas denied firing at Israeli troops and denounced the Israeli attacks as a “shocking massacre.”.
Gaza’s Palestinian population claimed that the two-year conflict seemed to go on forever. Since the ceasefire, Israeli strikes have killed more than 300 people, according to local officials.
“Every time we attempt to regain hope, the shelling resumes,” my daughter asked me repeatedly throughout the night. Lina Kuraz, a 33-year-old resident of the Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, asked Agence France-Presse, “When will this nightmare end?”.
The conflict has not ended, according to 36-year-old Mohammed Hamdouna, who was uprooted from northern Gaza and placed in a tent in al-Mawasi. Although the death toll has lessened, shelling and martyrdom continue on a daily basis. We continue to reside in tents. “All the basic necessities of life are still missing, the cities are in ruins, and the crossings are still closed,” he stated.
The “brutal” Israeli airstrikes were denounced by Qatar, a crucial mediator during the two-year conflict, as “a dangerous escalation that threatens to undermine the ceasefire agreement.”.
Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, which calls for the deployment of an international stabilization force and a potential route toward an independent Palestinian state, was approved by the UN Security Council on Monday.
Huge obstacles still exist, though. How Hamas will be forced to give up its weapons, who will provide the troops for the new peacekeeping force, and how “full aid” will get to Gaza without Israel easing many of its present restrictions on humanitarian supplies are all unclear.
After leaving some of their positions at the time of the ceasefire, Israeli military forces now control more than half of Gaza, while Hamas continues to hold the remains of three hostages. The “yellow line” now divides the area.
Since the ceasefire went into effect, the health ministry in Gaza has reported over 300 deaths, or more than seven every day on average. Increasing aid into Gaza and returning hostages—dead or alive—to Israel are two of the terms that each side has accused the other of breaking.
When Hamas-led militants launched a surprise attack into Israel in October 2023, they killed roughly 1,200 people—mostly civilians—and kidnapped 251, setting off the two-year conflict in Gaza. Since the ceasefire, the Israeli offensive and strikes have killed over 69,000 Palestinians, the majority of whom were civilians. Thousands more people’s bodies are still beneath the debris.
Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday coincided with the fresh violence in Gaza. The deadliest Israeli attack on Lebanon since a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict a year ago occurred a day earlier when an Israeli airstrike in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh killed thirteen people.
Reporting was provided by the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse.
