The Gaza Government Media Office said Israel violated the U.S.-brokered ceasefire at least 497 times over the past 44 days, killing 342 civilians, with children, women, and the elderly said to make up the majority of the casualties.
In Saturday’s ceasefire violation, in which Israel killed 23 Palestinians, those killed were mainly from a single family: the Abu Shawish family.
Israeli forces destroyed the Shawish family from Al-Nusairat camp completely, with those killed identified as:
Ghalib Abu Shawish
• His wife Camelia Faik Abu Shawish
Their children :
– Bilal Ghaleb Abu Shawish
– Ghalib Abu Shawish witnessed
– Diala Ghalib Abu Shawish
Rami Abu Shawish
• His wife, Sahar Rami Abu Shawish
Their children :
– Muhammad Rami Abu Shawish
– Youssef Ramy Abu Shawish
– Rami Abu Shawish’s sweetheart.
– Tima Ramy Abu Shawish
Salam Abu Shawish
According to Quds News, on Saturday, Israeli forces launched a wave of air attacks across Gaza, killing at least 24 Palestinians, including children, and wounded 87 others, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Local sources said the first attack hit a car in northern Gaza City, and was followed by more attacks in central Deir el-Balah and the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Abdelrhman Shabaan, who was nearby at the time of the car attack, stated to Quds News Network, “The explosion was powerful. There is neither calm in Gaza nor a ceasefire.”
He added, “We have become afraid to go outside due to the ongoing Israeli violations. This is a ceasefire in name only. Where are the mediators?”
According to the Gaza Government Media Office on Saturday, Israel has violated the US-brokered ceasefire at least 497 times since it came into effect on October 10.
These violations have killed about 342 civilians, most of them children, women, and elderly people.
“We condemn in the strongest terms the continued serious and systematic violations of the ceasefire agreement by the Israeli occupation authorities,” the Office said in a statement.
The violations included crimes of direct gunfire against civilians, deliberate shelling and targeting, and the arrest of a number of civilians, reflecting the occupation’s continued policy of aggression despite the declared end of the war, according to the Office.
“These violations constitute a flagrant breach of international humanitarian law and the humanitarian protocol attached to the agreement. Among these violations, 27 occurred Saturday, resulting in 24 mar and 87 wounded,” it added.
35 civilians were abducted by Israeli forces during raids and incursions, the Office noted, adding it has documented 142 incidents of direct gunfire targeting civilians, homes, residential neighborhoods, and the displaced families’ tents, 21 incursions by military vehicles into residential and agricultural areas beyond the so-called yellow line; 228 land, air, and artillery strikes; and 100 demolitions of homes and civilian structures.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office claimed it violated the ceasefire on Saturday after a Hamas fighter attacked Israeli soldiers in Rafah in southern Gaza, an Israeli-controlled territory.
However, Hamas said Israel has been violating the truce “under fabricated pretexts” and called on mediators – the US, Egypt and Qatar – to intervene immediately.
It also said Israel has pushed westward beyond the yellow line, where Israeli troops are stationed in Gaza, and is changing the boundary set out as part of the deal.
“We call upon the mediators to intervene urgently and exert pressure to immediately halt these violations,” the Palestinian group said in a statement.
“We also demand that the US administration fulfil its commitments and compel [Israel] to implement its obligations, and to confront its attempts to undermine the ceasefire in Gaza.”
“Israel is fabricating pretexts to evade the agreement and return to the war of annihilation, while it is the one violating the agreement daily and systematically,” Izzat al-Risheq, member of the Hamas political bureau, said in a statement.
French President Emmanuel Macron stated Sunday that the situation in Gaza is still very difficult, calling for maintaining the sustainability and continuity of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, and adhering to its pledges. This came in press statements he made on the sidelines of the G20 summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
In this context, Macron pointed out that France and Saudi Arabia are the guarantors of the agenda of the “New York Declaration” on a two-state solution to the Palestinian issue.
