Israeli occupation forces carried out more than a dozen violations of the ceasefire agreement on Tuesday, killing at least 17 Palestinian, including a family, and injuring dozens in a series of airstrikes, drone attacks, and live‑fire incidents across the Gaza Strip.
The attacks targeted homes, civilian vehicles, displaced families, and densely populated neighborhoods, further undermining the fragile ceasefire declared in October 2025.
Four Palestinians were killed and others injured when an Israeli drone struck the first floor of the Al‑Yemen Al‑Sa’eed Hospital in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Medical sources identified the victims as Jamil Hamad Abu Shaqfa, his daughter Nour, Shirin Ismael Issa, and Nour Hamdi Matar.
Earlier Tuesday, two civilians were killed and others wounded when an Israeli airstrike targeted a civilian vehicle near the Najd roundabout in the destroyed city of az‑Zahra, north of Nuseirat in central Gaza.
At dawn, six members of the al‑Masri family, the father, the mother and their children, were killed when Israeli warplanes fired three missiles at their home in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.
Medical sources at the Shifa Hospital confirmed the deaths of Firas Ahmad al‑Masri, his wife Salsabeel Mohammad Ali al‑Masri, and their children: Na’im, Feryal, Salma, and Amira.
In another strike, five Palestinians were reportedly killed when Israeli drones bombed a residential building near the as‑Samer intersection in the Sabra area of Gaza City.
Additional injuries were reported in a separate drone strike on a home in the Sabra neighborhood.
Israeli forces also opened fire east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, coinciding with artillery shelling targeting the area.
On Tuesday morning, a man and a girl were shot and injured near the Bir 19 junction in the al‑Mawasi area of Khan Younis.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) condemned the escalation, reporting that at least 57 Palestinians—including six children and eight women—were killed between 13 and 20 July, despite the ceasefire agreement reached in October 2025.
OHCHR spokesperson and communications officer in Geneva, Thameen Kheetan, stated that “after nine months of a declared ceasefire, there is still no safe place for Palestinians in Gaza,” noting that Israeli strikes continue to hit residential buildings, shelters for displaced families, and crowded urban areas.
The UN documented 10 Israeli attacks on 17 and 18 July alone, killing at least 21 Palestinians in Gaza City, central Gaza, northern Gaza, and Khan Younis in southern Gaza. In one strike, five members of a single family—parents and three children aged 8, 15, and 17—were killed inside their apartment.
The UN warned that the killing of civilians in these attacks “raises serious concerns of ongoing violations of international humanitarian law, war crimes, and other grave abuses,” stressing that deliberately targeting civilians constitutes a war crime.
The Commission also noted that Israeli forces appear to routinely fire at Palestinians near the so‑called “yellow line,” in violation of international human rights and humanitarian law.
