By Nour Abuaisha and Rania Abu Shamala
GAZA CITY, Palestine /ISTANBUL (AA) – Three Palestinians were killed and several others injured in a new Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip on Monday, in the latest violation of a ceasefire agreement, a medical source said.
Witnesses said a quadcopter drone struck a group of people as they were collecting firewood for cooking northeast of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
Three more Palestinians were injured in another strike targeting a group of civilians in the Jneina neighborhood east of Rafah in southern Gaza, the medical source said.
Meanwhile, the Civil Defense Agency said its teams extinguished a fire that erupted near Palestinian tents in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah after Israeli shelling.
Monday’s attacks were the latest Israeli violations of the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in Gaza in January, halting Israel’s brutal war, which has killed over 48,500 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and left the enclave in ruins.
Despite the ceasefire, the Gaza local authorities reported almost daily ceasefire violations by the Israeli army.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its military campaign.