UPDATES DEATH TOLL, CHANGES HEADLINE, DECK
By Mustafa Haboush, Betul Yilmaz and Rania Abu Shamala
GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL (AA) - The Israeli army killed four Palestinians and injured 37 others in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in the latest violation of a US-sponsored ceasefire agreement, medics said.
A medical source said two bodies, including a child, were transferred to the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City after Israeli artillery shelling of Al-Tuffah neighborhood. Fifteen other people were injured in the attack.
A third Palestinian was killed by Israeli army fire in the Zeitoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.
Medical sources also said that photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi was killed in an Israeli strike in central Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Medics said 17 more people, including women, were wounded when Israeli artillery struck Al-Daraj School, which displaced families have sheltered in central Gaza City.
The Gaza Civil Defense said in a statement that five more people, including two women and two children, were injured by Israeli army fire in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.
Civil defense teams, in coordination with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), evacuated dozens of civilians who had been besieged by Israeli forces since last night under intense fire from tanks and drones, the statement added.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army carried out demolitions of buildings and facilities in areas still controlled by the military in the town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, witnesses said.
Recently, Gaza City, along with Khan Younis and Rafah in the south, has been the main target of Israeli attacks in the enclave, as the army daily strikes the eastern parts of these cities, which fall under the military-controlled yellow zone.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 356 Palestinians have been killed and more than 900 others injured in Israeli attacks since the ceasefire took effect on Oct. 10.
Since October 2023, the Israeli army has killed more than 70,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and injured over 171,000 others in a brutal assault that also left the enclave in ruins.