JERUSALEM: In the most recent episode to shake the precarious ceasefire with Hamas, Israeli troops fired a mortar shell over the ceasefire line into a Palestinian residential neighborhood in the Gaza Strip. At least ten individuals were injured, according to health officials, and the army stated it was conducting an investigation.
According to the IDF, the mortar was fired during an operation along the “Yellow Line,” which separates the majority of Gaza under Israeli control from the remainder of the region and was drawn in the ceasefire agreement. What soldiers were doing and if they had gone too far were not disclosed by the military. It stated that the mortar had deviated from its intended target, but did not specify the target. Ten people were injured in the attack on downtown Gaza City, several of them gravely, according to Fadel Naeem, director of Al-Ahli Hospital.
Israeli fire has killed Palestinians outside the Yellow Line on multiple occasions since the ceasefire went into force on October 10. Since the ceasefire, Israeli fire has killed over 370 Palestinians, according to Palestinian health officials.
Israel claims that the majority of those killed were Hamas militants and that it opened fire in response to Hamas violations. However, according to an Israeli military official who spoke on condition of anonymity in accordance with military practice, the army is aware of other instances in which people were killed, including a family moving in a van and little children.
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