Medical sources told Anadolu that the bodies of two Palestinians arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza, after they were targeted in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army, in a statement published on its X platform, announced that it had "carried out a focused attack in the Beit Lahia area of northern Gaza, led by the Southern Command and carried out by the Air Force." It added that it had attacked what it claimed was "terrorist infrastructure where weapons and aerial equipment were stored, which were intended for use in carrying out an immediate terrorist plot against the Israeli army and the State of Israel."
The army stated that its forces are deployed in the area "in accordance with the ceasefire agreement lines, and will continue to work to eliminate any direct threat."
This attack came less than 24 hours after an Israeli escalation, allegedly because its forces were fired upon in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, which resulted in the deaths of 104 Palestinians, including dozens of children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
The ministry said that the death toll since the ceasefire agreement came into effect on October 10 has risen to "211 martyrs and 597 injuries," in addition to the recovery of the bodies of "482 martyrs," indicating that they were killed before the start of the agreement.
This attack constitutes a new violation of the ceasefire agreement signed by Hamas and Israel, brokered by Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey, and sponsored by the United States, as part of a plan devised by President Donald Trump. Israel announced this morning its return to the ceasefire agreement, while also threatening further violations.
In a related context, the government media office in Gaza said on Wednesday that Israel published a list of 26 names, claiming they belonged to Palestinians it killed during its latest aggression in the past 24 hours, but it turned out that the list contained fictitious, non-Arabic names and others who were alive.
This came in a statement from the office, commenting on a list published by Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee on the Telegram platform, which he claimed included the names of leaders in the "Palestinian resistance" who were killed in the past few hours.
In its statement, the Gaza Media Office said, "The Israeli occupation continues its systematic campaign of disinformation, falsification, and spreading lies in order to distort the truth and cover up its ongoing crimes against the civilian population in the Gaza Strip." It explained that the Israeli army "published a list of 26 names, including 21 photos, claiming they belonged to people killed during its recent brutal aggression, which began 24 hours ago."
He added: "Upon further investigation, it was found that the list contained three incorrect, non-Arabic names not found in official Palestinian records, in addition to fictitious names that do not exist in reality, some of which were deliberately omitted from the list." The statement from the office also revealed that the list included "the names of four individuals who were neither killed nor present in the targeted areas, and who are still alive."
Earlier on Wednesday, Hamas called for pressure on Israel to stop its massacres against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and to abide by the ceasefire agreement, stressing that it "will not allow the enemy to impose new realities."
The ceasefire agreement, according to the plan of US President Donald Trump, ended a two-year Israeli war of genocide on Gaza that began on October 8, 2023, with the support of Washington, which left 68,643 Palestinian martyrs and 170,655 wounded, most of them children and women, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
