This came in a statement by the movement commenting on the Israeli army’s killing, earlier on Wednesday, of 288 Palestinians and wounding more than 77 others, in a series of successive raids that targeted several areas in the Gaza Strip from which it had withdrawn, in a new violation of the ceasefire agreement.
The movement said: “We strongly condemn the horrific massacre committed by the occupation in the cities of Gaza and Khan Yunis today, which resulted in the martyrdom of more than 28 of our Palestinian people, including children and women. We consider it a dangerous escalation through which the war criminal Netanyahu seeks to resume the genocide against our people.”
She added: “We reject the Zionist claims about its forces being subjected to gunfire, and we consider it a flimsy and transparent attempt to justify its crimes and violations, which have not stopped, as more than 300 martyrs have been killed since the signing of the ceasefire agreement, and the policy of demolishing and blowing up houses, and closing the Rafah land crossing, has continued, in a blatant Israeli challenge to the American and regional guarantor.”
Hamas called on the US administration to "fulfill its declared commitments, and to exert immediate and serious pressure to restrain the Israeli occupation, and to force it to respect the ceasefire and stop the aggression against our people."
It also called on “the mediators in Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, as guarantors of the ceasefire agreement, to fulfill their commitments and compel the criminal occupation to immediately put an end to its violations that threaten the ceasefire process.”
Regarding the incident, Israel acknowledged violating the ceasefire agreement and launching raids on "Hamas-controlled areas," claiming that gunfire had targeted its forces in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli Army Radio said the air force launched an airstrike on the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, following what it said was gunfire from Palestinian snipers towards an Israeli force in Rafah, "without injuries."
Previous government, factional, and human rights data indicate that Israel has committed dozens of violations of the ceasefire agreement that has been in effect since October 10th.
According to the data, the Israeli violations include shelling and shooting at civilians while they are in areas located west of what is known as the "yellow line," while Israel admits to shooting at them on the pretext that they crossed the line.
Among its violations, Israel has killed 280 Palestinians and injured 672 others since October 11, according to a statement issued Wednesday by the Gaza Health Ministry.
The Israeli war of extermination in Gaza began on October 8, 2023, and stopped two years later under a ceasefire agreement, after leaving more than 69,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 170,000 wounded, most of them children and women, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
