A medical source at the Kuwaiti Hospital told Anadolu that "5 citizens, including two children, were killed and others were injured, after raids launched by the Israeli occupation on the tents of displaced people in the Al-Najat camp in Mawasi Khan Yunis."Anadolu Agency's correspondent reported that the bombing carried out by Israeli drones also caused a fire in a number of tents of displaced people, while scenes emerged of families trying to extinguish the fires with primitive means amid a state of panic.
The Israeli occupation army claimed in a statement that it had “attacked a member of Hamas in Khan Younis in response to a breach of the ceasefire agreement,” while Hamas, in its statement, called on “mediators and guarantor states to restrain the occupation and not allow Netanyahu to evade the agreement and stop the bombing of civilians.”
The movement added: “The occupation’s bombing of the displaced people’s tents in Khan Yunis is a war crime and a disregard for the ceasefire agreement.”
The area targeted by the Israeli army is located within the areas from which it withdrew according to the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on October 10th.
The escalation came shortly after threats made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following the army's announcement that five of its soldiers were wounded in clashes with Palestinian fighters who, according to his claim, "emerged from a tunnel in the city of Rafah" in southern Gaza.
The army claimed that forces from the Golani Brigade clashed with a number of militants who emerged from a tunnel in Rafah. It added that during the clashes, a Golani Brigade soldier was seriously wounded, while two other soldiers from the brigade and a soldier from the 143rd Gaza Division sustained moderate injuries. The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported that a fifth soldier was lightly wounded in the same clashes.
In a related development, Israel's Channel 12 reported that following the Rafah incident, Netanyahu held a meeting with security officials to discuss the Israeli response. The report indicated that the meeting included Defense Minister Yisrael Katz, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, and other senior officials from the Israeli military and security establishment.
These attacks are an extension of a series of Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement signed between Hamas and Israel, mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey, and sponsored by the United States.
According to the government media office in Gaza, the Israeli army violated the agreement 591 times, killing 357 Palestinians and injuring 903 others up to last Sunday.
The Israeli genocide that began on October 8, 2023, left more than 70,000 Palestinian martyrs and about 171,000 wounded, most of them children and women, and massive destruction with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
