This comes amid new violations of the ceasefire agreement, the first phase of which came into effect on October 10th.
Eyewitnesses said that an Israeli force consisting of several military vehicles and bulldozers, reinforced by infantry, advanced hundreds of meters into the "Trans" area and its surroundings in the center of the Jabalia camp on Wednesday morning. This is one of the areas from which the occupation army had previously withdrawn under the ceasefire agreement.
Witnesses indicated that the Israeli force carried out bulldozing operations and pushed yellow concrete blocks (which are considered dividing lines between areas from which the army withdrew and those it continues to occupy) to advanced positions within areas where displaced people are located, amid heavy gunfire that prevented residents and ambulance crews from moving.
Medical sources said that the child, Zaher Nasser Shamia (16 years old), was martyred as a result of a serious injury caused by the bullets of the invading Israeli force. They indicated that ambulance crews were unable to reach the area due to heavy gunfire from the Israeli army, which led to the death of the child Shamia.
In another attack, sources reported that the bodies of a man and a woman arrived at the hospital after they were targeted by direct gunfire from military cranes erected by the occupation army in the vicinity of the Halawa refugee camp in the town of Jabalia.
Earlier on Wednesday, five Palestinians, including two children, were injured in several separate attacks by Israeli drones and artillery in the central and southern Gaza Strip.
death toll
For its part, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced earlier on Wednesday that the death toll from the Israeli genocide since October 2023 has risen to 70,369 martyrs and 171,069 wounded, and said that the Strip’s hospitals received “3 martyrs, including 1 recovered body, and 5 injuries” during the past 24 hours.
She explained that since the ceasefire, the total number of victims has reached "379 martyrs and 992 wounded," in addition to the recovery of 627 bodies from under the rubble left by the Israeli genocide. She added that the toll of the Israeli aggression since October 2023 "has risen to 70,369 martyrs and 171,069 wounded.
In addition to its ongoing bombardment, Israel is violating the agreement by preventing sufficient food and medicine from entering the besieged Gaza Strip, where some 2.4 million Palestinians live in catastrophic conditions
On Tuesday, the Gaza government media office said that Israel had committed 738 violations of the ceasefire agreement in two months, ranging from direct gunfire against civilians to 37 incursions by military vehicles into residential areas.
The office also recorded “358 bombing and targeting crimes against unarmed civilians and their homes, and 138 bombing and destruction crimes against homes, institutions and civilian buildings,” and stressed that these violations represent “a clear violation of international humanitarian law, and a deliberate undermining of the essence of the provisions of the humanitarian protocol attached to it.”
Shelter supplies
For its part, the Palestinian government issued an urgent appeal on Wednesday to international institutions, humanitarian organizations and local associations to immediately distribute shelter supplies to the most affected displaced people, in light of the low-pressure system that has been affecting the sector since dawn.
The Gaza Strip's Government Operations Room for Emergency Interventions said in a press statement that heavy rains during the night led to the flooding of dozens of tents and damage to the property of displaced people, which compounded their suffering due to the lack of adequate protection from the cold and storms.
She warned that if this situation continues, it could cause deaths among children and the elderly, with temperatures dropping and basic protective equipment lacking inside shelters and tents.
The chamber explained that the Gaza Strip "needs more than 300,000 tents and temporary shelter units to provide a minimum level of shelter for affected families, given the widespread destruction of homes and infrastructure over the past two years."
On Tuesday, the Government Media Office in Gaza warned of a polar air depression that will affect the sector starting from Wednesday until Friday evening, threatening hundreds of thousands of displaced families in the sector. It expressed its deep concern about the expected repercussions of the air depression and the real risks it poses, which include the flooding of tents and the inundation of random displacement areas by rainwater.
He said, "This climatic reality is compounding the scale of the humanitarian disaster resulting from the war of extermination."
The United Nations estimates the cost of rebuilding Gaza at about $70 billion, as a result of the repercussions of two years of Israeli war of extermination with American support.
