Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured on Saturday as a result of a series of attacks and raids launched by Israeli forces on various areas in the Gaza Strip, coinciding with the continued demolition and destruction of residential buildings.
Medical sources in Gaza City reported that the body of martyr Muhammad Najib Ashour arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital, following an Israeli drone strike that targeted a bicycle near the Asqoula intersection in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of the city.
Later, a Palestinian was killed and four others were injured, two of them seriously, as a result of an Israeli drone strike near Abu Sharikh roundabout, west of Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, according to a medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital.
In the northern Gaza Strip, ambulance crews were able to retrieve the bodies of the two martyrs, Bilal Hussein Abu Rabi and Hamza Imad Hamdouna, from the town of Beit Lahia, after they were targeted by the Israeli army, days after they had gone missing.
The Al-Salatin area, west of Beit Lahia, was also subjected to artillery shelling and heavy gunfire from Israeli vehicles, while this morning the Israeli army blew up facilities and residential buildings east of the town of Bani Suheila, south of the Gaza Strip, causing a huge explosion without any human casualties.
For its part, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the deaths of seven Palestinians and the recovery of nine bodies, in addition to 16 injuries, during the past 48 hours. The ministry noted that the total number of victims of ceasefire violations since the ceasefire agreement came into effect has reached 1,066 martyrs and 3,445 wounded. The ministry explained that these developments have raised the overall death toll from the Israeli war of genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, to 73,090 martyrs and 173,553 wounded.
This continued escalation confirms the fragility of the truce agreement reached after two years of devastating war, which not only left a heavy toll of victims, but also, according to UN and local reports, led to widespread destruction affecting ninety percent of the civilian infrastructure in the sector, at a time when the United Nations estimated the cost of reconstruction at about seventy billion dollars.
