The Israeli regime continues to wage lethal attacks across the Gaza Strip, killing more than 340 Palestinians in nearly 500 documented violations since a ceasefire agreement took effect, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
The coastal sliver’s authorities said the regime has used the pause not to de-escalate, but to entrench its occupation, expand military incursions, and intensify violence against an already devastated civilian population.
In a detailed breakdown released on Saturday, the authorities reported that the regime had committed 497 violations of the agreement.
These included 142 shootings targeting civilians, homes, and displacement tents; 228 air, artillery and ground strikes; as well as 100 demolitions of residential and civilian structures. The report also noted 21 incursions beyond the “yellow line,” the so-called boundary the regime had agreed not to cross.
As many as 35 Palestinians have also been arrested in raids and military operations, they added. Saturday alone saw 27 new violations, which resulted in the killing of 24 Palestinians and the wounding of 87 others.
The media office described the pattern as a “flagrant breach” of international humanitarian law and clear evidence that Tel Aviv intends to “create a bloody new reality” inside the Palestinian territory.
Civil defense teams, overwhelmed and exhausted, reported recovering at least 22 additional bodies from the rubble of bombed homes and civilian vehicles over the past 24 hours.
‘The violence never ended’
Gazans said the ceasefire existed only on paper. An Al Jazeera reporter, reporting from Gaza City, noted that hundreds of Palestinians had been killed since the truce began on October 10. He said residents were living in a constant state of fear as Israeli drones continue to circle overhead, ongoing artillery fire, and Israeli forces still stationed across more than half of Gaza, despite the deal’s terms.
Gaza’s Hamas resistance movement condemned the latest attacks as “systematic violations” carried out under “fabricated pretexts.”
The group urged mediators, especially the United States, to enforce the obligations the regime supposedly committed to and to halt what it described as Tel Aviv’s deliberate sabotage of the agreement.
A genocidal campaign that never paused
Since October 2023, the regime’s war of genocide on Gaza that the deal was meant to halt, has killed nearly 70,000 Palestinians, the vast majority of them women and children.
More than 170,800 have been injured, and almost the entire population has been displaced. Entire neighborhoods have also been reduced to uninhabitable rubble.
[ SOURCE: AL JAZEERA ]
