Israeli strikes kill 23 Palestinians, including children, as Gaza ceasefire inches forward

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hospitals successful Gaza said Israeli strikes killed astatine slightest 23 Palestinians Saturday, 1 of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire aimed astatine stopping the fighting.

A time aft Israel accused Hamas of caller ceasefire violations, strikes deed locations passim Gaza, including lethal ones connected an flat gathering successful Gaza City and a structure campy successful Khan Younis, officials astatine hospitals that received the bodies said. The casualties included 2 women and six children from 2 antithetic families. An airstrike besides deed a constabulary presumption successful Gaza City, sidesplitting astatine slightest 11 and wounding others, Shifa Hospital manager Mohamed Abu Selmiya said.

The bid of strikes besides came a time earlier the Rafah crossing on the borderline with Egypt is acceptable to unfastened successful Gaza’s southernmost city. All of the territory’s borderline crossings person been closed passim astir the full war. Palestinians spot Rafah arsenic a lifeline for the tens of thousands successful request of attraction extracurricular the territory, wherever the bulk of aesculapian infrastructure has been destroyed.

The crossing's opening, constricted astatine first, marks the archetypal large measurement successful the 2nd signifier of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Reopening borders is among the challenging issues connected the docket for the signifier present underway, which besides see demilitarizing the portion aft astir 2 decades of Hamas regularisation and installing a caller authorities to oversee reconstruction.

Still, Saturday’s strikes are a reminder that the decease toll successful Gaza is inactive rising adjacent arsenic the ceasefire statement inches forward.

Nasser Hospital said the onslaught connected the structure campy caused a occurrence to interruption out, sidesplitting seven, including a father, his 3 children and 3 grandchildren. Meanwhile, Shifa Hospital said the Gaza City flat gathering onslaught killed 3 children, their aunt and grandma connected Saturday morning, portion the onslaught connected the constabulary presumption killed astatine slightest 11 — officers, including 4 policewomen, and inmates held astatine the station. The Hamas-run Interior Ministry said Palestinian civilians were besides killed successful the strike.

Hamas called Saturday's strikes “a renewed flagrant violation” and urged the United States and different mediating countries to propulsion Israel to halt strikes.

A subject official, speaking Saturday connected the information of anonymity successful enactment with protocol, could not remark connected the circumstantial targets, but said Israel carried retired overnight and Saturday strikes successful effect to what the service said were ceasefire violations the time before.

Israel’s military, which has deed targets connected some sides of the ceasefire’s yellowish line, has said strikes since October person been successful effect to violations of the agreement. In a connection Friday, the subject said they killed 3 militants exiting a passageway successful an Israeli-controlled portion successful Rafah.

Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded 509 Palestinians killed by Israeli occurrence since the commencement of the ceasefire connected Oct. 10. The ministry, which is portion of the Hamas-led government, maintains elaborate casualty records that are seen arsenic mostly reliable by U.N. agencies and autarkic experts.

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Magdy reported from Cairo and Metz from Jerusalem.

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