6 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, gunfire across Gaza in fresh ceasefire violation
Woman among dead as Israeli attacks target Gaza City, Nuseirat, Bureij and Jabalia
GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL
Six Palestinians, including a woman, were killed and six others injured Monday in Israeli strikes and gunfire across the Gaza Strip in the latest violation of the ceasefire agreement in force since October.
Medical sources told Anadolu that Ahmad Oweida and Hussein al-Malah were killed and Abdullah al-Amassi critically injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting civilians near the Askoula junction in the Zeitoun neighborhood east of Gaza City.
Al-Amassi later died of his wounds, raising the death toll from the strike to three.
In a later development, medical sources said Haneen al-Hour, 27, was killed after an Israeli quadcopter drone opened fire on Palestinian homes in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Elsewhere in central Gaza, Ibrahim al-Khalidi was killed and six others injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting civilians on Salah al-Din Street near the Bureij refugee camp.
Later Monday, another Palestinian was killed and several others injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting civilians in the al-Faluja area west of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to medical sources.
Witnesses said the Israeli army also demolished buildings and facilities inside areas under its control east of the so-called “yellow line” in the eastern Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City.
Israeli artillery also shelled areas east of Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis in central and southern Gaza.
Israeli forces have carried out daily violations of a ceasefire in place since Oct. 10 which have killed 691 people and wounded 1,876 as of March 18, according to Palestine Health Ministry data.
Israel launched a war on Gaza in October 2023, killing more than 72,000 Palestinians, wounding around 172,000 and devastating about 90% of the enclave’s civilian infrastructure.
*Writing by Tarek Chouiref

