DayofPal– Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since the eve of Eid Al-Adha killed at least 33 Palestinians in violation of the fragile US-backed ceasefire, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
On Friday, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, reported that at least 26 Palestinians were killed in Gaza since Tuesday, the eve of one of the most important holidays in Islam.
On Saturday, two separate attacks killed Dr. Jamal Abu Oun, head of the Anesthesia Department at Yaffa Hospital, and civil defense worker Salem Qraiqaa.
On May 29, Ahmad Hillis was killed in another Israeli strike that hit Al-Shawa Square in eastern Gaza City. Hillis was the sole survivor of his family after the rest were killed in an earlier Israeli attack during the ongoing war in Gaza.
On the first day of Eid Al-Adha, ten Palestinians, including women, children, and elderly people, were killed in an Israeli strike on a residential building in Gaza City, in one of the deadliest attacks on Gaza since the so-called ceasefire.
The victims included women, elderly people, and children. The youngest was nine years old, while the oldest was 81.
Among those killed were two 12-year-old girls and a 17-year-old girl. Among the killed were twelve-year-old Nour and 13-year-old Yamen who were siblings.
On May 26, the eve of Eid, at least five Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces struck residents confronting Israeli-backed militia members attempting to advance in central Gaza. According to local sources, the Israeli military backed the militia when residents tried to protect their camp.
There has been a spike in Israeli attacks in the war-torn Strip despite the ceasefire.
Israel has violated the ceasefire which took effect in October more than 3,000 times, killing hundreds and blocking the entry of much-needed aid.
Israeli forces have killed more than 930 Palestinians since the ceasefire, including over 300 children, women, and the elderly.
Over 72,900 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the war began on October 7, 2023.
United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk condemned Israel’s recent attacks in the Gaza Strip, saying that “the unrelenting pattern of killings” reflects Israel’s “sweeping impunity”.
“Palestinians are still being killed and injured in what is left of their homes, shelters and tents of displaced families, on the streets, in vehicles, at a medical facility and a classroom,” Turk said.
The attacks come as ICC-wanted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he had directed the Israeli military to take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip as a “start,” forcing approximately 2 million Palestinians into a shrinking fraction of the coastal enclave’s shattered territory.
Also, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that Israel’s ultimate aim was to expel large numbers of Palestinians from Gaza in what he claimed to be “voluntary migration” but human rights activists describe as a long-term plan for ethnic cleansing by making living conditions inside Gaza intolerable.
Ajith Sunghay, head of UN’s human rights office in the occupied Palestinian Territories, said last week that “its concern over the commission of war crimes in Gaza has not stopped.”
“It is difficult enough to navigate life in chronic displacement in the ruins of Gaza, under blockade, and after Israeli attacks virtually destroyed every essential system: healthcare, education, food production, law enforcement and civil order,” he said.
“Continuing military attacks on a population living under these conditions is unthinkable.”
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