Almost a month after the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, the loss of life toll in Gaza remains to be rising amid reviews of extra killings, as the continuing seek for our bodies from beneath the rubble continues.
The Ministry of Well being in Gaza stated on Saturday that the entire variety of individuals killed within the enclave since October 7, 2023, had risen to 69,169, after extra of the useless have been recognized and extra our bodies recovered.
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Israeli assaults have killed greater than 240 Palestinians because the ceasefire deal got here into impact final month, the ministry stated.
On Saturday, there have been reviews of but extra killings. The Israeli navy stated that it killed one Palestinian who had crossed the so-called yellow line and approached Israeli troopers working in northern Gaza.
The yellow line is a demarcation line to which Israeli forces agreed to withdraw beneath the United States-brokered truce to finish the struggle.
The Israeli military stated it killed one other Palestinian in southern Gaza, who had additionally crossed the yellow line and allegedly “posed an instantaneous risk” to its troops.
Israel has continued to fireplace at Palestinians, including families, who strategy the demarcation line.
Including to the loss of life toll, a Palestinian youngster was killed after an explosive machine left behind by Israeli forces within the metropolis of Khan Younis detonated, in keeping with Nasser Hospital.
In the meantime, the World Well being Group (WHO) known as for the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt to be reopened for pressing medical evacuations.
About 4,000 Palestinian sufferers have left Gaza by Rafah for therapy in Egypt and elsewhere, with one other 16,500 sufferers nonetheless ready to get medical care overseas, in keeping with the WHO.
“The Rafah crossing is a crucial exit for medical evacuations and a key entry for well being provides into Gaza. Egypt stays one of many fundamental locations for sufferers needing pressing care,” the company wrote in a social media publish.
Army and settler raids intensify
Within the occupied West Financial institution, navy raids and settler assaults continued in an obvious drive to power Palestinians from their land, as a part of the Israeli authorities’s unlawful settlement enlargement throughout the territory.
Israeli settlers attacked a bunch of Palestinian villagers, activists and journalists who had gathered on Saturday to harvest olives within the city of Beita, south of Nablus within the occupied West Financial institution.
Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli anti-apartheid activist, who was serving to Palestinians harvest their olives, described to Al Jazeera how a bunch of dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked with golf equipment.
The settlers descended from a hill and “began hurling … large rocks at us, and we needed to flee”, Pollak instructed Al Jazeera.
He stated the assault led to greater than a dozen accidents that required medical consideration, together with a journalist who was bludgeoned by the settlers, and a 70-year-old activist who had his cheekbone and jaw damaged.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate stated in a press release that 5 journalists – Ranin Sawafteh, Mohammed al-Atrash, Louay Saeed, Nasser Ishtayeh and Nael Bouaitel – have been injured within the assault.
The syndicate condemned the assault, calling it a “struggle crime geared toward killing them”.
The Reuters information company confirmed that two of its workers, a journalist and a safety adviser accompanying her, have been amongst these injured within the assault.
Israeli settlers have been finishing up near-daily assaults on Palestinian farmers and their lands throughout this 12 months’s olive harvest within the occupied West Financial institution, focusing on one of the vital important symbols of Palestinian heritage and livelihood.
The harvest comes amid a wave of settler violence. The United Nations says a minimum of 126 assaults have been recorded since September in 70 cities and villages, with greater than 4,000 olive bushes and saplings vandalised or uprooted.
On Saturday, Israeli settlers additionally attacked Palestinian houses within the village of Raba, southeast of Jenin, beneath the safety of armed Israeli troopers, who entered the village similtaneously the assaults, in keeping with the Palestinian information company Wafa.
The navy additionally ramped up its assaults on Saturday, taking pictures and injuring a person throughout a raid within the Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas, in keeping with the Palestinian Well being Ministry.
Troopers arrested a 13-year-old within the city of Yabad, close to Jenin, after beating him on the street, and a younger man within the city of al-Mazraa ash-Sharqiya, close to Ramallah.
Individually, in ar-Ram, north of occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian man was shot within the leg close to Israel’s separation wall and transferred to a medical facility in Ramallah, in keeping with Wafa.
In the meantime, dozens of Palestinians suffered from tear gasoline inhalation after Israeli forces fired gasoline canisters at worshippers performing night prayers on the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Mosque in Salem, a village east of Nablus.
