Israeli military kills two in new Gaza attack despite ‘resuming’ ceasefire

Despite claiming to have resumed the fragile ceasefire, which was already teetering from a deadly bombardment it waged the night before, Israel’s military has launched yet another deadly attack in northern Gaza.

At least two people were killed in Israel’s most recent aerial attack on Wednesday evening in Beit Lahiya, according to al-Shifa Hospital. Israel claimed that it had targeted a location where its troops could store weapons that posed “an immediate threat.”

Calm became despair, according to the quote.

According to Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza City, the recent attacks have resuscitated a population desperate for a two-year war.

“A brief hope for calm turned into despair,” Mahmoud said. In terms of the intensity and level of destruction that were the result of the massive bombings on Gaza City, it is “a stark reminder of the opening weeks of the genocide” for many people.

The latest attacks “started to breathe again, trying to rebuild our lives,” said Khadija al-Husni, a mother who fled Gaza and resides with her children in a school in the Shati refugee camp.

She responded, “It’s a crime.” It can’t be both: a truce or a war. The children were unable to sleep because they believed the war was over.

Don’t let peace “defy our grasp,” says the UN.

According to Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the UN chief has condemned “the killings caused by Israeli airstrikes of civilians in Gaza” the day before and said there were “many children.”

UN rights chief Volker Turk also reaffirmed the report of the deaths of countless people and called on all parties to “let peace fall from our grasp,” reiterating calls from the UK, Germany, and the EU to reaffirm their commitment to the ceasefire.

Hamas, for its part, disputed that its fighters had any “connection to the shooting incident in Rafah, which resulted in the death of an Israeli soldier, and reiterated that it was committed to the ceasefire.

However, it stated that because of Israel’s most recent truce violations, it would delay moving the remains of a deceased captive, further bolstering Israeli claims that the organization is putting a hold on the captive handover procedure. Has warned that any “escalation” from Israel “would impede the body-search, excavating, and recovery of the bodies.”

Meanwhile, Israel officially forbids Red Cross personnel from visiting Palestinian prisoners, citing the threat they might pose to the security of the country.

Hamas claimed that the ban, which was already in effect while the Gaza war was in place, “adds to a number of systematic and criminal violations they are subject to,” including starvation, torture, and killing.

Marwan Barghouti, one of those Palestinian prisoners, was the subject of a call on Wednesday from The Elders, a group of regarded former world leaders. Despite Hamas including the Palestinian leader in its list of prisoners that Israel will release as part of the ceasefire agreement, he is still being held by Israel.

Barghouti, who frequently gets called the Palestinian Nelson Mandela, has been detained by Israel.

Barghouti is serving several life sentences for a charge that Israel allegedly brought about Israeli attacks, which he denies.

The Elders called on US President Donald Trump to secure Barghouti’s release in a statement claiming that “Marwan Barghouti has been a long-standing advocate for a two-state solution through peaceful means.”

Source: Aljazeera

Israeli military kills two in new Gaza attack despite ‘resuming’ ceasefire