Gaza Government Media Office says Israel is fully responsible for humanitarian, security repercussions from its repeated ceasefire violations
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\nIsrael has violated the United States-brokered Gaza ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing hundreds of Palestinians since the ceasefire came into effect on 10 October, according to the Gaza Government Media Office.
\nSome 342 civilians have been killed in the attacks, with children, women and the elderly accounting for the majority of the victims.
\n\u201cWe condemn in the strongest terms the continued serious and systematic violations of the ceasefire agreement by the Israeli occupation authorities,\u201d the office said in a statement on Saturday.
\n\u201cThese violations constitute a flagrant breach of international humanitarian law and the humanitarian protocol attached to the agreement. Among these violations, 27 occurred today, Saturday, resulting in 24 martyrs and 87 wounded,\u201d it added.
\nThe office also said Israel was fully responsible for the humanitarian and security repercussions from its violations.
\nIsrael continues to heavily restrict the full and free flow of desperately needed aid and medical supplies into the devastated enclave as was mandated in the ceasefire agreement.
\nIsrael\u2019s military launched a wave of air attacks across Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 24 Palestinians, including children, in its latest violation of a six-week-old ceasefire in the war-torn territory.
\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office said it launched these latest attacks after a Hamas fighter attacked Israeli soldiers in Israeli-occupied territory inside Gaza\u2019s so-called yellow line.
\n\u201cIn response, Israel eliminated five senior Hamas [fighters],\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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\nHamas demanded Israel reveal the identity of the fighter that allegedly attacked the Israeli forces.
\nIzzat al-Risheq, a senior member of Hamas\u2019s political bureau, called on the mediators of the Gaza deal and the US administration to pressure Israel to back its claim and to implement the Gaza agreement.
\n\u201cIsrael is fabricating pretexts to evade the agreement and return to a war of extermination,\u201d he said in a statement.
\n\u201cIt is Israel that violates the agreement daily and systematically.\u201d
\nHe also dismissed the reports that claimed Hamas had called off the ceasefire.
\nAl Jazeera\u2019s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Gaza City, said on Sunday that the truce deal in Gaza is only \u201ca ceasefire in name\u201d.
\n\u201cIn reality, despite the announced pause, the Israeli forces carried out a series of air strikes across Gaza,\u201d he said.
\nAbu Azzoum said such attacks have left Palestinians in Gaza with \u201ca shattered sense of safety\u201d despite the alleged truce.
\n\u201cSuch strikes reinforce the belief that the Gaza deal has been treated as a tactical withdrawal rather than a genuine binding commitment,\u201d he added.
\nDozens of Palestinian families have been besieged in northern Gaza, local authorities have said, as the Israeli military has repositioned its forces deeper into the enclave in violation of the ceasefire agreement.
\nSet out in the agreement between Israel and Hamas, the yellow line refers to an unmarked boundary where the Israeli military repositioned itself when the deal came into effect last month.
\nIt has allowed Israel, which routinely fires at and kills Palestinians who approach the line, to retain control over more than half of the coastal territory.
\nHamas said Israel has pushed westwards beyond the yellow line, where Israeli troops are stationed in Gaza, and is changing the boundary set out as part of the deal.
\nMeanwhile, a spokesperson for Gaza Forensic Evidence Department told Al Jazeera that the organisation needed laboratories and equipment to examine fingerprints and DNA of the bodies of the Palestinians returned by Israel as part of the truce deal, many of which show signs of torture, mutilation and execution.
\n\u201cWe rely on forensic photography and the observations of the families and face difficulties,\u201d the spokesperson said, calling on the international bodies to provide equipment for the identification process.
\nThe spokesperson added that 330 bodies have been returned by Israel and only 90 have been identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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