Three Palestinians, including a child, have been killed and three others wounded by Israeli attacks in Gaza, marking the latest violations of an ongoing ceasefire agreement, a medical source said.
The source said a 3-year-old child and a young man were killed on Sunday when Israeli forces shelled a civilian gathering west of Deir al Balah in central Gaza. Two more people were wounded in the attack.
A 21-year-old Palestinian also died of his wounds from Israeli shelling that targeted the Al-Amal neighbourhood, west of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza last week, the source added.
According to the source, an elderly Palestinian woman was wounded by gunfire from Israeli vehicles near the Al-Maslakh area, southwest of Khan Younis.
In northern Gaza, Israeli artillery fired several shells towards areas east of the Jabalia refugee camp and the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, local sources said.
Israeli vehicles also opened heavy fire towards residential homes east of the Bureij refugee camp, according to local sources and eyewitnesses.
The attacks come despite an earlier call by US President Donald Trump for Israel to halt its strikes on Gaza.
In an August 17 interview with US broadcaster Fox News, Trump said that Israel “shouldn't be carrying out strikes in Gaza.” He also said Hamas had agreed to “give up its weapons” in line with a US-backed peace plan.
Last October, a US-backed ceasefire agreement ostensibly went into effect in Gaza.
Since then, however, repeated Israeli truce violations have killed at least 1,318 Palestinians across the enclave and have left more than 4,300 others wounded.
Hundreds of bodies of slain Palestinians, meanwhile, have been pulled from under the rubble of destroyed infrastructure.
According to Gaza’s health ministry, more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel’s Gaza genocide in October 2023.
