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Gaza’s civil defence agency reported on Thursday that a wave of Israeli air strikes hit multiple encampments for displaced Palestinians across the territory, killing at least 25 people.
Agency spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said an overnight strike targeted several tents in the Al-Mawasi area near the southern city of Khan Younis, resulting in 16 deaths.
“At least 16 martyrs, most of them women and children, and 23 others were wounded following a direct strike by two Israeli missiles on several tents housing displaced families in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis,” Bassal told news agency AFP.
According to Bassal, two additional strikes on other encampments of displaced people killed eight and wounded several more.
Seven were killed in a strike on tents in the northern town of Beit Lahia, while a further attack near the Al-Mawasi area killed a father and his child who were living in a tent, Bassal said.
Al Jazeera reports that dozens of Israeli settlers have entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem.
According to the long-standing status quo in Jerusalem, non-Muslims may visit the site but are prohibited from engaging in religious rituals.
The incident is part of a series of settler incursions that have taken place during the Jewish Passover holiday, which is currently in its fifth day.
The Israeli military said Thursday it struck Hezbollah infrastructure sites in south Lebanon overnight, without specifying how.
“Overnight, the [Israeli military] struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites in southern Lebanon,” the military said. “The [Israeli military] will operate against any attempts by Hezbollah to rebuild or establish a military presence under the guise of civilian cover.”
Despite a November 27 ceasefire that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel has continued to carry out near-daily strikes in Lebanon.
Hezbollah, significantly weakened by the war, insists it is adhering to the ceasefire, even as Israeli attacks persist.
Rocket fire from Lebanon into Israel has also been reported since the truce was struck, although no group has claimed responsibility for the launches.
On Wednesday, the Lebanese army said it had arrested several people suspected of firing rockets at Israel from Lebanon.
A security official told news agency AFP that three of those detained were members of Hezbollah’s Palestinian ally Hamas.
Hundreds of Palestinians staged a protest against Gaza’s Hamas rulers on Wednesday in the territory’s northern city of Beit Lahia, calling for an end to the war, witnesses said.
Protestors directly targeted the Palestinian group with chants such as “Hamas out, out” or “Hamas is all rubbish”, said Abu Ismail Washah.
Washah, a 45-year-old resident of northern Gaza, said that he joined because he supports “any movement that calls for ending the war, because right now we are under siege, facing destruction and constant suffering.”
Hamas took full control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, after a brief but violent conflict with rival Palestinian group Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority.
Levels of discontent towards Hamas are difficult to gauge, in part because of its intolerance for public expressions of dissent.
On Wednesday, some held posters reading “Hamas does not represent me.”
A senior Hamas official told news agency AFP on Wednesday that the group is still preparing its response to an Israeli proposal for a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza.
“The movement’s response is still in preparation, and we affirm that there is no room for any partial deal,” Mahmoud Mardawi said, insisting that the group’s “weapons will not be subject to any negotiations”.
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met Russian nationals freed from captivity in the Gaza strip after Hamas’ October 2023 attacks on Israel and said Moscow’s longstanding ties with Palestinians helped secure their freedom.
“The fact that you are now free is a result of Russia’s many years of stable relations with the Palestinian people, with the representatives of different organisations,” Russian news agencies quoted Putin as telling former hostage Alexander Trufanov and members of his family.
“Here we have to offer a word of gratitude to the leadership and to the political wing of Hamas for a gesture made to us in carrying out this humanitarian act,” the agencies said he told the late-night Kremlin meeting.
Russia, Putin said, “had truly done everything possible” to secure Trufanov’s liberation and would undertake whatever was necessary to ensure those still in captivity would be freed.
Trufanov was freed after nearly 500 days in captivity in February as part of talks leading to a ceasefire. He thanked Putin for helping secure his release and hoped for the release of all remaining hostages whom he viewed “like brothers”.
Gaza: Dozens of displaced civilians killed in Israeli strikes – The New Arab
