The long-awaited ceasefire in Gaza has come into effect after more than 15 months, but Israeli attacks continue unabated.
Two more Palestinians have been killed and several others injured in Israeli military strikes in the besieged Gaza Strip, Anadolu news agency reported on Friday (January 24).
The report said that despite the ceasefire agreement, Israeli airstrikes continued in southern and central Gaza. The casualties occurred in an artillery strike targeting a house in the Tel al-Sultan area of western Rafah in southern Gaza on Thursday. A medical source confirmed to Anadolu that two people were killed and others were injured in the attack.
The area has been declared a “safe” zone to which Palestinians can return under the agreement between Israel and Hamas.
A Palestinian wounded by Israeli fire in the eastern part of the Al-Burej refugee camp was transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, a medical source said.
The Israeli offensive in Gaza has not stopped completely since a ceasefire agreement came into effect in the besieged Palestinian territory on January 19. More than 11,000 people are still missing in the Israeli offensive. Despite a UN Security Council ceasefire proposal, Israel has been carrying out a brutal attack on Gaza for a long time, which was expected to end with the agreement.
The Israeli offensive has forced more than two million residents to flee their homes. The attack has reduced Gaza to rubble. The Israeli offensive, which has been ongoing since October 2023, has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
The three-phase ceasefire agreement includes prisoner exchanges, a permanent peace, a permanent ceasefire, and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
According to the United Nations, Israel’s brutal offensive has displaced about 85 percent of Gaza’s Palestinian population and damaged or destroyed 60 percent of the territory’s infrastructure. In addition, Israel has already been accused of genocide by the International Court of Justice.
