Israeli attack across Gaza kill 14 Palestinians despite ‘ceasefire’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News

At least 425 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since an October ceasefire came into effect, the Health Ministry says.

Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 14 Palestinians, including five children, on Thursday, medical sources tell Al Jazeera, as Israel continues to bomb the coastal enclave despite an October ceasefire.

An Israeli attack tents for displaced people in al-Mawasi area in southern Gaza killed at least four Palestinians, medical sources said.

Another Israeli strike in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City killed four people, as well. Israel also bombed the Bureij and Nuseirat areas of central Gaza.

Separately, Israeli fire killed an 11-year-old Palestinian girl named Hamsa Housou in northern Gaza’s Jabalia area.

Her uncle, Khamis Housou, said he woke up to screaming in the family’s building. “I saw Hamsa lying on the floor and blood coming out of her nose and mouth,” he said.

The attacks come as Israel has continued its military assault on Gaza despite a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement that came into effect on October 10.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) called the Israeli strikes on displaced Palestinians on Thursday a war crime that reflects Israel’s aim of making Gaza unlivable.

“We affirm that this entity does not respect any ceasefire agreements and relies on treachery and false security pretexts to carry out its plans of extermination and displacement,” the left-wing group said in a statement.

At least 425 Palestinians have been killed and 1,206 others wounded in Israeli attacks since October 11, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza.

At the same time, hundreds of thousands of displaced families have been sheltering in makeshift tent camps across Gaza after their homes were destroyed in Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the territory.

Israel has refused to allow a free flow of shelter supplies into the Gaza Strip, despite warnings from the United Nations and humanitarian groups that Palestinians are suffering amid a series of deadly winter storms.

Encampments have been flooded due to heavy rainfall in recent weeks, prompting calls from Palestinians for better tents, blankets and warm clothes.

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said this week that Palestinians in Gaza were suffering from “respiratory infections, wound complications [and] skin diseases” as a result of harsh living conditions.

Babies are also “suffering from severe cold”, the group said, “all the while Israel continues to block or delay the entry of vital supplies like tents, tarpaulins, and temporary housing”.

Meanwhile, Israel has moved to block international aid groups, including MSF and the Norwegian Refugee Council, from operating in the Strip.

Israel has revoked the operating licences of 37 aid organisations for failing to comply with new regulations that require them to provide detailed information on staff members, funding and operations.

Experts say those requirements contravene humanitarian principles and follow a longstanding Israeli government campaign to vilify and ultimately impede the work of aid groups providing assistance to Palestinians.

On Thursday, the Reuters news agency reported that MSF, Medecins du Monde Suisse and the Danish Refugee Council said the Israeli authorities refused to allow their international staff to enter Gaza this week.

The targeted groups have said they will be forced to stop providing key services, including healthcare, in Gaza as a result of Israel’s ban, putting Palestinian lives at risk.