Gaza (QNN)- An Israeli airstrike near a mosque in the northern Gaza Strip killed five Palestinians, including three children, on Wednesday, amid ongoing daily Israeli attacks and reported violations of the so-called ceasefire.
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Medics and civil defense officials said the five were killed after an Israeli strike targeted a gathering near a mosque in Beit Lahiya, north of the enclave.
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There has been a spike in Israeli attacks in the war-torn Strip despite the ceasefire.
Israel has violated the ceasefire which took effect in October more than 2,400 times, killing hundreds and blocking the entry of much-needed aid.
Israeli forces have killed more than 780 Palestinians since the ceasefire, including over 300 children, women, and the elderly. At least 32 of those killed were in this month alone.
Over 72,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the war began on October 7, 2023. More than 20,000 children were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in two years of its genocidal war, according to a Save the Children report in September. The charity said that, on average, at least one child was killed every hour, over 1,000 of them under one year old, with thousands more suffering injuries, trauma or separation from parents.
United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk condemned Israel’s recent violence in the Gaza Strip, saying that “the unrelenting pattern of killings” reflects Israel’s “sweeping impunity”.
“For the past 10 days, Palestinians are still being killed and injured in what is left of their homes, shelters and tents of displaced families, on the streets, in vehicles, at a medical facility and a classroom,” Turk said.
