Gaza (QNN)- At least one Palestinian was killed and several others injured after an Israeli strike targeted a security post in Gaza City last night, igniting a fire at the site, amid ongoing violations of the ceasefire and threats to resume the genocide.
Local sources confirmed that an Israeli drone strike targeted a security point in the Jalaa Street in Gaza City, killing at least one and injuring others. The attack also caused fire to erupt in the area.
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There has been a spike in Israeli attacks in the war-torn Strip despite the ceasefire, particularly on police to create chaos and insecurity.
Israel has violated the ceasefire which took effect in October more than 2,700 times, killing hundreds and blocking the entry of much-needed aid.
Israeli forces have killed more than 830 Palestinians since the ceasefire, including over 210 children.
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.
This comes as Israel threatens to resume the genocidal war despite the already daily attacks.
A senior official in the Israeli military’s General Staff told Channel 15 that an additional round of war was “almost inevitable”, citing the refusal of Palestinian factions to surrender its weapons and the alleged “failure” of the International Stabilization Force, a multinational body deployed under the recent truce framework to oversee security and manage the ceasefire’s implementation.
Israel’s Army Radio and several reports, including from Haaretz, Reuters, The Guardian and the UN, reported that on the ground, the military has steadily been expanding the areas it controls in the besieged enclave. By gradually pushing the ceasefire-established “Yellow Line” westwards, Israeli forces have expanded their territorial control to 59 percent of the Strip, regularizing their occupation through daily violations of the ceasefire and moving additional forces from the Lebanese front into Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
A unified front of Palestinian factions — including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — has reportedly rejected the disarmament prerequisite. Instead, the groups insisted on the full implementation of the first phase of the ceasefire, which Israel has repeatedly violated.
Also, a senior Palestinian source with knowledge of the talks told Middle East Eye that the Palestinian proposal called for negotiations over the disarmament of Hamas and other groups to be tied to the granting of political rights for the Palestinian people "within the national framework", as well as to commitments that the people of Gaza would no longer be killed.
On Saturday, the "mediators and the Americans both refused the Palestinian factions' paper and passed threatening messages from the Americans to the Palestinian negotiating team", a senior Palestinian source said.
Palestinian factions insist that disarmament cannot come before a political resolution that includes Palestinian statehood, while Israel and the US have framed it as a prerequisite for any durable ceasefire.
After the US-Israeli rejection of the paper, Israeli media reported that the security cabinet is scheduled to meet on Sunday to discuss renewing the war in Gaza.
“Hamas is not standing by the agreement on disarmament. We are holding discussions with mediators,” an Israeli official told the Kan public broadcaster on Saturday evening.
However, Palestinian negotiators say statehood and self-determination must coincide with security arrangements, adding that continued Israeli violations have undermined confidence in the ceasefire process. These include ongoing military operations and delays in implementing agreed humanitarian measures.
The developments follow warnings from Israeli military analyst Amos Harel, writing in Haaretz, that ICC-wanted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may seek to resume the genocide to secure electoral gains ahead of upcoming general elections.
Harel wrote that "the repeated recent leaks about Hamas’s growing strength in Gaza, followed by political statements, are not a coincidence - the government is preparing to launch a new attack on the Strip".
He added that if Trump maintains a halt to assault in Iran and Lebanon, Netanyahu may aim to "keep the flame of war burning on other fronts, especially with general elections approaching next October".
