Two children were killed Monday evening in an Israeli airstrike on Rafah, with at least 21 Palestinians killed across the besieged enclave during the day.
Two children were killed Monday evening in an Israeli airstrike on Rafah, with at least 21 Palestinians killed across the besieged enclave during the day.
Mohammad Amjad Oweida, 12, and Amal Amjad Oweida, 5, were killed after an Israeli airstrike hit their house in the al-Barazil neighborhood in Rafah while they were playing on a rooftop.
Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said 32 bodies were recovered on Monday and at least 21 Palestinians reported killed.
Palestinians had said the Zionists broke the ceasefire by bombing a house in Gaza City as soon as a seven-hour truce was declared on Monday, under which the Zionist entity would unilaterally hold fire in most of the Gaza Strip.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said a child was killed and 30 other people were wounded in a strike on a house in Shati camp.
The Zionist government said late Sunday that it would hold a seven-hour ceasefire in most of the Gaza Strip on Monday, a unilateral move that was rejected by Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
The Zionist Defense Ministry, however, said the ceasefire would not apply to eastern Rafah in the south. "If the truce will be violated, the army will respond with fire toward the source of the fire,” it said in a statement.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called on Gazans to proceed with caution. "The unilateral ceasefire announced by Israel is an attempt to divert the attention from Israeli massacres," he said.
The Zionist army warned in a statement that it would "respond to any attempt to exploit this window" and attack civilians and soldiers during the truce. It also said that residents of Abasan al Kabira and Abasan al Saghira, two villages east of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, could return home.
In his Monday statement, Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the "Gaza operation will continue until its goals are reached: a return of quiet and security for Israeli citizens for a long period, while significantly harming terror infrastructure."
"After completing our actions against the terror tunnels aimed at a mass attack against Israeli civilians, the IDF will deploy for further activity according to our security needs, until our goals are achieved," he said.
The Zionist entity has been pounding the blockaded Gaza Strip – home to 1.8 million people – since July 7, leaving at least 1865 Palestinians martyred and around 9470 others injured. Most of the martyrs were civilians.
World powers have fiercely condemned the attack that left 10 Palestinians sheltering at a UN school dead, as the Israeli occupation was pulling some of its troops from Gaza.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the attack on the school sheltering some 3,000 Palestinians who had fled their homes due to the fighting "a moral outrage and a criminal act".
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Monday that “Israel's right to security does not justify its actions in Gaza”, as he called for a political solution to be "imposed" by the international community.
"How many more deaths will it take to stop what must be called the carnage in Gaza?" Fabius said in a statement. "The tradition of friendship between Israel and France is an old one and Israel's right to security is total, but this right does not justify the killing of children and the slaughter of civilians."
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday that the United Nations was "right" to condemn the shelling of the UN school in Gaza, but declined to say whether it breached international law.
Cameron told the BBC: "The UN has spoken very clearly and I think they're right to speak very clearly. International law is clear that it's completely wrong and illegal to target civilians, if that's what's happened."
