Israeli strikes killed 5 people in Gaza and the West Bank, health officials said
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Israeli airstrikes killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, and Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old boy during a military raid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said.
One person was killed in a strike south of Gaza in Khan Younis where many people were injured, local health officials said. The Israeli military said it was targeting armed terrorists, who it said posed a threat to Israeli soldiers.
Three others, including a rescue worker, were killed in a separate strike in al Maghazi, a Palestinian refugee camp in the Deir al Balah neighborhood of central Gaza, health officials said. The Israeli military did not comment on the strike.
Israel has carried out repeated strikes on Gaza since the operation began in October. Both Israel and Hamas accuse each other of violating the ceasefire.
There is no way to enforce a ceasefire. Four Israeli soldiers and more than 780 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire began.
Six months after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire, deadly Israeli airstrikes have killed hundreds, while food shortages are causing widespread hunger and disease.
At Gaza City’s Al Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the area, relatives stood among mourners to bury five people, including three children, killed on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza city.
“There is no peace, no peace, nothing,” said Mohammed Baalousha, a relative of one of the dead. “There is no safety in any place.”
The Israeli military did not comment on the strike.
A young man died in the West Bank
In the West Bank city of Nablus, health officials said Israeli soldiers shot and killed a teenager during a raid in the city.
The Israeli military said a Palestinian threw stones at its forces while “on duty” in the Nablus area and the military began “the usual procedures for the arrest of the suspects, which concluded that the fire was directed at the suspect.”
The soldiers added that they are aware of reports that a Palestinian was killed at the scene.
The Ministry of Health said that Israeli settlers shot and killed a 25-year-old Palestinian man in the town of Deir Dibwan near Ramallah the previous day, the latest in what human rights groups described as an escalation of violence against Palestinians perpetrated by settlers and Israeli soldiers.
On Tuesday, two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed in the village of al-Mughyyir after settlers and Israeli soldiers opened fire, witnesses and the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
The Israeli military did not comment on the incident. The Ministry of Health in Palestine said at least 15 people have been killed in attacks on Israeli settlers so far this year.
