Gaza City – A Palestinian individual has been killed in the southern Gaza Strip, while the Israeli military reportedly demolished residential buildings east of Gaza City. The incidents mark a continued period of tension despite a ceasefire agreement reached last month.
According to reports, Israeli forces demolished residential structures in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City. Simultaneously, a Palestinian was killed in the southern part of the territory. The Israeli military claims the individual crossed a designated “yellow line” and posed an immediate threat to their forces.
In a statement, the Israeli army alleged that they identified a person who crossed the “yellow line” and approached their operating forces in southern Gaza, thus constituting a “direct threat.” The statement further asserted, “Upon detection, forces in the field eliminated the threat,” without disclosing the individual’s identity or the fate of their body.
Since the ceasefire agreement went into effect on October 10th, the Israeli military has reported several similar killings, drawing criticism and raising concerns about potential violations of the truce. The “yellow line” represents the demarcation line to which Israeli forces withdrew as part of the initial phase of a US-led plan to end the conflict in Gaza. Areas beyond this line constitute more than half of the Gaza Strip’s total area.
In a separate development, the Civil Defense Agency in Gaza announced the recovery of 35 unidentified bodies. These remains were hastily buried in an area of the Gaza Strip during the height of the conflict. Efforts are now underway to identify the deceased.
The Civil Defense Agency stated that their teams exhumed the bodies from the courtyard of the Sheikh Radwan clinic in Gaza City. The remains were subsequently transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital for examination and sampling. The agency plans to collaborate with international organizations to gather information that could help identify the deceased.
Following a 48-hour period after the exhumation, the bodies will be reburied in the Red Cross cemetery in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. The courtyard of the Sheikh Radwan clinic was one of several locations used by Palestinians to bury relatives killed during the conflict that began in October 2023.
