Israeli strikes killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday after the news that Israel and Hamas had reached a ceasefire deal, which still needs final approval by the Israeli government and is expected to take effect on Sunday.
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 82 Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks on Wednesday, including about 30 who were killed after the ceasefire deal was announced.
Most of the dead were killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza City, but Israeli attacks were also reported in the southern city of Khan Younis and central Gaza. According to the Quds News Network, 20 Palestinians were killed by an Israeli bombing of a residential building in the Sheikh Radwan
“The occupation army is going crazy,” Hossam Shabbat, a journalist in Gaza, wrote on X. “The bombing has not stopped. We are now living through difficult moments under a barrage of attacks.”
The relentless Israeli strikes did not stop Palestinians from celebrating the news of a ceasefire deal as they’re hoping for relief after over 15 months under a siege and constant bombing.
Earlier on Wednesday, Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update that Israeli strikes killed 62 Palestinians and wounded 253 in the previous 24-hour period. The ministry said its death toll since October 2023 had reached 46,707, and the number of wounded climbed to 110,265.
A new study published in The Lancet found the Health Ministry’s numbers were a significant undercount, likely by 41%. The study said that as of October 2024, the true death toll was likely over 70,000, which only accounts for violent deaths, not indirect deaths caused by the US-backed Israeli siege.
Does Israel need help in discerning the terms of a ceasefire?!?….
It goes without saying…!
In their lexicon, ceasefire means reload.
So much for the great 'ceasefire'.
It supposedly doesn’t begin until Sunday.
So like a psychopathic abusive spouse, they beat the sh1t out of, and try to kill the abused before they have freedom.
right, shows the spirit with which they entered into it … doesn’t bode well, … as this spouse lives right next door.
It’s probably a dirty deal, like all of the West Bank goes to Israel, Northern Gaza too or something like that. Or an actual ethnic cleansing shifting Palestinians elsewhere. I don’t know. But fairness to Palestinians has never been a US stance.
Yes. Sadly, they’re in for bitter disappointment. They don’t know our scum elite like we do.
I am keeping a tiny piece of hope alive.
The world is appalled at the US and Israel.
And promised belligerence toward Iran. More than the usual belligerence.
Nothing says PEACE like a 500lb. bomb. I'm sure the ground crew wrote PEACE all over those bombs. This ceasefire is nothing but smoke and mirrors to get their POWs released. Then the Greater Israel project will continue with the help of Zion Don.
I hope you are wrong, I hope we are all wrong who don’t trust this.
I don't think Trump is much of a Zionist. He is just as much a Christian or Evangelical or Hindu. Whatever is most advantageous for him, his money and power, that's who he will side with.
And not a word will be spoken. Funny (not really) how the deal doesn't take effect until the 19th. Got to keep it fresh for inauguration day.
One thing Hamas was able to bring out in all of this is showing how depraved the Israeli government, and the Israeli Defense Forces are. These are all really sick, sicko, psychopathic puppies who need to be locked up in the Hague.