The Israeli military killed a three-year-old girl in southern Gaza on Sunday, the Quds News Network has reported, as Israel continues to violate the US-backed ceasefire deal.
QNN identified the girl as Ahed al-Biyouk and said she was shot by Israeli soldiers in the al-Mawasi tent camp in southern Gaza outside of the Israeli-occupied zone. Footage from Turkey’s Anadolu Agency shows family members mourning al-Biyouk at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
The IDF claimed in a statement that its soldiers killed a “terrorist who crossed the yellow line” in southern Gaza, but it’s unclear if the statement was referring to the shooting of al-Biyouk.
The killing of al-Biyouk came a day after an Israeli drone stalked and killed a 70-year-old woman and her son in Gaza City in the north. Hani Mahmoud, an Al Jazeera reporter in Gaza City, said the woman was about one kilometer from the “yellow line” when she was killed and that she was “left to bleed to death” as the drone continued to hover above.
A total of seven Palestinians were reported killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza on Saturday. Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Sunday that at least six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces over the previous 24-hour period, a toll that counts bodies brought to hospitals and morgues.
“A number of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, as ambulance and civil defense crews have been unable to reach them so far,” the Health Ministry wrote on Telegram.
The ministry said that since the US-backed ceasefire was supposed to go into effect, Israel has killed at least 373 Palestinians and wounded 970.
