Israeli forces in northern Gaza shot and killed a 16-year-old boy on Wednesday before crushing his body with a tank, the Palestinian news agency WAFA has reported, as the IDF continues to violate the US-backed ceasefire deal.
“A WAFA correspondent reported that the army shot 16-year-old Zaher Nasser Shamiya from Jabalia refugee camp and then ran over him with a tank, splitting his body in half,” the news agency said.
The Quds News Network said in a post on X that Shamiya had “returned with his family to live in Block 2 of Jabalia refugee camp, along the so-called ‘yellow line,'” referring to the vague boundary that separates the Israeli-occupied side of Gaza from the rest of the Strip.
Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported that an “Israeli force made up of several military vehicles and bulldozers, backed by infantry units, advanced several hundred meters beyond the ‘yellow line'” into the al-Ternes area of the Jabalia refugee camp, which has been completely destroyed by the IDF.
The IDF claimed that two “terrorists” crossed the yellow line and said that its forces “eliminated” one of them. According to
The Anadolu report said that two other Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in Jabalia on Wednesday.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said earlier in the day that since the ceasefire was supposed to go into effect on October 10, Israeli forces have killed at least 379 Palestinians and wounded 992. “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 ministry said.
