Israel carried out a wave of deadly attacks in Gaza over the weekend and temporarily halted aid deliveries, but Israel is now saying it will resume enforcement of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Israel had accused Hamas of killing two Israeli soldiers in Rafah, but there are reports the soldiers died when their bulldozer ran over unexploded ordnance.
Officials in Gaza say Israel has killed at least 97 Palestinians and injured 230 since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10. On Friday, Israeli forces fired a tank shell, killing 11 members of a Palestinian family in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City. The dead included three women and seven children between the ages of 5 and 13.
Israel also bombed the headquarters of the Palestine Media Production Company in central Gaza, killing broadcast engineer Ahmed Abu Matar. His colleague, Ajeb Mohammed, described the attack.
Ajeb Mohammed: “We were sitting here safe and sound. And as you can see, the place is closed off to us. No one enters or leaves. We are all journalists. No strangers were entering or staying with us. Then the bombing happened right next to us, in the middle of the chalet. Our colleague, the broadcasting engineer, was martyred, and our colleague’s child son was also martyred.”