A Palestinian man was martyred in eastern Gaza City on Saturday, as Israeli occupation forces committed new ceasefire violations in multiple areas of the devastated territory.
Medical sources reported that Haroun Bahar, 27, was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces near the destroyed bus station in Gaza City’s Shuja’iya neighborhood.
In a separate incident later in the day, 11-year-old Fatima Marouf was martyred by Israeli gunfire in the town of Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. Another civilian sustained a bullet wound to the abdomen near Nasser Hospital in western Khan Yunis.
Israeli occupation aircraft carried out airstrikes east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip at dawn today. pic.twitter.com/0xauQcxnut
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Local sources reported continued Israeli assaults across the strip. Warplanes carried out three airstrikes east of Khan Yunis in the south, while helicopters and tanks shelled the city’s eastern approaches. A separate airstrike hit east of Deir al‑Balah in central Gaza, and another was reported in eastern Gaza City. In the south, a site in Rafah was targeted by an airstrike, accompanied by intensive gunfire from ground forces and naval gunboats.
The violations follow an attack late Friday, when a medical source at al‑Shifa Hospital in Gaza City reported that four Palestinians—including a woman and two children—were seriously injured. An Israeli drone dropped a bomb on a tent sheltering a displaced family outside army deployment areas in Beit Lahia’s al‑Atatira neighborhood. The drone strike was followed by artillery shelling targeting the same area.
Source: Palestinian media (translated and edited by Al-Manar)