Israeli forces continued to violate the fraudulent ceasefire in Gaza this week, killing Palestinians and reimposing a total closure of the crossings to humanitarian aid, food, fuel and medicine.
In the town of Bani Suheila near Khan Younis on Wednesday, Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians, Montaser Samour and Maher Samour. According to local news sources, an Israeli military unit abducted the two men and took them across the so-called yellow line, detained them, and shot them.
Reporter Tamer Qeshta captured video footage and eyewitness testimony from residents who said that the Israeli army returned Montaser Samour’s body riddled with bullets, while Maher Samour was shot and killed in what witnesses described as a field execution.
The news agency Anadolu reported that earlier in the day, heavy gunfire from Israeli military vehicles stationed east of the so-called yellow line was reported in those areas near Khan Younis, and that Israeli artillery also targeted neighborhoods east of Gaza City while Israeli gunboats fired toward the coastline.
Last week – early on 27 February – Israeli warplanes targeted a Palestinian police checkpoint at the entrance to the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least one police officer and injuring another, according to the Palestinian interior and national security ministry.
The health ministry in Gaza reported on 4 March that since the so-called ceasefire went into effect nearly five months ago, at least 633 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,700 have been injured.
In the same time period, the health ministry stated that more than 750 bodies of Palestinians have been recovered from underneath the rubble after more than two years of genocide.
The civil defense corps in northern Gaza stated this week that they had finished a nine-day operation that they called the Dignity of Martyrs campaign, in which they recovered 93 bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes and buried beneath collapsed homes.
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