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GAZA CITY: Gaza’s civil defense agency said a series of Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed at least 33 people across the territory, as Israel and Hamas traded blame for violating a ceasefire.
Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman for the agency, which operates as a rescue service under Hamas authority, said six of the victims were killed when an Israeli strike targeted a “group of civilians” in Zuwaida town in central Gaza.
Six other people, including children, were killed and 13 others injured in two separate strikes near Nuseirat in central Gaza, Bassal said.
The fatalities were confirmed by Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital and Al-Awda hospital.
A woman and two children were killed when a drone strike hit a tent housing displaced people near Asdaa City, north of Khan Yunis.
Two people, including a journalist, were killed and several others injured in an Israeli strike in the western part of Zuwaida town in central Gaza.
In another attack, two people were killed and several injured when an Israeli strike hit a tent in the Al-Ahli Club area in Nuseirat, central Gaza, Bassal said.
Two more people were killed in an Israeli air strike in eastern Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, he added.
The Israeli military told AFP it was checking reports of casualties.
Later on Sunday, the Israeli military said it had launched fresh strikes on Hamas targets in southern Gaza.
Israel has also closed its crossing points into Gaza to aid convoys, a security official told AFP on Sunday, accusing Hamas of breaking a truce.
“The transfer of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip has been halted until further notice, following Hamas’s blatant violation of the agreement,” the official said.

LONDON: A Palestinian detainee died at Israel’s Assaf Harofeh Hospital on Sunday, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society announced.

Israeli forces had arrested Mahmoud Talal Abdullah, 49, on Feb. 1 in the Jenin refugee camp, which has been the site of Israeli military operations since January.

The PPS said that Abdullah’s health had severely deteriorated following his arrest, and it was eventually confirmed that he had cancer. He was transferred from Megiddo Prison to Gilboa Prison and later to the Ramla Prison clinic.

Israeli authorities kept him in detention, despite confirming his advanced-stage cancer, and he died the day after being transferred to Assaf Harofeh Hospital, the PPS added.

Abdullah had spent two years in Israeli prisons during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which lasted from 2000 to 2005.

The PPS said that Abdullah’s death added to the “series of crimes carried out by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian detainees as part of its ongoing genocidal war,” reported the Palestine News Agency.

His death raised to 79 the number of known prisoners and detainees who have died since the Israeli action in Gaza began in 2023.