Israel kills four Palestinians as attacks continue despite Gaza ceasefire

At slightest 4 Palestinians person been killed and respective much wounded crossed Gaza arsenic Israeli forces continued to occurrence connected neighbourhoods contempt the ceasefire, according to infirmary officials who spoke to Al Jazeera.

One of the victims connected Monday was a Palestinian antheral deed by an Israeli drone successful Bani Suheila, eastbound of Khan Younis, successful an country lying beyond the alleged “yellow line”, the bound Israel uses to people zones nether its subject control.

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Al Jazeera’s teams connected the crushed reported that Israeli attacks persisted passim the day, with artillery, aerial raids and chopper strikes recorded successful some bluish and confederate Gaza.

In Beit Lahiya, Israeli occurrence deed areas extracurricular the yellowish line. In the south, tanks and helicopters targeted territory northeast of Rafah and the outskirts of Khan Younis.

Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum said determination were “extensive Israeli attacks beyond the yellowish enactment that person led to the systematic demolition of Gaza’s eastbound neighbourhoods”.

Testimonies gathered by families, helium added, constituent to a “systematic effort to destruct Gaza’s neighbourhoods and make buffer zones, making these areas wholly uninhabitable, which complicates a instrumentality for families”.

In cardinal Gaza, civilian defence teams, operating with constabulary and Red Cross support, recovered the bodies of 8 members of a azygous household from the rubble of their location successful the Maghazi camp, the Palestinian Wafa quality bureau reported, which was struck successful an earlier Israeli attack.

A Palestinian antheral walks among the ruins of destroyed buildings successful Gaza City [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

The Gaza Government Media Office said the fig of bodies retrieved since the ceasefire began has present reached 582, portion much than 9,500 Palestinians stay missing beneath the ruins of bombed-out districts.

Hamas’s equipped wing, meanwhile, announced it had recovered the assemblage of an Israeli captive successful Nuseirat campy successful cardinal Gaza.

That leaves the bodies of 2 captives inactive to beryllium recovered nether the archetypal signifier of the Gaza ceasefire deal. Hamas has said the wide demolition has hampered efforts to find the remaining bodies.

Also connected Monday, the GHF, a US-backed entity that operated parallel to United Nations assistance structures, announced the extremity of its activities successful Gaza.

The organisation cited provisions successful the October ceasefire arsenic the crushed for its withdrawal.

UN experts accidental astatine slightest 859 Palestinians were killed astir GHF organisation points since May 2025, with Israeli forces and overseas contractors regularly opening occurrence connected crowds desperately seeking food.

The strategy drew wide condemnation for bypassing established humanitarian channels.

Israeli attacks connected the West Bank

Across the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces stepped up raids overnight, arresting astatine slightest 16 Palestinians, according to Wafa. Arrests were reported successful Iktaba adjacent Tulkarem, successful Tuqu southeast of Bethlehem, successful Kobar adjacent Ramallah, and successful Silat al-Harithiya westbound of Jenin.

Israeli troops besides detained residents successful Tubas and the surrounding areas.

Violence escalated further connected Sunday nighttime erstwhile Israeli forces killed a 20-year-old instrumentality student, Baraa Khairi Ali Maali, successful Deir Jarir, northbound of Ramallah.

Wafa reported that clashes erupted aft Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes connected the village’s outskirts. Fathi Hamdan, caput of the section council, said troops entered the colony to support the settlers, past opened occurrence connected Palestinians confronting them.

Mourners commune adjacent to the assemblage of 1 of 2 Palestinians killed by Israeli occurrence successful Khan Younis successful the confederate Gaza Strip [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]

Maali suffered a gunshot coiled to the thorax and died soon aft accomplishment astatine hospital. His sidesplitting follows the fatal shooting of different young antheral by settlers successful Deir Jarir past month.

Elsewhere successful the West Bank, Israeli soldiers injured 2 Palestinian women and detained 2 brothers during a raid successful Kafr Qaddum, eastbound of Qalqilya.

Settler attacks besides continued. Fires were acceptable connected cultivation onshore betwixt Atara and Birzeit, northbound of Ramallah, destroying farmland belonging to residents.

In a abstracted incidental successful Atara, settlers from a recently established outpost torched olive trees and stole farming equipment.

Israeli settler unit has surged implicit the past 2 years; since October 7, 2023, astatine slightest 1,081 Palestinians person been killed successful the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces and settlers, including 223 children, with much than 10,614 wounded and much than 20,500 arrested.

Israeli ceasefire violations successful Lebanon

In Lebanon, Hezbollah held a ceremonial for elder commandant Haytham Ali Tabatabai, assassinated by Israel connected Sunday.

Images from Beirut’s confederate suburbs showed mourners carrying his coffin, wrapped successful yellowish and green, arsenic Hezbollah flags lined the streets. The radical has not yet announced however it volition respond.

Mahmoud Qmati, vice president of Hezbollah’s Political Council, called the sidesplitting “yet different ceasefire violation”, accusing Israel of escalating the struggle “with the greenish airy fixed by the United States”.

Security expert Ali Rizk said Hezbollah is weighing its options carefully, informing that the radical is improbable to “give Netanyahu an excuse to motorboat an all-out warfare against Lebanon”, which helium said could beryllium much devastating than the existent constricted exchanges.

Hezbollah fighters rise their group’s flags and chant slogans arsenic they be the ceremonial procession of Hezbollah’s main of staff, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, and 2 different Hezbollah members who were killed successful Sunday’s Israeli aerial onslaught successful a confederate suburb of Beirut  [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]

Geopolitical expert Joe Macaron said the US is “no longer restraining Israel” and is alternatively supporting Israeli operations successful Syria, Gaza and Lebanon.

Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said that Hezbollah, successful turn, faces a strategical dilemma: retaliation could hazard a monolithic Israeli assault, yet inaction could erode its deterrence.

Imad Salamey of the Lebanese American University said immoderate Hezbollah effect could beryllium met with a “severe” Israeli reaction.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, helium added that Israel’s right-wing authorities “is anxious to escalate due to the fact that escalation volition service that authorities staying successful power”.

Salamey argued that Hezbollah’s deterrence capableness has been “severely damaged” and that the radical “no longer has the enactment it utilized to person oregon the logistical routes it utilized to utilise via Syria”.