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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) \u2014 Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 21 Palestinians, including two infants, and further rocking a fragile ceasefire deal<\/a>, hospital officials said. Israel said it was responding to a militant attack on Israeli soldiers that seriously wounded one.<\/p>\n

Deadly Israeli strikes<\/a> have repeatedly punctuated the truce since it came into effect on Oct. 10, and the escalating Palestinian toll<\/a> has made many in Gaza say it feels like the war is continuing unabated. Among the Palestinians killed Wednesday were five children, seven women and an on-duty paramedic, according to hospital officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe genocidal war against our people in the Gaza Strip continues,\u201d said Dr. Mohamed Abu Selmiya, director of Gaza City\u2019s Shifa Hospital<\/a>, in a Facebook post. \u201cWhere is the ceasefire? Where are the mediators?\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel strongly denies accusations that it is committing genocide<\/a> in Gaza. The war began<\/a> on Oct. 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led militants poured into southern Israel after a surprise barrage of rockets, killing 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and abducting 251.<\/p>\n

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Deadly strikes have continued despite ceasefire deal<\/p>\n

The deal attempted to halt the more than 2-year-old war between Israel and Hamas. While the heaviest fighting has subsided, it has been marred by repeated flareups of violence. <\/p>\n

A total of 556 Palestinians have been killed by Israel and 1,500 wounded since the ceasefire went into effect, according to Gaza health officials, while Israel\u2019s military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed. <\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s military has said its continuing strikes are responses to Hamas violations or militant attacks on its soldiers, but dozens of civilians have died. Eight Arab and Muslim countries, including mediators Egypt and Qatar, recently condemned what they called Israel\u2019s \u201crepeated violations\u201d of the deal.<\/p>\n

An Israeli military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity in line with military policy, told The Associated Press that Israel\u2019s latest attacks were in response to militant gunfire that badly wounded a reservist soldier Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Early morning strike kills 11, including two children<\/p>\n

Israeli troops fired on a building in the Tuffah neighborhood in north Gaza, killing at least 11 people, most from the same family, said Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies. The dead included two parents, their 10-day-old girl, her 5-month-old cousin and the children\u2019s grandmother.<\/p>\n

Mourners gathered in the courtyard of Shifa hospital Wednesday morning for funeral prayers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did this child do? \u2026. Why are they killing the children?\u201d asked a relative of the family, Mohammad Jaser.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t understand why this is happening to us. What do we do? Where do we go? This isn\u2019t life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Two young children were seen kneeling at the body of their father as a woman told them to bid him farewell. A young girl kissed her father\u2019s cheeks.<\/p>\n

Strikes on Gaza continue into Wednesday afternoon<\/p>\n

Later, an Israeli strike on a family\u2019s tent in the southern city of Khan Younis killed three people including a 12-year-old boy, said Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies. Tank shelling in Gaza City\u2019s eastern neighborhood of Zaytoun killed another three Palestinians, according to Shifa Hospital. <\/p>\n

A strike on a tent in the Muwasi area of Khan Younis killed at least two people and wounded five others, according to a field hospital run by the Palestinian Red Crescent in the area. The dead included Hussein Hassan Hussein al-Semieri, a paramedic who was on duty at the time, said the hospital.<\/p>\n

Thirty-eight Palestinians were wounded in total by the strikes Wednesday, the Gaza health ministry said.<\/p>\n

Passage through Rafah border is minimal<\/p>\n

The Rafah border crossing\u2019s opening Monday was hailed as a step forward for the fragile ceasefire<\/a>. But since then, Palestinian passage through the crossing has been marred by delays, interrogations and uncertainty<\/a> over who would be allowed to cross.<\/p>\n

It took the entire day Tuesday for 40 Palestinians to enter Gaza. Around 1 a.m. Wednesday, they finally arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where their families welcomed them. By midday Wednesday, no one else had passed through the crossing. <\/p>\n

Three women who crossed into Gaza on Monday told The Associated Press a day later that Israeli troops blindfolded and handcuffed them, then interrogated and threatened them, holding them for several hours before they were released.<\/p>\n

Asked about the reports, the Israeli military said that \u201cno incidents of inappropriate conduct, mistreatment, apprehensions, or confiscation of property by the Israeli security establishment are known.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ceasefire deal plods forward<\/p>\n

While all fighting has not stopped, some parts of the ceasefire deal have moved forward. <\/p>\n

Hamas has released all of the hostages it was holding, and in return Israel has released several thousand Palestinians and is beginning to reopen Rafah. Increased amounts of humanitarian aid have flowed into Gaza and a new technocratic committee has been appointed to administer the territory\u2019s daily affairs.<\/p>\n

But other key elements of the ceasefire appear to have stalled, including the deployment of an international security force, the disarmament of Hamas and the reconstruction of Gaza. The U.S. has given no timeline on when these parts of the deal will wrap up. <\/p>\n

Over 71,800 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war, according to the Gaza health ministry, which does not distinguish between fighters and civilians. The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts.<\/p>\n

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Magdy reported from Cairo and Frankel from Jerusalem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) \u2014 Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 21 Palestinians, including…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":565674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[97,245,70,4526,57,4527,246566,99,3462,373,3463,129050,246567,50,9598,235115,96,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-565673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","9":"tag-children","10":"tag-gaza","11":"tag-gaza-strip","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-hamas","14":"tag-hussein-hassan-hussein-al-semieri","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-israel-government","17":"tag-israel-hamas-war","18":"tag-mideast-wars","19":"tag-mohamed-abu-selmiya","20":"tag-mohammad-jaser","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-palestinian-territories-government","23":"tag-send-to-apple-news","24":"tag-war-and-unrest","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116012465972554873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}