PALESTINE
Sun 02 Mar 2025 4:25 pm - Jerusalem Time
Gaza government: Israel violated ceasefire agreement more than 900 times since January 19
The government media office in Gaza announced on Sunday that the Israeli occupation army has committed more than 900 violations of the ceasefire agreement since it came into effect on January 19, resulting in the killing and wounding of hundreds of Palestinians in various governorates of the Strip.
Director General of the Government Media Office, Ismail Thawabtah, said, "The occupation committed more than 900 violations of the ceasefire agreement."
He added that these violations "included aerial and artillery bombardment, intensive drone flights, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid, shooting at citizens, demolishing homes, and targeting cars."
The violations also include "preventing the entry of fuel, obstructing the entry of civil defense vehicles and heavy machinery, and preventing the entry of 260,000 tents and caravans (prefabricated houses)."
Al-Thawabat called on the international community and mediators to pressure the Israeli occupation to stop its crimes and abide by its responsibilities in the ceasefire agreement.
Earlier on Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the total number of deaths since the ceasefire with Israel was declared in the Strip on January 19 had risen to 116 dead and more than 490 wounded.
For its part, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates warned, in a statement on Sunday, of the dangers of Israel stopping the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, and called for international pressure to force Tel Aviv to bring aid into the Strip "on a sustainable basis."
Commenting on the Israeli government's decision to stop the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the Foreign Ministry stressed its "rejection of politicizing aid and using it as a blackmail card, which would deepen the suffering of more than 2 million Palestinians on top of their already deep suffering, due to the war of extermination and displacement."
The Foreign Ministry called on the international community and all parties to "assume their responsibilities to force the Israeli government to allow aid into the Gaza Strip on a sustainable basis, and to prevent it from using the suffering of the Palestinians and employing hunger as a weapon to impose its political conditions."
The Israeli government's position on the ban on the entry of aid was met with severe criticism and attacks by the families of prisoners and politicians, as the leader of the Israeli opposition "Democrats" party, Yair Golan, said that it evaded negotiations regarding the second phase of the deal.
Following the decision to halt aid, Hamas said that halting humanitarian aid was "cheap blackmail, a war crime and a blatant coup against the agreement."
She called on mediators and the international community to "move to pressure the occupation and stop its punitive, immoral and genocidal measures by starvation against more than two million people in the Gaza Strip."
At midnight on Saturday/Sunday, the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, which lasted 42 days, officially ended, without Israel agreeing to enter the second phase and end the war.
Netanyahu is obstructing this, as he wanted to extend the first phase of the exchange deal to release the largest possible number of Israeli prisoners in Gaza, without providing anything in return for that or completing the military and humanitarian entitlements imposed in the agreement during the past period.
Hamas rejects this, and demands that Israel be bound by the provisions of the ceasefire agreement, and calls on the mediators to immediately begin negotiations for the second phase, which includes an Israeli withdrawal from the Strip and a complete cessation of the war.
On January 19, a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip and a prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel began, which includes three stages, each lasting 42 days, with the mediation of Egypt and Qatar and the support of the United States.
With American support, between October 7, 2023 and January 19, 2025, Israel committed genocide in Gaza, leaving about 160,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 14,000 missing.
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Gaza government: Israel violated ceasefire agreement more than 900 times since January 19