Israel air strikes, demolitions hit Gaza despite ceasefire with Hamas

Palestinians face “dangerous” shortages of medicine and medical supplies, the director of Gaza’s Health Ministry warns, as Israel maintains strict curbs on humanitarian aid.
Israel carries out attacks on the Strip despite the ceasefire with Hamas, as the Palestinian group says it has retrieved the remains of a deceased Israeli soldier in Rafah.

Palestinians repurpose destroyed Israeli military vehicles in Gaza
Among Gaza’s dirt and debris, there’s also opportunity for the industrious.

Some communities have repurposed fuel and batteries from abandoned or damaged Israeli military vehicles to build improvised water generators.

Record number of Palestinians killed in West Bank since October 7, 2023
We earlier reported on the killing of Abdel Rahman Darawsha, who died of his wounds after Israeli forces opened fire in the Far’a refugee camp.

Darawsha is the latest Palestinian to be killed in the occupied West Bank amid a surge in Israeli settler and military violence in the shadow of Israel’s war on Gaza. Here’s what we know:

The UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territory said in a recent report that at least 1,001 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the area, including occupied East Jerusalem, since October 7, 2023 – the highest toll recorded in two decades.
One in five of those killed was a child, it said. The office also said that 43 percent of all Palestinians killed in the West Bank over the past two decades were killed in just the past year.
The report also found that 55 percent of the Palestinian victims hit by live fire were shot in the head or upper body, and that in more than 200 cases, Israeli forces blocked or delayed medical teams from reaching the wounded.
The Israeli military has carried out 108 air strikes in the West Bank, mostly on refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, Tubas, and Nablus, killing 445 Palestinians and displacing up to 40,000 people in large-scale, unprecedented incursions.
Israeli settler violence also has reached unprecedented levels, resulting in dozens of Palestinian deaths, with armed settlers often attacking alongside Israeli soldiers, and doing so with total impunity.
The attacks come as Netanyahu’s far-right government continues a policy of de facto annexation and illegal settlement expansion across the West Bank and East Jerusalem.