One killed in Gaza as Turkey FM talks peace with Hamas leader | Israel-Palestine War News

Israel continues to violate the ‘cease fire’ agreed in October as hundreds more have been killed across the Strip.

A Palestinian man has been killed, and many others injured, after an Israeli drone struck a motorcycle west of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, amid Israel’s violation of a “ceasefire” agreement agreed in October.

A medical expert confirmed the death of Eyad al-Motawwaq on Saturday to the Anadolu news agency, as well as the injuries of unnamed people.

An Israeli pilot crashed a motorcycle west of the camp, outside the areas where Israeli soldiers were deployed under a so-called “ceasefire” agreement, witnesses told the agency.

Israel shelled areas east of Tuffah in Gaza on Saturday, Anadolu reported, although no casualties were confirmed.

Al Jazeera’s Tariq Abou Azzoum, who is from the Shati Camp in Gaza City on Friday, confirmed the airstrikes in the area, despite the fact that it was a “green line” designated by Israel that was meant to be a safe area for civilians. At least four people were injured.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said late Saturday that at least four people were killed and 15 others injured in the Strip in the past 48 hours. Some of the victims remained paralyzed as rescue teams tried to reach them, it added.

Trying to find lasting peace

Israel’s terrorist war in Gaza, since October 2023, has left 72,736 people dead and over 172,000 injured. About 90 percent of Gaza’s civilian population has also been destroyed, and nearly all of Gaza’s two million residents have been displaced.

Since the “end” in October, at least 850 Palestinians have been killed and another 2,433 injured in Israeli attacks, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

The Israeli army currently occupies about 60 percent of Gaza, which is currently bordered by the so-called “yellow line” buffer zone.

Security talks between Israel and Hamas have stalled, with Israeli military officials desperate to return to war because of Hamas’s opposition to surrendering weapons. On Wednesday, an Israeli plane killed Azzam al-Hayya, the son of Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya.

Meanwhile on Saturday, the Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, met with Muhammad Darwish, head of the advisory Hamas Shura Council, to discuss efforts to secure peace in Gaza, as well as ways to provide humanitarian aid to the Strip.

Turkish Foreign Ministry sources told Anadolu that at a meeting in Ankara, Fidan declared Israel’s expansion in Gaza and its ban on providing urgently needed aid as “unacceptable”.

Fidan also said that the ongoing war in the region should not overshadow the Palestinian issue, and added that Turkey opposes any attempt to force the Palestinians to leave Gaza, Anadolu said.