2 killed, 7 injured as Israeli forces open fire on Gazans waiting to return home
Despite a ceasefire agreement, Israeli forces have opened fire on Palestinians who are massed near a military barrier preventing them from heading to their homes in the north.
At least two people were killed and seven injured, including a child, by Israeli gunfire on Sunday, medics said.
They said Israeli forces killed a young Palestinian and injured two in the west of the Nusairat refugee camp in central Gaza on Sunday.
The military forces also shot and killed a young man in central Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to medics, the regime's forces opened fire on a group of displaced civilians waiting in the cold to be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gaza.
Military vehicles, positioned along the Netzarim Corridor-- which separates northern and southern Gaza-- blocked the road to Palestinians, who had expected to be able to walk north following a second phase of the prisoner exchange on Saturday evening.
Hamas said in an earlier statement that by blocking the return of displaced Palestinians, Israel violated the ceasefire agreement that took effect on January 19 to end 15 months of a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing by the Israeli regime.
"The Israeli occupation is delaying the implementation of the terms of the agreement.”
Israel said it will not allow the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza until Israeli female abductee Arbel Yehud is released.
Hamas has so far released seven captives in return for 290 Palestinian abductees. It said the officials had informed the mediators that Yehud was alive and had provided all necessary guarantees for her release.
According to the latest figures provided by the Gaza Health Ministry on Sunday, the death toll from the regime’s hostilities has now reached 47,306.
The ministry said hospitals had received 23 bodies in the past 72 hours -- 14 "recovered from under the rubble", five who "succumbed to their injuries" from earlier, and four new fatalities. It did not specify how the new fatalities occurred.
According to aid groups and health officials, thousands of bodies are still under the rubble and on the roads, and the ambulance and civil defense teams are unable to reach them.
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