Gaza civil defense updates death toll of ‘Israeli’ strikes to 13

• Ceasefire Violations: Despite a fragile US-sponsored truce, ‘Israeli’ strikes killed at least 13 Palestinians on Thursday, including five children, bringing the total death toll to 425 since the October 10 ceasefire took effect.
• Retaliatory Claims: The ‘Israeli’ military claims the strikes were precise hits on a launch site following a failed projectile launch from Gaza City, while Hamas officials accused ‘Israel’ of a complete "renunciation" of the ceasefire agreement.

Gaza's civil defence agency said ‘Israeli’ attacks in the Palestinian territory on Thursday killed at least 13 people, including five children, despite a ceasefire that has largely halted the fighting.

Four people including three children were killed when a drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said.

In the north of the Gaza Strip, an 11-year-old girl was killed near the Jabalia refugee camp and a strike on a school killed one person, while a drone near Khan Yunis in the south killed a man, the agency added.

Two more Gazans, including a child, were killed in other attacks, reported the agency.

Later on Thursday evening, four more people were killed in an ‘Israeli’ air strike that targeted a house in an eastern area of Gaza City, Bassal said, adding that rescue work to search for several people who were missing had begun.

"The death toll has risen to 13 as a result of Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since this morning in a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement," Bassal said.

Earlier on Thursday, the ‘Israeli’ military claimed a projectile was launched "from the area of Gaza City toward the State of Israel" but that it fell within the Gaza Strip.

"Shortly after, the (military) precisely struck the launch point," it said in a statement.

Since October 10, a fragile US-sponsored truce in Gaza has partly halted the ‘Israeli’ assault.

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told AFP that the strikes in Gaza on Thursday "confirm the Israeli occupation's renunciation of its commitment to the ceasefire".

‘Israeli’ forces have killed at least 425 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect, according to Gaza's health ministry.

At least 21 people were killed on November 22 in ‘Israeli’ strikes, making it one of the deadliest days in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect.