THREE members of the Abdeen family were killed by an Israeli strike on al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis, yesterday as the occupation army broke the Gaza ceasefire for the 323rd consecutive day.
Israeli tanks stepped up fire on the Tuffah neighbourhood east of Gaza City, naval vessels shot at the coastline and the waters off the north west of the city, and artillery struck north east of the Bureij camp, south of Khan Younis and Rafah.
Military vehicles surrounded a family on Toutha Street in Zeitoun while bulldozers dug up the ground around them.
Since the ceasefire signed at Sharm el-Sheikh took effect on October 11, the health ministry in Gaza has recorded 1,303 Palestinians killed and 4,336 wounded, with 814 bodies recovered.
The toll since October 7, 2023, stands at 73,438 killed and 174,447 wounded.
Detention has expanded on the same scale. More than 22,000 administrative detention orders have been issued or renewed since the war began, and the number of Palestinians held without charge has climbed from about 1,300 before the war to more than 3,300 this month, the highest in decades.
Of the 9,400 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, 3,244 are held under the policy, a figure that excludes those in military camps.
Riyad al-Ashqar, director of the Palestine Centre for Prisoners Studies, said 99 per cent of appeals against extensions are thrown out, frequently without reasons given, with Shin Bet reviewing the files.
Detainees and their lawyers are barred from seeing the secret files used against them, leaving the appeal, he said, a symbolic exercise.
Orders issued this week against 29 prisoners from Jenin, Tubas, Tulkarm, Jericho, al-Bireh, Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Qalqilya run from two to six months.
Eighty-eight women are held at Damon prison, among them two pregnant women without adequate care or food, three in solitary confinement, two girls isolated from the others and an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s.
Released prisoners have described strip searches, sleep deprivation, confiscated medication and scabies spreading through overcrowded cells.
