Slow progress in Gaza truce as Israeli-Hamas violence persists

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in Gaza near the line demarcating areas of Israeli control on Nov 24, underlining the struggle to broaden a fragile ceasefire deal approved over six weeks ago to global acclaim.

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A Palestinian man carrying an injured child at a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Nov 22. Medics said the latest incidents on Nov 24 involved an Israeli drone firing a missile at a group of people east of Khan Younis, killing two and wounding another, and a tank shell killing a person on the eastern side of Gaza City.

(PHOTO: AFP)

Palestinian medics said Nov 24’s incidents involved an Israeli drone firing a missile at a group of people east of Khan Younis, killing two and wounding another, and a tank shell killing a person on the eastern side of Gaza City.

Israel’s military said it had fired after identifying what it called “terrorists” crossing the so-called yellow line and approaching its troops, posing an immediate threat to them.

Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel signed a truce on Oct 9 halting two years of devastating warfare, but the agreement left the most intractable disputes for further talks, freezing the conflict without resolving it.