New massacre in al-Zaytoun neighborhood as Israeli ceasefire violations continue into second week

The Israeli military carried out a horrific massacre late last night after striking a small minibus belonging to the Abu Shaaban family on the outskirts of the al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City, killing all members of the family, in a new breach of the ceasefire agreement entering its second week.

According to local sources, the victims in the massacre were:

Ihab Nasser Abu Shaaban (38) – the husband

Randa Majid Muhammad Abu Shaaban (36) – the wife

The children: Nasser (13), Jumana (10), Ibrahim (6), Muhammad (5).

Also killed were the husband’s sister Samar Muhammad Nasser Abu Shaaban and her husband Sufyan Othman Shaaban and their three children: Nasma (12), Karam (10), Anas (8).

At the same time, Israeli warboats opened fire at a group of fishermen off Gaza Port, while a woman was wounded after being targeted by an Israeli drone in the town of Abasan al-Jadida east of Khan Younis. Shooting also spread to the vicinity of the eastern border of the al-Maghazi camp and the town of al-Masdar in the central Strip, and east of the Shujayya neighborhood in Gaza City.

Israeli reconnaissance aircraft continued to fly intensively over the Strip, alongside intermittent artillery shelling in several areas.

Separately, the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, handed over the body of an Israeli soldier who was captured on October 7, 2023, as part of its commitments under the ceasefire agreement.

Since October 7, 2023, some 68,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 170,000 injured, while the fate of another 10,000 remains unknown, in one of the deadliest wars on the Gaza Strip.