A four-year-old dies in Bureij as Katz treats kites as drones
Israeli strikes killed at least four people in Gaza on Monday, including a four-year-old boy in Bureij, as Defence Minister Israel Katz said kites from Gaza would be treated like drones even without explosives.
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A four-year-old boy was killed in the Bureij camp
Israeli strikes and tank fire killed at least four people across Gaza on Monday, among them a four-year-old boy in the Bureij refugee camp, hospital officials said. After evacuation warnings from Israel's military, a strike hit a building in the Bureij camp in central Gaza; one family could not flee and its four-year-old was killed, while his mother and sister were wounded. The account came from Awda Hospital, where the boy was taken; there was no Israeli military comment on that strike. The deaths came a week after a US delegation asked Israel to scale back its attacks.[1]
The military claimed mosque weapons stores in Shati and Deir al-Balah
The Israeli military said it had struck the Shati camp in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah after issuing warnings, targeting what it described as two Hamas weapons stores inside mosques and saying they held dozens of Kalashnikov rifles, magazines and additional military equipment; it provided no evidence. An earlier strike on a tent in Deir al-Balah killed a man, according to Al-Aqsa Hospital. The military said the dead man was a militant affiliated with Hamas' special forces unit.[1]
Katz treats a kite as a drone, explosives or not
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Monday that forceful actions would be taken to put an end to kites, drones and balloons launched from Gaza. Four kites were found at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Gaza border, on Friday and Saturday. The kites found over the weekend in an Israeli community near the border carried no explosives, and the military said they posed no threat. Katz warned of zero tolerance and said a balloon is treated like a kite, and a kite is treated like a drone, with or without explosives. Hamas denied responsibility, said the kites belonged to children in the rubble, and accused Israel of using them as a pretext for continued air strikes despite the ceasefire agreed in October. On Sunday, Palestinian health officials said two people were killed and seven injured in two Israeli strikes on Nuseirat refugee camp and the town of al-Zawayda in central Gaza.[2]
