
File Photo: Israeli soldiers in the Zeitoun district of the southern part of Gaza City. AFP
In a statement, the occupation army said Israeli troops in southern Gaza "identified several armed suspects who posed a threat" and "operated to thwart the threat," killing a member from Hamas ally Islamic Jihad.
The Palestinian health ministry in confirmed that one person was killed and said four other people were wounded.
The occupation army claimed, nevertheless, that it was abiding by the terms of the ceasefire that began on Sunday.
Wafa news agency reported a similar incident after Israeli forces shot and killed a 12-year-old Palestinian child in the southern city of Rafah on Monday, just two days after the ceasefire began.
Video of the assault shows Israeli forces opening fire on another person attempting to retrieve the child's limp body.
Local sources confirmed to Wafa that Zakariya Barbakh was killed near the Al-Awda roundabout in central Rafah, and another child was injured while attempting to recover Barbakh's body.
The same day, a Palestinian man and a child were also killed, and nine others, including children, were injured by Israeli gunfire in Rafah city.
The ceasefire deal came into effect at 11:15 am on Sunday, 19 January, after 470 days of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, in which Israeli occupation forces killed nearly 47,000 people, most of whom were children and women, according to a preliminary toll.
As part of the first phase of the ceasefire, which is intended to last 42 days, Israeli forces are withdrawing from densely populated areas in the Gaza Strip.
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