Three weeks after the Trump administration had announced the launch of phase two of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal, Israel’s violence against the Palestinian people in Gaza continues.

At least 24 Palestinians, including seven children, were killed in multiple assaults waged by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in different parts of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, February 4.

The massacre is not the first since the second phase of the truce agreement came into force, as it came a few days after the IOF had launched a series of airstrikes across the besieged enclave, killing over 30 people on Saturday, January 31.

Meanwhile, the United Nations revealed in a report on Wednesday that over 18,000 patients, including 4000 children and 4000 cancer patients, are still waiting for Israel to permit their departure from Gaza for medical treatment abroad.

Israel has insisted on blocking urgent medical cases from evacuating Gaza, despite the limited reopening of the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, February 1.

For its part, Hamas’s newly-formed special security force Rade’, said in a statement via its Telegram channel on Sunday, February 1, that its fighters carried out two separate ambush attacks in Gaza city, and the southern city of Khan Younis, leaving a number of Israeli-backed militia members dead or injured.

Rade’ added that its personnel confiscated the military equipment that some of the ambushed Israeli-recruited collaborators left behind before they ran away.

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Recent developments indicate that the enthusiasm which US President Donald Trump demonstrated about the ability of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) to run the daily affairs of the war-torn enclave in the near future, is a mere figment.

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