Israel fires mortar into Gaza residential area, wounding at least 10

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s subject connected Wednesday said troops fired a mortar ammunition into a Palestinian residential country successful the Gaza Strip, successful the latest incidental to stone the tenuous ceasefire with Hamas. Health officials said astatine slightest 10 people, were wounded, and the service said it was investigating.

The subject said the mortar was fired during an cognition successful the country of the “Yellow Line,” which was drawn successful the ceasefire statement that divides the Israeli-held bulk of Gaza from the remainder of the territory.

The subject did not accidental what troops were doing oregon whether they had crossed the line. It said the mortar had veered from its intended target, which it did not specify.

Fadel Naeem, manager of Al-Ahli Hospital successful Gaza City, said the infirmary received 10 radical wounded successful the incident.

It was not the archetypal clip since the ceasefire took effect connected Oct. 10 that Israeli occurrence has caused Palestinian casualties extracurricular the Yellow Line. Palestinian wellness officials person reported implicit 370 deaths from Israeli occurrence since the truce.

Israel has said it has opened occurrence successful effect to Hamas violations, and says astir of those killed person been Hamas militants. But an Israeli subject official, speaking connected information of anonymity successful enactment with subject protocol, said the service is alert of a fig of incidents wherever civilians were killed, including young children and a household traveling successful a van.

Palestinians accidental civilians person been killed successful immoderate cases due to the fact that the enactment is poorly marked. Israeli troops person been laying down yellowish blocks to delineate it, but successful immoderate areas the blocks person not yet been placed.

The Israel-Hamas ceasefire is struggling to scope its adjacent phase, with some sides accusing each different of violations. The archetypal signifier progressive the speech of hostages for Palestinian prisoners. The 2nd is expected to impact the deployment of an planetary stabilization force, a technocratic governing assemblage for Gaza, the disarmament of Hamas and further Israeli unit withdrawals from the territory.

The remains of 1 hostage, Ran Gvili, are inactive successful Gaza, and the militants look to beryllium struggling to find it. Israel is demanding the instrumentality of Gvili's remains earlier moving to the 2nd phase.

Hamas is calling for much planetary unit connected Israel to unfastened cardinal borderline crossings, cease deadly strikes and let much assistance into the strip.

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