GAZA: At least three Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire on Saturday in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that the three injuries occurred when Israeli forces opened fire on a group of Palestinians north of Khan Younis.
Israeli military vehicles continued targeting east of Salah al-Din Street, near the Wadi Gaza bridge in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli operations in Gaza, while ongoing, appear to have decreased in intensity in recent days.
On Saturday, Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis reported three people injured by Israeli army gunfire.
The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,382 Palestinians killed and 174,236 injured since Oct. 7, 2023, according to medical sources.
The sources said that the total number of Palestinians killed since the ceasefire that took effect on Oct. 11 last year has reached 1,257, while the number of injuries has risen to 4,125.
A total of 806 bodies have also been recovered during the same period.
Medical sources noted that a number of victims remain trapped under the rubble and on roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews continue to face difficulties reaching them.
Hamas said on Saturday it remained ready to proceed with a US-backed Gaza peace plan and urged pressure on Israel, which insists it did not agree to the latest part of the deal.
Hamas informed US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace that it stood by the latest stage of the plan, under which the militants would hand over weapons to a nascent Palestinian governing committee in the war-battered territory.
“Hamas and other factions have confirmed to mediators their readiness to begin implementing the agreement and move to the second phase, provided it receives Israeli approval and that Israel begins implementing the agreement,” a Hamas official said.
“Hamas is urging the US administration to exert pressure on Israel to compel it to abide by the agreement and move to the second phase,” the official said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces a tough reelection fight in October and wide
opposition from his right-wing base to the Gaza deal, said on Tuesday that Israel had not agreed to the “draft” presented by the Board of Peace.
Trump last week had hailed as a breakthrough that Hamas had agreed to disarmament under the plan, with the Board of Peace saying Israel would in tandem carry out a phased withdrawal from much of Gaza.
Netanyahu met on Monday with the Board of Peace’s high representative for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, who backtracked and said Israel would withdraw only after a full disarmament by Hamas.
Israel’s military also vowed to keep hitting Hamas.
