Gaza Death Toll Continues to Mount Under Israeli Ceasefire
In the aftermath of an Israeli strike on the Bani Suheila neighborhood on the outskirts of Khan Yunis, two brothers—11-year-old Jumaa and 8-year-old Fadi Abu Asi—were killed. The boys had ventured into an “Israeli-controlled” area beyond what’s referred to as the “yellow line” in order to collect firewood for their father, who is wheelchair-bound. Their small bodies were carried back to their family, who beat their chests and wept in grief, their cries echoing through the air like a collective indictment of a world that has normalized Palestinian suffering to the point of abstraction. This is the stark reality behind what Israel insists on calling a “ceasefire,” a term that now functions less as a description of reduced hostilities and more as a political fiction masking a continuation of lethal force that has already taken at least 352 lives and left nearly 1,000 injured since October 11, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
Two Palestinian bothers the children, Fadi Abu Asi (8 years old) and Tamer Abu Asi ( 11 years old) were bothkilled today by the Israeli bombardment of Khan Younes in another Israeli violation of the ceasefire agreement. Since October 10th when the ceasefire agreement became… pic.twitter.com/6GkXtU4ZZO