Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

Israeli forces shot and killed at least three Palestinians in separate incidents in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on Sunday, local health authorities said.

Medics reported that the dead included a 15‑year‑old boy, a fisherman killed outside areas still occupied by Israel in the enclave, and a third man who was shot and killed east of the city in areas under Israeli control.

The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the reported incidents.

Israel has carried out repeated air strikes since a ceasefire took effect in October, saying they are aimed at preventing attacks or destroying militant infrastructure.

Gaza’s health ministry says 420 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire began, while militants have killed three Israeli soldiers.

Israeli occupation forces have been carrying out widespread demolitions in various areas across the Gaza Strip since Sunday morning, Wafa News Agency reported, citing sources.

A massive explosion rocked the eastern areas of Gaza City, where a residential block was blown up by the Israeli occupation military.

Another demolition was conducted in the eastern and northern parts of Gaza City, in areas of Khan Younis and Rafah.

Israeli forces shot and killed at least three Palestinians in separate incidents in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on Sunday, local health authorities said.

Medics reported that the dead included a 15‑year‑old boy, a fisherman killed outside areas still occupied by Israel in the enclave, and a third man who was shot and killed east of the city in areas under Israeli control.

The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the reported incidents.

Israel has carried out repeated air strikes since a ceasefire took effect in October, saying they are aimed at preventing attacks or destroying militant infrastructure.

An eleven-year-old Palestinian girl was shot to death by Israeli soldiers in the town of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, reported Wafa News Agency, citing sources.

The incident was reported after a morning firing of Israeli forces that had left a child killed and two others injured in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood and the backyard of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, respectively.

Despite the ceasefire, Israeli oppression continued in Gaza, at least 418 have been killed and 1,171 injured since the Trump-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, Wafa News Agency reported, adding that at least 684 bodies have also been recovered.

Medical sources said that they recovered three bodies beneath rubble during the past 48 hours.

The death toll rose to 71,384, including mostly women and children, since October 2023, Wafa News Agency reported.

At least 171,251 others have been injured in the same period.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on Friday for Israel to end a ban on humanitarian agencies that provided aid in Gaza, saying he was "deeply concerned" at the development.

Guterres "calls for this measure to be reversed, stressing that international non-governmental organizations are indispensable to life-saving humanitarian work and that the suspension risks undermining the fragile progress made during the ceasefire," his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.

"This recent action will further exacerbate the humanitarian crisis facing Palestinians," he added.

Israel on Thursday suspended 37 foreign humanitarian organisations from accessing the Gaza Strip after they had refused to share lists of their Palestinian employees with government officials.

The ban includes Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which has 1,200 staff members in the Palestinian territories — the majority of whom are in Gaza.

NGOs included in the ban have been ordered to cease their operations by March 1.

Several NGOS have said the requirements contravene international humanitarian law or endanger their independence.

Israel says the new regulation aims to prevent bodies it accuses of supporting terrorism from operating in the Palestinian territories.

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“I couldn’t endure it,” the actor said, recalling the moment. “There was no expression on his face. He was already used to death.”

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would have a phone call with US President Donald Trump on Monday to discuss peace efforts between Ukraine and Russia as well as issues surrounding Gaza.

Speaking to reporters in Istanbul on Friday, Erdogan also said Turkiye's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will attend a meeting of the "Coalition of the Willing", a group of nations backing Ukraine, in Paris in coming days.