The Israeli Army Launches Raids and Artillery Bombardment East of Gaza

On Friday evening, the Israeli army launched airstrikes and artillery bombardment on various areas east of Gaza City, within the areas it still controls under the ceasefire agreement.

This comes as part of the ongoing Israeli violations of the agreement that entered into force on October 10, 2025.

Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli army carried out two consecutive airstrikes east of the Zaytoun neighborhood east of Gaza City, while Israeli artillery shelled various areas of the Sanafur junction in the Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City.

These violations came hours after a Palestinian was martyred by occupation gunfire in the Jabalia camp north of the Gaza Strip, within the areas from which Israel withdrew under the agreement.

This also came in the wake of Egypt accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of seeking to obstruct the implementation of the second phase of the agreement and attempting to ignite the region.

The second phase of the agreement includes several essential files, most notably reconstruction, expanding the Israeli withdrawal, forming a technocratic committee to manage the sector, disarming Hamas, in addition to forming a peace council and establishing international forces.

Israel is shirking its commitments stipulated in the first phase of the agreement, most notably stopping hostile actions, as it continues to fire and bomb in scattered areas of the sector, resulting since October 11 until Wednesday in the killing of 406 Palestinians and injuring 1,118 others.

The agreement ended a war of genocide launched by Israel on October 10, 2023 with American support and lasted two years, leaving about 71,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 171,000 injured, and massive destruction affecting 90% of the infrastructure with a reconstruction cost estimated by the United Nations at around 70 billion dollars.