Medics in Gaza said Sunday that an Israeli drone strike killed a Palestinian man in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighborhood, where regime forces have been demolishing homes since morning.
The Israeli military claimed the victim had crossed a “yellow line” near its positions but offered no evidence.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, regime forces have killed at least 236 Palestinians and wounded more than 600 others since the supposed ceasefire began last month.
Another 502 bodies have been recovered from under the ruins of homes destroyed by Israel’s bombardment, bringing the overall death toll of the regime’s war to 68,856.
Hamas said it returned the remains of three Israeli captives through the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The office of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed receiving the bodies.
The Times of Israel reported that forensic identification would take up to two days at Tel Aviv’s Abu Kabir institute.
Under the exchange terms, Israel is obliged to return the bodies of 45 Palestinian prisoners — 15 for each Israeli handed over.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s health sector, crippled by the regime’s siege and destruction, is on the verge of collapse.
More than 16,500 patients requiring specialised treatment remain trapped in the blockaded territory, according to the World Health Organization.
A United Nations report showed that by September, Egypt had accepted nearly 4,000 Palestinian patients for medical treatment.
The UAE, Qatar, and Turkey took in 1,450, 970, and 437 patients respectively.
In Europe, Italy admitted 201 Palestinians — the highest among European nations — but thousands, including 3,800 children, still await evacuation.
A study in The Lancet exposed the staggering human toll of the regime’s war.
Researchers found Gaza had lost more than three million years of human life since October 2023, with an average of 51 years lost per person — most of them civilians.
More than one million of those years belonged to children under 15.
The authors said their estimates were conservative, excluding those dying from starvation, untreated illnesses, and infrastructure collapse under Israel’s siege.
With winter approaching, displaced Palestinians are scrambling to build makeshift shelters as the Israeli regime blocks construction materials.
Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim Al Khalili reported from Gaza City that families are resorting to mud and rubble to survive the cold.
Khalid al-Dahdouh, 42, a father of five, said his family built a primitive mud structure because “there’s no cement, no tents — nothing.”
“It protects us from the cold and the rain. Ceasefire or not, Gaza is still under attack,” he said.
His relative, Saif al-Bayek, said their ruined neighborhood forced them to build uneven shelters that leak when it rains.
UNDP representative Alessandro Mrakic said many families have no choice but to rely on “primitive methods” amid severe shortages.
With hundreds of thousands still displaced, aid groups warn the situation could worsen as temperatures fall.
Though bombardments have slowed, Gaza’s civilians remain trapped in hunger, homelessness, and fear — victims of a ceasefire that exists only in name under the Israeli regime’s ongoing aggression.