Israel Strikes Gaza On October 7 Anniversary, Three Dead Officials

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) GAZA CITY, NABLUS, Palestinian Territories - Israel carried out new strikes in Gaza on Wednesday as it marked the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks by Hamas, with Palestinian officials reporting three people dead.

Loud bangs across the border in Gaza were audible from the site of the Nova music festival just as family members gathered at dawn to mourn the more than 300 revellers killed three years earlier.

In Gaza City, Al Shifa hospital reported two people killed in an Israeli strike overnight.

Gaza's civil defence identified one of the dead as Mohamed Tamous and said he was a volunteer for the agency, which serves as an emergency rescue service under Hamas.

In the southern city of Khan Yunis, Nasser Hospital said that a 60-year-old man, Hisham Ibrahim Abu Mustafa, was killed in an Israeli strike and that others were injured.

A Palestinian man was killed and nine people were injured during an Israeli settler attack followed by army intervention in an occupied West Bank village on Wednesday, according to the mayor and the Palestinian health ministry.

The Palestinian health ministry said 44-year-old Ali Al Bazzari died and nine others were injured "as a result of an assault by occupation forces and settlers" on the village of Burqa, north of Nablus in the northern West Bank.

Al Bazzari was a member of the Palestinian National Security Forces, according to an obituary that it published on Wednesday.

AFP photos from Rafidia Hospital in Nablus showed his sons, wife and mother mourning over his body, with his sons in tears.

The incident occurred on the third anniversary of Hamas's October 7 attacks on Israel, which triggered the Gaza war.

Violence has surged in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, in the three years since.

Wednesday's attack took place as farmers from Burqa were picking olives on land between the cities of Nablus and Tulkarem, according to village mayor Ammar Salah.

"Clashes broke out between young men from the village and settlers before the [Israeli] occupation forces intervened and opened live fire at the Palestinians, killing the young man Al-Bazzari and injuring others," Salah told AFP.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said in separate statements that its teams treated three people wounded by live fire, one of them seriously, and five people injured after being assaulted and beaten in Burqa, and transported the injured to hospitals.

The organisation added that Israeli forces "assaulted and beat ambulance crews" and detained staff as they tried to reach the wounded in the area.

According to an AFP tally based on data from the Palestinian health ministry, Israeli forces or settlers have killed 1,115 Palestinians in the territory since the start of the Gaza war.

Excluding east Jerusalem, around three million Palestinians live in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, along with more than 500,000 Israelis living in settlements considered illegal under international law.

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