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Volume 30, Number 324 — Friday, November 21, 2025
The IDF’s Latest ‘Ceasefire’ Massacres
Israeli forces killed at least 28 Palestinians — including 17 children — in Gaza on Wednesday following their massacre of 13 Palestinians in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon
An Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip on Feb. 29. 2024. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0)
By Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams
Israel Defense Forces strikes killed at least 28 Palestinians including a woman and 17 children in the Gaza Strip Wednesday in the latest of what local officials say are over 400 Israeli violations of a tenuous ceasefire.
The IDF said it carried out strikes targeting neighborhoods in Gaza City and Khan Younis after “terrorists” opened fire on occupation troops — none of whom were harmed — in what the IDF called “a violation of the ceasefire agreement.”
Several terrorists opened fire toward IDF soldiers operating in Khan Yunis. This action constitutes a violation of the ceasefire agreement.
In response the IDF began striking terrorist targets across Gaza.
Gaza officials said that more than 100 people were also wounded in Wednesday’s attacks, including one which medical personnel said targeted a building housing displaced families in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
Hamas — which rules Gaza and led the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel— condemned the attacks as “a dangerous escalation” and refuted the IDF’s claim while accusing Israel of attempting to “justify its ongoing crimes and violations.”
Hamas also urged the United States to exert “immediate, serious pressure” on Israel to “respect the ceasefire and halt the aggression against our people.”
Israel’s military carried out deadly air strikes across Gaza yesterday, as the UN warned families lack adequate shelter for winter, with heavy rains flooding tents and damaging scarce food supplies.
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Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/7gw1h2Israeli forces also continued bombing southern Lebanon on Wednesday, a day after at least 13 people were killed in an IDF airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in Ain al-Hilweh near Sidon. Local officials said most of the victims were children playing soccer.
An F-15I Ra’am jet during the Israeli Air Force’s “Operation New Order” bombing campaign on Lebanon, Sept. 27, 2024. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0)
Israel has been accused of repeatedly violating its ceasefire agreements with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
[See: Craig Murray: Lebanon’s Teetering Ceasefire]
More than 300 Palestinians have been killed and over 750 others wounded in what officials say are nearly 400 Israeli violations of the October ceasefire with Hamas.
Since agreeing to a truce with Hezbollah in November 2024, Israeli forces have also killed at least 121 civilians, including 21 women and 16 children, in Lebanon, according to officials there.
Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah’s Beirut headquarters on Sept. 27, 2024. (Jimmyp84/Wikimedia Commons/ CC0)
Overall, Israel’s 775-day assault and siege on Gaza has left at least 249,000 Palestinians dead, maimed, or missing and millions more forcibly displaced, starved and sickened.
Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Lebanon killed more than 4,000 people, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. This figure includes at least 790 women and 316 children. More than 16,600 others have been wounded. Upward of 1.2 million Lebanese were also forcibly displaced by Israel’s attacks and invasion.
A day of ordinary ceasefire in Gaza: Israel killing 28 Palestinians amidst the silence of the states that just voted a ‘peace’ plan.
The neverending suffering of the Palestinians and the sinister politicking around it, are the shame of our times.
Brett Wilkins is a staff writer at Common Dreams.
