ISRAELI OCCUPIED GAZA, 01 March. - (ANA) - At least six people were killed by Israeli strikes targeting two police sites in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Friday morning.

 

Four people were killed in a strike on a police checkpoint in the Al-Maslakh area southwest of Khan Younis, sources at the Nasser Medical Complex said.

 

At least two more people were killed and another seriously injured in a strike on a police checkpoint north of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

 

Israel has regularly launched deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip ever since the ceasefire agreed last October, killing at least 642 people according to the Gaza Centre for Human Rights.

 

Hamas condemned the strikes as undermining efforts by mediators to move forward to the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire.

 

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem also said Israel was conducting a war of extermination against Palestinians in Gaza, although with changes to the form and method from previous efforts, and that promises by states guaranteeing the ceasefire "lacked any real substance on the ground", according to Al Jazeera.

 

Over the past two weeks, Israel has reduced the number of aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip and severely limited the supply of fuel in particular.

 

Around 600 aid trucks per day - representing the bare minimum required by the people of the Gaza Strip to survive – are supposed to enter the Gaza Strip under the October ceasefire deal, but Israel is continuing to hold supplies up.

 

There has been an incitement campaign in Israeli media against the aid deliveries, with unsubstantiated claims that Hamas controls the trucks.

 

Al Jazeera reported that 286 trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday, but only 112 were carrying aid, while 174 were commercial.

 

The World Central Kitchen, one of the largest providers of meals to displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, could halt its operations in the coming days due to the continued restrictions on aid trucks by Israel.

 

Other charities and aid organisations operating in the Gaza Strip are also facing an imminent shutdown.

 

Israel has ordered 37 aid groups to stop operations in the territory unless they submit personal data about their Palestinian staff to Israel by 1 March.

 

The groups, which include Doctors Without Borders, the Norwegian Refugee Council, CARE International and Oxfam, have warned that this would put their employees at risk and compromise their neutrality, while breaking European data protection rules, and that a halt to their operations would have devastating consequences for the people of Gaza.

 

"The effect would be immediate, extending well beyond individual organisations to the wider humanitarian system," Oxfam said in a statement last Tuesday.

 

Israel continues to occupy over half of the Gaza Strip, controlling areas beyond the so-called “Yellow Line”.

 

It has recently accelerated demolition operations in the area – destroying what remains of Palestinian homes there and bringing in private contractors to carry out the work. - (ANA) -

 

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