Children under Israeli attack in Gaza amid ceasefire

International Desk :

A child has been killed by Israeli forces near al-Awda Square in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Information Center.

The agency said another child was shot and injured by the Israeli army east of Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood on Monday. Israeli forces kill child in southern Gaza’s Rafah city says report Qatar, a key mediator in the Gaza conflict, said on Tuesday that Palestinians — not outsiders — must decide the territory’s future after the Israel-Hamas war.

Foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari told a Doha news conference that the issue was “a Palestinian question”, after Israel insisted on removing Hamas and the United States proposed taking over the territory, reports AFP and Al Jazeera.

“From our perspective, this is a Palestinian question on what happens post this conflict,” said Ansari when asked about Israel’s stated objective to eliminate Hamas. “It is a Palestinian question on who represents the Palestinians in an official capacity and also the political groups and parties in the political sphere,” he said.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said earlier Tuesday that negotiations for the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire, which Qatar helped broker, would begin this week.