Israeli fighter jets carried out a series of successive airstrikes on Monday, striking several areas across the Gaza Strip and causing several injuries alongside extensive damage to infrastructure and essential public facilities. The strikes come amid mounting concern over repeated violations of the ceasefire agreement that has governed the territory since its first phase took effect.
In Gaza City, an airstrike destroyed the Asqalan prayer hall along with a neighboring home in the northern Shati refugee camp, west of the city, leaving several residents injured. Israeli aircraft also renewed their bombardment around the Sheikh Radwan market area in the northwest of the city, flattening another prayer hall as well as a major desalination plant that supplied water to thousands of residents and displaced families in the area.
Further south, in the Bureij refugee camp, Israeli warplanes targeted a home belonging to the Al-Awar family in Block 9, east of the camp, wounding several residents and displaced people sheltering nearby.
Following the escalation, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said that the Israeli military’s bombing and destruction of a water desalination station in Gaza City represents a continuation of what he described as a genocidal campaign against the population of the Strip, and a deliberate effort to strip residents of their basic means of survival.
Qassem said the intensifying bombardment, combined with strikes on overcrowded displacement sites and the destruction of makeshift shelters, underscores what he called Israel’s continued commitment to a forced displacement agenda as part of its broader campaign in Gaza.
The Hamas spokesman further stressed that this latest field escalation and wide-scale offensive amounts to a blatant disregard for the ceasefire agreement, which was signed under the sponsorship of U.S. President Donald Trump alongside the leaders of Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar. The renewed strikes add to a pattern of repeated breaches reported since the truce’s initial phase came into force, with civilians and humanitarian infrastructure — including water facilities and places of worship — increasingly caught in the crossfire.
