Medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City reported, early Sunday, the martyrdom of a Palestinian and the injury of another citizen with varying wounds as a result of being directly shot by Israeli occupation forces. The sources stated that ambulance crews transported the victims from the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, located east of the city, where the martyr's body was placed in the morgue, while the injured person underwent urgent surgical interventions in the emergency department due to live bullet wounds.
Field data indicated that the targeting of civilians focused on side streets within the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, areas located outside the usual military concentration of occupation vehicles. This development points to an expansion of the field targeting circle to include the movements of citizens in alleys and residential areas that were previously classified as areas far from direct friction, which raises the level of danger to the lives of the remaining residents in those neighborhoods.
Local sources quoted eyewitnesses in the area as saying that the occupation forces stationed in nearby axes opened their machine gun fire intensively and suddenly towards everything moving in the vicinity of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood. Witnesses confirmed that the area had not witnessed any armed clashes or exceptional tensions before the incident, which reinforces the hypotheses indicating that the occupation is adopting a policy of field sniping to terrorize civilians and prevent them from moving between their neighborhoods.
This escalation comes at a time when the eastern neighborhoods of Gaza are experiencing a state of anticipation and extreme caution, especially with the recurrence of indiscriminate shooting operations targeting residential areas. This assault coincided with the occupation army issuing evacuation warnings for some buildings in the same area, which portends a new wave of systematic bombing and destruction of infrastructure and what remains of citizens' homes in Gaza City.
Occupation forces deliberately opened heavy and sudden fire towards any moving object in the area despite the relative calm.
