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by Celine Hagbard - 1 of International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group

After a declared ceasefire ended with massive Israeli airstrikes Friday, the Israeli bombs continued to drop on all parts of the Gaza Strip through the evening and night.

Six bodies arrived at the Kuwaiti hospital early Saturday morning – they were victims of the massive airstrike on a market on Friday morning that killed up to 60 people during a humanitarian ceasefire. They have been identified as:
Haitham Yasser Abdel Wahab, age 16
Mohamed Issa Ashaar
Hossam Yassin Abu Naqira, 20 years old
Mousa Yasin Abu Naqira, his brother
Ola Bassam Al-Nairab
Arwa Mohamed al-Nairab.

The bombing of the Abu Suleiman family home in Rafah early Saturday morning resulted in the deaths of at least 7 people and the wounding of 30. The people killed were identified as:
Fida Yousef Abu Suleiman, 23
Mariam Hasan Abu Jazzar, 60
Maha Raed Abu Suleiman
Mohammad Rami Abu Suileiman
Ahmad Rami Abu Suleiman
Lama Rami Abu Suleiman
Jana Rami Abu Suleiman

In Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, a bomb targeted a family home, killing one:
Mohammad Fouad Al-Dedda, 28.

One person died of wounds sustained earlier Friday:
Issa Saadi Ashaar, 40 years old from the city of Khan Younis.

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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces continued its assault on Gaza for a 26th day on Saturday, killing over 50 Palestinians as airstrikes and artillery shelling targeted houses and mosques across the Strip.

At least 35 of the Palestinians killed overnight were slain in Rafah, a day after an incident in the southern city led to the collapse of an agreed-upon 72-hour ceasefire.

Medical sources said Israeli raids on UN-funded public housing buildings in the Saudi neighborhood west of Rafah killed at least 23 people after midnight. About 15 dead bodies from the attack on the neighborhood were taken to the Emirati Hospital in the city and eight others were evacuated to the Kuwaiti Hospital.

Additionally, five people including three children were killed by a Israeli airstrike on the home of al-Nayrub family in the Sabra neighborhood of Rafah.

The death toll since the beginning of the Israeli offensive has surpassed 1,650, according to the ministry of health. Over 8,700 Palestinians ave been injured.

Israeli forces had also targeted Rafah on Friday after Palestinian militants carried out an operation in the city which left two soldiers dead and one missing.

Hamas' militant wing says the operation took place at 7:00 a.m., an hour before the ceasefire was to start.

"What happened east of Rafah Friday morning was that occupation forces took advantage of the alleged humanitarian ceasefire to penetrate our land for more than two kilometers," a statement from the al-Qassam Brigades said early Saturday.

"We estimate that our fighters who were in the area clashed with the Israeli troops around 7:00 a.m before the alleged ceasefire went into effect. Then, Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling targeted Palestinian civilians after 10:00 a.m breaching the ceasefire under the pretext of searching for a missing soldier."

"We lost contact with a group of fighters ... when Israeli occupation forces penetrated east of Rafah. We suspect that they were all killed by Israeli shelling, including the Israeli soldier who, supposedly, was abducted by the group."

The Israeli army said that "an attack ... executed against (Israeli) forces operating to decommission a tunnel" occurred at 9:30 a.m.

"Initial indication suggests that an (army) soldier has been abducted by terrorists during the incident," the army said in a statement.

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