Sara Warsh Agha and her brothers, Ayman, Nafeth, and Ibrahim, gathered for iftar Sunday evening, their plates untouched, their mother absent.
Basma Banat, 28, had been shot in the lower back by Israeli military fire while leaving home for her job in an educational center, dying hours later at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Her death is the latest in a relentless pattern of violence along northern Gaza’s “Yellow Line,” a temporary boundary established under a cease-fire agreement that came into effect Oct. 10.
The cease-fire was intended to halt Israel’s two-year offensive, which has killed more than 72,000 people, wounded over 171,000, and destroyed roughly 90% of civilian infrastructure.
Yet for many Palestinians, the truce has become a fragile illusion.
