A Palestinian man was shot and wounded on Monday at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces stationed east of Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza Strip.

PIC reporter said that the soldiers opened their machinegun fire at a group of Palestinian citizens near the border fence separating the Strip from the 1948 occupied lands.

The IOF troops have violated the calm agreement on 20 occasions in less than a month. They killed a Palestinian teen a week ago in the same area.

Israeli Siege Still Biting Gaza Despite Truce

Head of the anti-siege popular committee in Gaza Strip MP Jamal Al-Khudari has asserted on Sunday that the Israeli occupation government was still tightening the economic siege on Gaza Strip in spite of the Palestinian adherence to the truce.

Khudari's remarks came in separate letters he sent to UN secretary-general Ban-Ki-Moon, Luiza Morantini, the deputy-head of the EU parliament, and the Amnesty International, where he accused the Israeli occupation government of reneging on its obligations to the Palestinians as stipulated in the recently agreed-upon calm in Gaza.

"We speak to you as influential and responsible bodies to explain the negative repercussions inflicted on the Gaza Strip as a result of the persisting Israeli blockade", said Khudari in his letters.

He also highlighted that the Israeli occupation government was deceiving the international community by allowing limited quantities of cement, steel, and fuel into the Gaza Strip that don’t meet even the minimum needs of the population there.

The anti-siege czar also stressed that the calm agreement calls on Israel to open all crossing points with Gaza Strip and allowing sufficient quantities of food, medicine, fuel, and construction materials into Gaza Strip.

Moreover, Khudari accused the IOA of fabricating reasons and pretexts to keep the crossings closed; pointing out that more than a thousand containers belonging to Palestinian business men were still detained by the occupation for a long time.

As far as electricity sector is concerned, Khudari underscored that the amount of fuel the Israeli occupation government allows into the Strip wasn’t sufficient to run the Gaza power plant, which causes blackouts throughout the Strip for 8 hours daily, prompting sever shortage in potable water.

Furthermore, Khudari confirmed that more then 205 Palestinian citizens in Gaza Strip, the bulk of them children, women, and elderly people, had perished due to lack of medicine in Gaza Strip.

"All these [facts] give a true picture of the volume of suffering of the Palestinian people under the Israeli occupation", Khudari emphasized, underlining that Israel has no justification for those inhumane measures in the shadow of the Palestinian adherence to the calm.

Finally, Khudari urged those organizations to immediately intervene and to pressure the Israeli occupation government to fulfill its obligations towards the Palestinian people as stipulated in the truce agreement in order to put an end to the Gazans' ordeal.