ISRAELI forces killed at least nine Palestinians in Gaza today despite the declared ceasefire and the release of 20 living prisoners by Hamas and its allies and about 1,900 prisoners held by Israel on Monday.

The death toll included six in Gaza City.

United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese slammed Israel’s continued attacks.

“Again: ceasefire according to Israel [equals] ‘you cease, I fire.’ Calling it ‘peace’ is both an insult and a distraction,” Ms Albanese wrote on X.

She called for “justice, sanctions, divestment [and] boycott until occupation, apartheid and genocide are over and every crime is accounted for.”

Israel claimed that it killed the Palestinians as they approached soldiers in central Gaza.

The Israelis have also continued to harass Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed into the compound of the al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy police protection today for the second time in a week, according to Jerusalem’s Islamic Endowments Directorate.

Jordan, which has custodianship of Muslim and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem and guarantees the religious rights of those communities, slammed the incursion.

Jordan’s Foreign Ministry said the incursions by Mr Ben-Gvir and settlers were “a flagrant violation of the existing legal and historical status of al-Aqsa Mosque.

“Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied city of Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy sites,” it said.

Meanwhile, a campaign group said at least 55 health workers were among those released by Israel on Monday.

Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW) said that at least 44 “were abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces from the hospitals where they were working.”

But the campaigners said more than 115 Palestinian healthcare workers from Gaza are still being held by Israel.

HWW director Muath Alser slammed Israel’s “systematic abduction of healthcare workers as a war crime.”

On Monday Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, told a summit of 20 world leaders at the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh that US President Donald Trump’s proposal for Middle East peace represents the “last chance” for peace in the region and reiterated his call for a two-state solution, saying Palestinians have the right to an independent state.

President Trump’s plan holds out the possibility of a Palestinian state, but only after a lengthy transition period in Gaza and a reform process by the internationally recognised Palestinian Authority.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes Palestinian independence. President Trump made no mention of a two-state solution at the summit.