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<article data-history-node-id="430041" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-launched-arson-spree-immediate-aftermath-ceasefire" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-launched-arson-spree-immediate-aftermath-ceasefire" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli soldiers 'launched arson spree' in immediate aftermath of ceasefire</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli soldiers torched civilian infrastructure&nbsp;in Gaza in the immediate aftermath of Hamas and Israel signing the ceasefire agreement on Thursday, Drop Site news is reporting.</p> <p>According to the report, Israeli troops set fire to food supplies, homes and a critical sewage plant in Gaza City on the night of 9 October and early morning 10 October, before Israel's cabinet had approved the agreement.</p> <p>According to Drop Site, the scale of the arson was more extensive&nbsp;than any previous spree conducted&nbsp;by Israeli soldiers it had documented&nbsp;since October 2023. The report identified a number of perpetrators as originating from several&nbsp;different brigades, including the Golani, Givati, Nahal Brigades, and the newly formed ultra-orthodox Hashmonaim Brigade.</p> <p>Soldiers&nbsp;posted footage and videos of buildings engulfed in flames.</p> <p>One soldier&nbsp;took a selfie in front of a pile of burning pallets containing food.</p> <p>&nbsp;“On Friday, just before departure. Burning food so that it won’t reach the Gazans, may their names be erased,” the caption reads.&nbsp;</p> <p>Before withdrawing, soldiers&nbsp;torched&nbsp;the Sheikh Ajlin Sewage Treatment Station, which is critical for Gaza City's sanitation network. In social media posts, soldiers posed in front of the burning plant; one caption read "[One] last memory".</p> <p>Monther Shoblaq, Director General of the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU) in Gaza said the attack could push the city's wastewater system "to point zero".</p> <p>He warned that the destruction of the plant could delay reconstruction efforts by years.</p> <p>“I mean, they signed a ceasefire,” Shoblaq said. “Why set it on fire?”</p> </div> </div> </article>

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