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ReutersThe best American diplomat Marco Rubio said the United States was “troubled” by the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
His comments came at least 114 Palestinians were killed Thursday in Israeli air strikes, health officials announced.
Questioned by the BBC if the Trump administration has remained entirely behind the nature of the military action of Israel given the extent of the recent Israeli attacks and its hospitals, he again called Hamas to go and release hostages and said that there could be peace as long as the group exists.
“That said, we are not safe or in any way insensitive to the suffering of the inhabitants of Gaza, and I know that there are opportunities here to provide them with help,” he said.
Gaza has been under a complete Israeli blockade of all foods and other humanitarian supplies for 10 weeks. Israeli forces have intensified their bombing of what they say to be Hamas fighters and infrastructure before a planned expansion of their offensive on the ground in Gaza.
Rubio’s comments – Facts after a meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Turkey – seemed to be a reference to a controversial Israeli -American proposal to use private suppliers to set up aid collection points in Gaza. This plan was rejected by the UN as contrary to ethics and impracticable.
They come as Donald Trump visits the region and indirect negotiations on a new ceasefire agreement and the release of hostages between Hamas and Israel continue.
Hamas has accused the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “mediation efforts (ING) by a deliberate military escalation”.
A spokesperson for the Israeli government said ISRAEL wanted negotiations on the versions of hostages to succeed, but that they would take place while Hamas was under “military pressure”.
The United States is the main provider of Israel weapons and the language used by Rubio is unusual. Previously, he answered questions about the Palestinian civilian victims by calling Hamas to surrender. He also comes in the midst of recent reports from a gap between Trump and Netanyahu.
In the south of Gaza on Thursday, the streets of Khan Younis were filled with funeral processions and mourning families on Thursday morning, following what residents said they were the deadliest set of city strikes since Israel resumed its offensive almost two months ago.
Some 56 people, including women and children, were killed when houses and tents sheltering inappropriate families were bombed overnight in the city, the local Nasser hospital said.
The Israeli army said it had struck the Palestinian Islamic jihad fighters in southern Gaza.
A man said to the BBC’s daily East Arab Middle East program that the Nasser Hospital’s morgue was “filled beyond capacity”, and that several bodies were to be placed in the corridor before being able to be buried.
Doctors have been forced to treat the wounded, including those who have burns, amputations and internal bleeding, on civilians, benches and on the ground due to a lack of beds, he said.
“Among the people killed today, 36 children … entire families have been suffered from the civil register,” he added. “Tragically, this level of destruction is part of daily life.”
A video shared by a local activist showed doctors poses dozens of bodies on the ground in a local cemetery. An imam stood near the leading prayers for hundreds of people in mourning gathered behind him in ordered rows.
Safaa al-Bayouk, a 42-year-old mother, said her sons Muath, six weeks old, and Moataz, who was a year and four months old, were killed in one of the strikes.
“I gave them dinner and they fell asleep. It was a normal day … (then) the world turned around,” she told the news agency in Reuters.
Reem Al-Zanaty, 13, said that his uncle’s family, including her 12-year-old cousin, Menna, had been killed when their two houses were bombed.
“We did not feel anything or heard until we woke up with rubble on us,” she said. “Civil defense did not come. I will honestly tell you that we withdrew (outside). My father helped us.”
The doctors said that local journalist Hassan Samour, who worked for Al-Aqsa radio managed by Hamas, was killed with 11 family members when their home in the Bani Suheila district is struck.
ReutersIn the north of Gaza, the Civil Defense Agency said that its first stakeholders had recovered the bodies of four following Israeli strikes in the northern city of Beit Lahia and two others in the central city of Deir al-Balah.
Later, spokesperson Mahmoud Basal reported that an Israeli strike in a house in the city of Jabalia had killed the five members of the Shihab family.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that 15 people had been killed, including 11 children, when the Al-Tawbah health clinic and the Al-Fakhouri region ‘prayer room, the Jabalia refugee camp, were bombed.
A graphic video published online allegedly from the scene showed two bodies covered with debris in a street next to a seriously damaged building.
“An indescribable crime, in all the meanings of the word. They were safe in a medical clinic, civilians, children, women, men, something that a person cannot understand, so that they disclose a military missile in a medical clinic, on people and passers -by,” told Reuters Yehya Abu Jalhoum.
Amir Selha, a 43 -year -old resident from Northern Gaza, told AFP news agency: “Tan shells are hit 24 hours a day, and the area is filled with people and tents.”
He also said that Israeli military drones had dropped leaflets on its neighborhood warning residents to south.
The army said it had reached 130 “terrorist targets” throughout Gaza in the last two days, including combatant cells, rocket launchers and infrastructure sites.
Wednesday, Israeli strikes killed at least 80 people across the territory, including 59 in the city of Jabalia and the refugee camp, according to hospitals and civil defense.
The army said that it had struck the Palestinian Islamic jihad fighters in the North on Tuesday evening. He warned Jabalia residents and neighboring regions to evacuate Tuesday after the launch of Israel.
The Israeli evacuation orders issued on Wednesday afternoon also caused panic among residents of a crowded area of Gaza City, to the north.
The Israeli army said that a hospital, a university and several schools housing displaced people in the Rimal district had become “terrorist bastions” and that it would soon attack them with “intense force”.
AFPIn addition, an organization supported by the United States said that it would start working in Gaza within two weeks as part of a new aid distribution plan in the United States-Israeli.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said that he had asked Israel to let the UN and others take over the deliveries until it is put in place, and also to allow it to set up aid distribution sites in the North as well as in the South.
The envoy of Israel, Danny Danon, said that he “did not know these requests”, but he confirmed that the “big operation” would begin very soon.
The UN spokesman, Farhan Haq, has in the process of reiterated that he would not participate in terms of plan, claiming that he “does not agree with the basic principles, including those of impartiality, neutrality (and) of independence”.
Israel has not granted any assistance or other supplies to Gaza for 10 weeks, and an assessment of the classification of the Integrated Food Security phase (IPC) warned that half a million people are faced with famine.
Israel imposed the blockade on March 2 and resumed its offensive against Hamas two weeks later, ending a two-month ceasefire. He said he wanted to put pressure on Hamas to release his 58 remaining hostages, of which up to 23 which would be alive.
The UN said that Israel was forced under international law to ensure food and medical supplies of the Gaza population. Israel said that he was in accordance with international law and that there is no shortage of food.
Israel launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group’s cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, during which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
At least 53,010 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 2,876 since the Israeli offensive resumed, according to the Hamas Ministry of Hamas in the territory.
