Israel announced on Saturday that he was preparing to move the Palestinians of the combat zones to South Gaza While plans are advancing for a military offensive in some of the most populous areas in the territory.
The Israeli military organization in charge of humanitarian aid in Gaza, Cogat, said that the supply of tents and other shelter equipment on the territory would resume Sunday before the mass movement of the Palestinians in the south. The soldiers said he was not commenting on the start of this movement.
The latest development of the current war comes as multiple leaders of countries, notably France, Great Britain, Canada and Australia, announced that they will recognize a Palestinian state. They also criticized the plans announced that the plans of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the sweep a new military offensive in Gaza.
Meanwhile, anxious families of Israeli hostages called for a “national stoppage” in Israel on Sunday to express growing frustration over 22 months of war.
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The hostage families fear that the upcoming offensive puts the 50 remaining hostages in Gaza in danger, only 20 of them still thought alive. They and other Israelis have been horrified by the recent exit from Videos showing emaciated hostages Speak under stress and plead for help and food.
Families and supporters have has pressed the government for an agreement To arrest war – an appeal that some former Israeli army and intelligence leaders have also made in recent weeks. Earlier this month, American envoy Steve Witkoff met families of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza in Tel Aviv while fears about the survival of captives increased.
A group representing families urged the Israelis in the streets on Sunday. “Throughout the country, hundreds of initiatives led by citizens in suspense daily life and will join the fairest and most moral struggle: the struggle to bring the 50 hostages home,” he said in a statement.
“I want to believe that there is hope, and it will not come from above, it will only come from us,” said Dana Silberman Sitton, Sister of Shiri Bibas and Aunt by Kfir and Ariel Bibas, who were killed in captivity. She spoke during a weekly rally in Tel Aviv.
Air strike kills a little girl and her parents
An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed a little girl and her parents on Saturday, Nasser Hospital Officials and witnesses said. Motasem al-Batta, his wife and the daughter were killed in their tent in the crowded region of Muwasi.
“Two and a half months, what did she do?” Asked the neighbor Fathi Shubeir, sweating while temperatures in the broken territory climbed above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius). “These are civilians in a safe design zone.”
The army of Israel said that she could not comment on the strike without further details. He said he dismantled Hamas’ military capacities and takes precautions so as not to harm civilians.
Muwasi is one of the highly populated areas of Gaza where Netanyahu said that Israel was planning to expand the future military offensive. The mobilization of the forces should take weeks, and Israel could use the threat to put pressure on Hamas to release more hostages taken in its October 7, 2023, which sparked the war.
Elsewhere, a manager Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said that he had received the bodies of six people killed in the Zikim region north of Gaza, as well as four people killed in bombing.
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11 Other deaths related to malnutrition
11 Other deaths related to malnutrition have occurred in Gaza in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health of the territory announced on Saturday, with a child among them. This brings deaths related to malnutrition during the war at 251.
The United Nations warns that Famine levels and malnutrition In Gaza, have been at their highest level since the start of the war. Palestinians drink contaminated water as diseases spread, while some Israeli leaders continue to speak openly about mass relocation of Gaza.
A 20 -year -old Palestinian woman described as being in a “serious physical deterioration” died on Friday after being transferred from Gaza to Italy for treatment, the hospital announced on Saturday.
The UN and the partners say that obtaining food and other aid in the territory of more than 2 million people, then in distribution points, remains very difficult with Israeli restrictions and the pressure of hungry Palestinians.
The United Nations Human Rights Office claims that at least 1,760 people were killed when they asked for help between May 27 and Wednesday. He indicates that 766 were killed along the confectioneds and 994 near “non-united militarized sites”, a reference to the Gaza humanitarian foundation supported by the United States and supported by the United States, which since May has been the main distributor of Gaza aid.
The attack by Hamas in 2023 killed around 1,200 people in Israel. Israel’s reprisal offensive killed 61,897 people in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas, which does not specify how many fighters or civilians, but says that around half were women and children. The UN and independent experts consider it the most reliable source on the victims. Israel disputes its figures but has not provided its own.