Nahariya, Israel (AP) – Israel announced on Saturday that it was preparing to move the Palestinians of the combat zones south of Gaza while the plans are advancing for a military offensive in some of the most populous areas of 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.
Meanwhile, anxious families of Israeli hostages called for a “national stop day” in Israel on Sunday to express an increasing frustration More than 22 months of war.
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 pressed the government for an agreement to arrest war – an appeal that some Former heads of the Israeli and intelligence army have also been in recent weeks.
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, officials and witnesses of Nasser hospital 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?” The neighbor Fathi Shubeir asked, sweating like temperatures In the broken territory, climbed above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius). “These are civilians in an area safely designated.”
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 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel provided for Expand the upcoming 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, an official of the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said they received the bodies of six people who were killed in the Zikim region north of Gaza, as well as four people killed in bombing.
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 as diseases spread, while some Israeli leaders continue to speak openly Mass relocation of Gaza people.
A 20 -year -old Palestinian described as being in a “severe physical deterioration” Died 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 confectioned and 994 routes 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. The Israel’s reprisal offensive killed 61,897 people in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health, which does not specify how much combatants or civilians were, but says that around half were women and children.
The ministry is part of the government managed by Hamas and with health professionals. The UN and independent experts consider it the most reliable source on the victims. Israel disputes its figures but has not provided its own.
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The writer Associated Press Bassem MROUE in Beirut contributed.
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