Deir al -Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) – Wednesday, Israeli air strikes beat the north and south of Gaza, killing at least 70 people, including nearly two dozen children, according to hospitals and health officials, one day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “No question” he would stop Israel’s offensive in Palestinian territory before Hamas was defeated.
At least 50 people, including 22 children, were killed in strikes around Jabaliya in northern Gaza, according to hospitals and the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The strikes came after Hamas published an Israeli-American hostage on MondayA gesture that some people thought they could lay the foundations for a ceasefire, and as American president Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia during a trip of several days in the Gulf countries.
The army of Israel refused to comment on the strikes. He warned Jabaliya residents to evacuate Tuesday evening, citing militant infrastructure in the region, including rocket launchers.
In Jabaliya, the rescuers broke concrete slabs collapsed using hand tools, lit by the light from mobile phones, to eliminate the body of children.
Israel threatens to degenerate operations in Gaza
In Comments published Tuesday by the Netanyahu office, The Prime Minister said that Israeli forces were a few days before a promised climbing and would enter Gaza “with great strength to finish the mission … This means destroying Hamas”.
There had been a generalized hope that Visit of Trump in the Middle East could inaugurate a cease-fire agreement or a renewal of humanitarian aid in Gaza. An Israeli blockade in the territory is now in its third month.
The war began when activists led by Hamas killed 1,200 people in an intrusion in 2023 in southern Israel. Israel’s reprisal offensive killed more than 52,928 Palestinians, including many women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not say how many fighters were. Nearly 3,000 have been killed since Israel broke a ceasefire on March 18 said the ministry.
Israel’s offensive has vast Standers of the Urban Landscape of Gaza and moved 90% of the population, often several times.
The Israeli media reported that a target in a strike in a hospital in Khan Younis on Tuesday was Mohammed Sinwar, younger brother leader in Hamas Yahya Sinwar, who was Killed by Israeli forces last October. The soldiers would not comment beyond saying that he had targeted a “command and control center” of Hamas which, according to him, was located under the European hospital.
Mohammed Sinwar is said to be Hamas’ first military leader in Gaza. Israel has tried to assassinate him several times in recent decades.
A senior health official in Gaza said on Wednesday that ambulances were no longer able to reach the hospital due to damage caused by the strike, who also forced the installation to suspend surgical operations.
Dr. Marwan al-Hams, director general of field hospitals at the Gaza Ministry of Health, said the strike had seriously damaged the hospital and sewer systems of the hospital, as well as its court. He added that the Israeli army struck a bulldozer brought by the hospital authorities to repair the area to allow ambulances to reach the building.
“Until these damages are fixed, we will have to stop most of the hospital departments,” he said, adding that he had no information on Israel’s alleged goal of the strike.
France condemns the blocking of Israeli aid
International food security experts have warned Earlier this week that Gaza will probably fall in famine if Israel does not raise its blockade and stop its military campaign.
Almost half a million Palestinians are Faced with a possible famine While 1 million others can barely obtain enough food, according to the results of the integrated classification of the food security phase, a leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises.
French President Emmanuel Macron firmly denounced Netanyahu’s decision to block aid as a “shame” that caused a major humanitarian crisis.
“I say it with force, what the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is doing today is unacceptable,” Macron said on national TF1 television on Tuesday evening. “There are no drugs. We cannot get injured. Doctors cannot enter.”
Macron, who visited the Palestinians injured in Egypt last month, called for the reopening of the Gaza border to humanitarian convoys. “Then, yes, we have to fight to move Hamas, release hostages and build a political solution,” he said.
Netanyahu replied that Macron “echoed the false propaganda” of an extremist militant organization.
The Gaza population of around 2.3 million people relies almost entirely on external aid to survive. The 19 -month -old military campaign in Israel has suffered most of the ability to produce food in the territory. The markets are empty of most items and the prices of what remains soaring.
Blockages oblige charity kitchens to close
The United Nations claim that the number of meals that charities provide in Gaza plunged around 260,000 under the blockade of Israel, against more than a million per day at the end of April.
Charitable kitchens are the last lifeline for most of the Gaza population, but they stop quickly because supplies are exhausted. In the first two weeks of May, at least 112 kitchens – more than 60% of the total – closed, the United Nations humanitarian office announced on Wednesday. Only 68 kitchens are still working.
The World Health Organization said that it had only enough actions to treat 500 children with acute malnutrition, a fraction of the need. Thousands of children have been diagnosed with malnutrition in recent weeks.
Israel says that the blockade aims to put pressure on Hamas to release the hostages and disarm remaining. Israeli officials said that there was enough food in the territory after an increase in assistance in the recent ceasefire by two months.
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Lidman reported to Tel Aviv, Israel. The editors of the Associated Press Fatma Khaled and Lee Keath in Cairo and Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report.
