Deir al -Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli strikes killed at least 52 people In the Gaza Strip On Monday, including 36 years in a school that has become a shelter that was struck while people were sleeping, putting their business on fire, according to local health officials. The soldiers said they had targeted militants operating from the school.
Israel renewed his offensive in March after ending a ceasefire with Hamas. He promised to take control of Gaza and continue to fight until Hamas is destroyed or disarmed, and until he returns the remaining 58 hostages, a third of them who would be alive, from October 7, 2023, which sparked the war.
Israel began to authorize a humanitarian aid net in Gaza last week after blocked all foods, drugs, fuel or other goods for the entrance for 2 and a half months. Help groups warned against famine And to say that the help that has arrived is far from sufficient to meet the assembly needs.
A new aid system supported by Israel and the United States, but rejected by United Nations agencies and aid groups, should start operations on Monday, despite the resignation of the American leading the effort, which said that he would not be able to operate independently.
Israel says he plans to seize Complete Gaza control And facilitate what he describes as the voluntary migration of its population of more than 2 million, a plan rejected by the Palestinians and A large part of the international community. Hamas warned the Palestinians on Monday not to cooperate with the new aid system, saying that it aims to promote these objectives.
The military campaign of Israel has destroyed vast areas of Gaza and has moved inside some 90% of its population. Many have fled several times.
Ultranationalists walk in East Jerusalem, turn into a United Nations compound
In a separate development, ultra -nationalist Israelis gathered in Jerusalem for an annual procession marking the conquest of Israel in 1967 in the eastern sector of the city. Some demonstrators sung the “death to the Arabs” And the Palestinian residents harassed.
A small group, including a deputy, burst into the East Jerusalem-East grounds of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, that Israel has prohibited. The complex has been mainly empty since January, when the staff was invited to stay away for security reasons. The UN says that he has not canceled the compound and that he is protected by international law.
There was no immediate comments from the Israeli police.
Rescuers recover the charred leftovers
The school strike in the Daraj district of Gaza City also injured dozens of people, said Fahmy Awad, head of the ministry’s emergency service. He said that a father and his five children were among the dead. The Shifa et al-Ahli hospitals of Gaza City have confirmed the global toll.
Awad said school had been struck three times while people were sleeping, setting fire to their property. Online circulating images have shown that rescuers had trouble extinguishing the fires and recovering the charred remains.
The army said it was targeting a command and militant control center inside the school that Hamas and Islamic jihad used to collect information for attacks. Israel blame civilian deaths in Hamas because it operates in residential areas.
A separate strike in a house in Jabalya in the north of Gaza killed 16 members of the same family, including five women and two children, according to Shifa hospital, which received the bodies.
Palestinian activists have drawn three projectiles from Gaza, two of which failed in the territory and a third party who was intercepted, according to the Israeli army.
Official involved in the assistance plan supported by Israel resigns
Israel plans to deploy a new aid distribution system managed by a group known as Gaza’s humanitarian foundation, made up of former humanitarian, government and military officials, which would set up distribution points kept by private security companies.
Israel accuses Hamas of siphoning help, without providing evidence. The Foundation said in a statement that it would start to provide help on Monday and reach a million Palestinians – about half of the Gaza population – by the end of the week.
The United Nations agencies and large aid groups have refused to cooperate with the system planned in the United States, saying that this would force even more trips, would not respond to meet local needs and violate the humanitarian principles that prohibit a war from controlling humanitarian aid. They also say that there is no evidence of systematic embezzlement of aid by activists.
Jake Wood, the American at the head of the foundation, resigned unexpectedly on Sunday, saying that it had become clear that the foundation would not be allowed to operate independently. It is not clear that finances the group.
Activists led by Hamas have killed some 1,200 people, mainly civilians and removed 251 people in the 2023 attack. More than half of the hostages were returned to cease-fire agreements or other agreements, eight have been rescued and Israeli forces have recovered the remains of tens of more.
The offensive has destroyed large Gaza areas, making entire neighborhoods uninhabitable. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to take shelter in schools and sordid tents for more than a year.
Israel’s reprisal offensive killed around 54,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. He says that more than half of the dead are women and children, but is not distinguished between civilians and combatants in his count.
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Magdy reported to Cairo. The writers of the Associated Press Tia Goldenberg in Tel Aviv, Israel and Julia Frankel in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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