By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy
Deir al -Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli planes struck a residential block in the north of Gaza on Wednesday, killed by war, killing at least 23 people, said health officials, while the battles renewed in the devastated Palestinian enclave showed no sign of slowing down.
Al-Ahly Hospital said that at least 23 people had been killed in the strike, including eight women and eight children. The Ministry of Health of the territory confirmed the figures.
The strike struck a four -story building in the Shijaiyah district of Gaza City, and the rescue teams sought victims under the rubble, according to the emergency service of the Ministry of Health. The civil defense, a rescue group which operates under the government managed by Hamas, said that other neighboring buildings had been damaged in the strike.
The Israeli army said that she had struck a senior Hamas who, according to him, was behind attacks from Shijaiyah, but he did not name him or provided more details. Israel accuses the death of Palestinian civilians in the group, because it fits into dense urban areas.
While increasing pressure on Hamas to accept free hostages, Israel has issued radical evacuation orders for Gaza parties, including chiijaiyah. He imposed a blockage on food, fuel and humanitarian aid which left civilians confronted with acute shortages as supplies decrease. He is committed to seizing large parts of the Palestinian territory and establishing a new safety corridor through him.
The UN said that the Israeli army had denied humanitarian workers for permission of more than two-thirds of the 170 attempts to move humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip since the end of the ceasefire. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said efforts to reduce the Palestinian aid supplies were “seriously tense”.
The Israeli army did not immediately comment.
Earlier this week, Hamas pulled its strongest rockets since the cease-fire collapsed, launching 10 projectiles south of Israel.
Israel resumed his war against Hamas in Gaza last month after an eight-week cease-fire collapsed. The ceasefire brought a well-necessary stay of battles to the Palestinians of the war in Gaza and sent a humanitarian aid infusion to the territory. This also led to the release of 25 living Israeli hostages detained in Gaza and the return of the remains of eight others, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Mediators have since tried to bring the parties to a transitional agreement that would again arouse war, free hostages and would open the door to talks on the side of war, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he will not accept until Hamas is defeated. Hamas wants war to end before filming the 59 remaining hostages it has, 24 of which are supposed to be alive.
The war, which was launched by Hamas on October 7, 2023, the attacks on southern Israel, saw the deadliest fights between the Israelis and the Palestinians in their history. He sparked a humanitarian crisis in Gaza already impoverished and sent shock waves in the region and beyond.
Hamas has been appointed a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada and the European Union.
Netanyahu went to Washington this week to meet President Donald Trump. In their public statements, they offered sympathy for the fate of hostages but highlighted any emerging agreement to suspend the fights.
Trump said he wanted war to end. But his post-war vision for Gaza-resuming it and the move of its population-has amazed the allies of the Middle East, who say all exposed on the transfer of the Palestinian population, by force or voluntarily, is a non-barer. Israel adopted the idea.
Netanyahu, on the other hand, is under pressure from his far -right political allies to continue the war until Hamas is crushed, an objective that Israel has not yet reached 18 months in the conflict.
The war killed more than 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health, which does not make the difference between combatants and civilians in its count, but says that more than half of the dead are women and children.
Hamas killed 1,200 people during its attack on October 7, mainly civilians, and took 250 captive people, many of whom were released in cease-fire agreements.
Magdy reported to Cairo. The writers of the TIA Goldenberg associated press in Tel Aviv, Israel; And Farnoush Amiri to the United Nations contributed to this report.
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