The UN’s well being company in the meantime stated that solely 5 vehicles carrying medical provides have been allowed into Gaza final week.
“Greater than 34 of our vehicles are ready on the Al Arish crossing and 850 pallets of medical provides are awaiting assortment. An additional 40 vehicles are ready at Ismailiya in Egypt,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated Friday on social media platform X.
Hamas’s Oct 7 assault on southern Israel that sparked the warfare resulted within the deaths of 1,195 individuals, largely civilians, in keeping with an AFP tally based mostly on Israeli figures.
The militants additionally seized hostages, 116 of whom stay in Gaza, together with 42 the navy says are useless.
Israel responded with a navy offensive that has killed no less than 38,345 individuals in Gaza, additionally largely civilians, in keeping with figures from Gaza’s well being ministry.
“DANGEROUS COMBAT ZONE”
The Israeli military dropped leaflets on Wednesday warning “everybody in Gaza Metropolis” that it might “stay a harmful fight zone”.
The leaflets urged residents to flee and set out designated escape routes from the realm the place the UN humanitarian workplace stated as much as 350,000 individuals had been sheltering.
The UN stated the newest evacuations “will solely gas mass struggling for Palestinian households, lots of whom have been displaced many instances”, and who face “vital ranges of want”.
Hamas official Hossam Badran advised AFP that Israel was “hoping that the resistance will relinquish its reputable calls for” in truce negotiations.
However “the continuation of massacres compels us to stick to our calls for”, he stated.
