GAZA STRIP: The southern Gaza Strip got here beneath intense Israeli bombardment in a single day, regardless of worldwide strain for an instantaneous ceasefire within the Palestinian territory the place famine is looming.
Besieged Gaza is in determined want of help and the US mentioned it will proceed airdrops, regardless of pleas from Hamas to cease the observe after the group mentioned 18 folks had died making an attempt to achieve meals packages.
A fireball lit up the evening sky within the southern metropolis of Rafah, the final remaining city centre in Gaza to not have been attacked by Israeli floor forces. About 1.5 million individuals are crammed within the space, many having fled south in the direction of the border with Egypt.
The sound of explosions was additionally heard and smoke was seen rising in Gaza Metropolis within the north, the place Israeli troops have been attacking the town’s largest hospital for greater than every week.
The well being ministry in Hamas-run Gaza mentioned early Wednesday that 66 folks had been killed in a single day, together with three killed in Israeli air strikes in and round Rafah.
The preventing went on unabated two days after the UN Safety Council handed its first decision calling for an “instant ceasefire” and urging the discharge of the roughly 130 hostages Israel says stay in Gaza, together with 34 captives who’re presumed useless.
Israeli forces have additionally surrounded two hospitals in Khan Younis, the place the well being ministry mentioned 12 folks, together with some kids, had been killed in an Israeli strike on a camp for the displaced.
The Palestinian Pink Crescent has warned that hundreds had been trapped within the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis and “their lives are in peril”.
“MAN-MADE FAMINE”
Underscoring the desperation of civilians trapped by the preventing, Hamas has requested donor nations to cease their airdrops after 12 folks drowned making an attempt to get better parachuted meals help from the ocean off Gaza’s Mediterranean coast.
Hamas and the Swiss-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor additionally mentioned one other six folks had been killed in stampedes making an attempt to get help.
“Persons are dying simply to get a can of tuna,” Gaza resident Mohamad al-Sabaawi advised AFP, holding a can in his hand after a scramble over an help package deal.
