CAIRO (AP) – The bodies of 79 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals in recent 24 hours, the Ministry of Health of Gaza said on Saturday, a record that does not include the beaten northern hospitals which, according to him, is now inaccessible.
Nine of the 10 children of a doctor were among those killed in the renewed military offensive of Israel, colleagues and the Ministry of Health said.
Alaa Najjar, pediatrician at Nasser Hospital, was in service at the time and run at home to find his family’s house in fire, said Ahmad al-Farra, head of the pediatric department of the hospital, at the Associated Press.
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Najjar’s husband was seriously injured and their only surviving child, an 11 -year -old son was in critical condition after Friday strike in the southern city of Khan Younis, Farra said.
The dead children were 7 months to 12 years old. Khalil Al-Dokran, spokesperson for the Gaza Ministry of Health, told AP that two of the children had stayed under the rubble.
The Israeli army in a statement said that it had struck suspects operating from a structure next to its forces and described the Khan Younis area as a “dangerous war zone”. He said he had evacuated civilians from the region, and “the complaint concerning the damage to unrescited civilians is being examined”.
Earlier on Saturday, a statement said that the Air Force of Israel reached more than 100 targets in Gaza during the last day.
The Ministry of Health said that the new deaths had brought the war for 53,901 since October 7, 2023, the attack led by Hamas against Israel, which sparked 19 months of fighting. The ministry said that 3,747 people had been killed in Gaza since Israel returned to war on March 18 in order to press Hamas to accept different ceasefire conditions. Its number does not make the difference between civilians and fighters.
Israel’s pressure on Hamas has included a blockade of Gaza and more than 2 million people since early March. This week, the First -hand trucks have entered The territory and began to reach the Palestinians since the start of the blockade.
COGAT, the Israeli defense organization supervising aid to Gaza, said that 388 trucks had entered since Monday. About 600 trucks per day entered during the ceasefire.
Warnings from famine by food security experts and images of desperate Palestinians are jostling for constantly of food bowls, has led the Israeli allies to press the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allowing some help to come back.
The Netanyahu government has requested a new aid delivery and distribution system by a newly established group in the United States, but the United Nations and the partners have rejected it, saying that it allows Israel to use food as a weapon and violates humanitarian principles.
Israel could now modify his approach to leave support groups for non -food aid, according to a letter obtained by the AP. Israel accuses Hamas of siphoning help, but the UN and Help groups deny that there is an important diversion.
Gaza hospitals again report Israeli attacks and pressures.
The Ministry of Health said that 11 members of security personnel were trapped at the European hospital in the south of Gaza following shots and air strikes since at least on Tuesday. Dr. Saleh Hams, director of the Department of Nursing, said that patients had been evacuated after an Israeli strike on May 13. Hams said the security personnel had remained to protect looting, and that it was the only hospital in Gaza offering neurosurgery, heart care and cancer treatment.
Israel said that he would continue to strike Gaza until Hamas publishes the 58 hostages and remaining Israeli disarmaments. Less than half of the hostages would be alive since the October 7 attack, in which activists have killed some 1,200 people, mainly civilians and removed 251 others.
Hamas said that it would only make the hostages remaining in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from the territory. Netanyahu rejected these terms and promised to maintain control over Gaza and to facilitate what he calls voluntary emigration of a large part of its Palestinian population.
“The Israeli government and its leader have a clear choice: the agreement or war, save lives or abandonment,” said Liran Berman, brother of the hostages Gali and Ziv Berman, to a weekly rally in Tel Aviv as families and supporters again demanded an agreement that would bring everyone back to the house.
Aljoud reported to Beirut.