Palestinian officials said the War in Gaza killed more than 50,000 people after the end of the ceasefire in Israel last week In a wave of strikes that killed hundreds.
Israel, who threatened Gaza with “complete destruction and devastation“If Hamas has not given the remaining hostages,” continued to strike what it says is militant targets. It has also launched ground forays in northern Gaza.
Sunday after Sunday, Israeli strikes through the South Gaza band killed at least 26 Palestinians, including a political leader in Hamas and several women and children.
Residents said the tanks had progressed in an area in the southern city of Rafah while the army ordered him evacuated.
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Palestinian men, women and children could be seen walking along a dirt road and carry their personal effects in their arms, a recurring scene in a war that forced most of the Gaza population to flee the territory.
“It’s a trip under fire,” said Mustafa Gaber, a local journalist who left Tel-Sultan with his family. During a video call, he said hundreds of people fled while the tank and drone fire echo nearby. “There are wounded among us. The situation is very difficult,” he said.
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Israeli defense forces have said that Tel-Sultan’s operation targeted “terrorist infrastructure sites” and sought to “eliminate terrorists from the region, in order to strengthen control and extend the security zone in southern Gaza”.
“The FDI will continue to operate against terrorist organizations in Gaza to protect Israeli civilians,” he said in a statement.
Hamas said Salah Bardawil, a member of his political bureau and the Palestinian Parliament, was killed in a strike in Muwasi who also killed his wife.
Hospitals in the south of Gaza said they had received 24 other strike bodies overnight, including several women and children.
Later Sunday, the Gaza Ministry of Health said that an Israeli air strike hit a hospital in Khan Yunis, killing at least one person.
The ministry said that the strike caused a large fire in the hospital surgical building in the southern city of Khan Younis. The hospital says there are several injured.
The army of Israel confirmed the strike of the hospital, saying that it had struck a Hamas activist who was taking place there. Israel blamed civilian deaths in Hamas because it operates in densely populated areas.
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, an American doctor inside the hospital, told CBS News on the phone that the front of the building was on fire after an explosion. He said the hospital was stopped and was worried about the possibility of another attack.
Sources told CBS News that Ismail Barhoum, a political member of Hamas and spokesperson, was the target of the strike at the hospital.
The Gaza Ministry of Health led by Hamas said that a total of 50,021 Palestinians had been killed in the war and that more than 113,000 were injured. The last toll announced on Sunday includes 673 people killed since Israel’s surprise bombing on Tuesday as well as 233 recently identified bodies, the ministry said.
The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its files, but said that women and children are more than half of the dead. Israel says he killed around 20,000 fighters, without providing evidence.
Late Saturday, the Israeli cabinet approved a proposal to create a new management responsible for advancing the “voluntary departure” of the Palestinians in accordance with President Trump’s proposal to Depopule Gaza and reconstruct it for others.
The Palestinians say that they do not want to leave their country of origin and that the rights defense groups have declared that the plan could represent an expulsion in violation of international law.
The Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the new body would be “subject to Israeli and international law” and coordinate “the passage by land, sea and air to the destination countries”.
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The ceasefire that settled in January stopped 15 months of heavy fighting fiery by Hamas’ terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 people. The activists led by Hamas took 251 people hostage.
Most captives have been released in cease-fire agreements or other agreements, while Israeli forces have saved eight alive and recovered dozens of bodies.
The parties were to start negotiations in early February in the next truce phase, in which Hamas was to release the remaining 59 hostages – of which 35 are considered dead – in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal.
These talks have never started and Israel withdrew from the cease-fire agreement after Hamas refused Israeli proposals and supported by the United States to publish more hostages on a sustainable truce.