Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza, including people sheltering in tents and others seeking scarce food. A famine is spreading in Gaza City amid a 22-month Israeli offensive and restrictions on food and medical supplies. Israel's defense minister warned Gaza City could be destroyed in a possible new military operation. Aid groups warn that the war and supply restrictions are causing starvation, while Israel rejects a data-based famine declaration. Ceasefire efforts are on hold as mediators await Israel's next steps. Hospitals reported heavy civilian tolls, including many women and children.
Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including people sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food, local hospitals said as a famine in Gaza's largest city sparks new pressure on Israel over its 22-month offensive. Israel's defense minister has warned that Gaza City could be destroyed in a new military operation perhaps just days away, even as famine spreads there.
Aid groups have long warned that the war, sparked by Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack, and months of Israeli restrictions on food and medical supplies entering Gaza are causing starvation. Israel has rejected the data-based famine declaration as an outright lie. Women and children struck and killed in tents Israeli strikes killed at least 17 people in southern Gaza, more than half of them women and children, according to morgue records and health officials at Nasser Hospital.
Awad, why did you leave me? a small boy asked his brother's plastic-wrapped body. Another grieving relative, Hekmat Foujo, pleaded for a truce. We want to rest, Foujo said through her tears. 'Have some mercy on us. In northern Gaza, Israeli gunfire killed at least five aid-seekers near the Zikim crossing with Israel, where U.N. and other truck convoys enter the territory, health officials at Sheikh Radwan field hospital told the AP.
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