At least 34 people were killed through Gaza by Israeli strikes, according to health personnel, while Palestinians are faced with a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and prospects for a closer thumb.
The strikes started late Friday and continued on Saturday morning, among others, killing 12 people at the Palestine stadium in Gaza City, who was inappropriate people, and eight others lived in apartments, according to the staff of the Shifa hospital where the bodies were brought. Six others were killed in the south of Gaza when a strike hit their tent in Muwasi, according to the hospital.
Strikes are involved while US President Donald Trump says there may be a ceasefire agreement over the next week. Take questions to journalists from the oval office on Friday, the president said: “We are working on Gaza and try to take care of it.”
A situation official told the Associated Press that the Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer will arrive in Washington next week for interviews on the ceasefire in Gaza, Iran and other subjects. The manager spoke under the cover of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the media.
The talks have been in progress again since Israel shattered the last cease-fire in March, continuing its military campaign in Gaza and promoting the terrible humanitarian crisis of the strip. About fifty hostages remain in Gaza, less than half of them still believed alive. They were part of some 250 hostages taken when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, triggering the 21 -month war.
The war killed more than 56,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. He says that more than half of the dead were women and children.
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There is hope among the hostage families that Trump’s involvement in securing the recent ceasefire between Israel and Iran could exert more pressure for an agreement in Gaza. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is setting up a wave of public support for the Iran war and his achievements, and he could feel that he has more space to move towards the end of the war in Gaza, something that his partners of the far right governing oppose.
Hamas has repeatedly said that it was ready to release all hostages in exchange for an end of the war in Gaza. Netanyahu says that he will not finish war until Hamas is disarmed and exiled, which the group has rejected.
Meanwhile, the hungry Palestinians suffer a catastrophic situation in Gaza. After blocked all food for 2,1/2 months, Israel has only authorized a net of supplies in the territory since mid-May.
The United Nations efforts to distribute food have been plagued by armed gangs looting trucks and by crowds of desperate people discharge the supplies of convoys.
The Palestinians were also killed and injured on the way to obtain food on newly trained aid sites, led by the American and Israeli Humanitarian Foundation Gaza, according to Gaza health officials and witnesses.
Palestinian witnesses say that Israeli troops opened fire on crowds on the roads heading for the sites. The Israeli army said it was investigating incidents in which civilians had been injured when the sites approaches.
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