Israeli airstrikes kill 100 in Gaza Strip, with ‘complete families’ worn out amid ceasefire talks | EUROtoday

Israeli airstrikes have killed a minimum of 100 Palestinians throughout the Gaza Strip in a single day, in keeping with native well being authorities.

One of Israel’s in a single day strikes hit a tent encampment housing displaced households in Khan Younis within the southern Gaza Strip, killing girls and youngsters, wounding dozens and setting a number of tents ablaze.

Medical officers mentioned a household in northern Gaza misplaced a minimum of 20 of its members, and three journalists and their households are additionally among the many useless.

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Hamas described the strike as a “new brutal crime” and blamed the US administration for the escalation. Israel has expanded its strikes on the enclave since Thursday, killing a whole bunch of individuals in preparation for a brand new floor offensive to realize ‘operational management’ in elements of Gaza. There was no speedy remark from the Israeli navy on the newest assaults.

“We have at least 100 martyrs since overnight,” Gaza health ministry spokesperson Khalil Al-Deqran said. “Complete families were wiped off the civil registration record by Israeli bombardment.”

Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital said among the dead, 15 were children and 12 were women.

Health officials said that fighting around the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and an Israeli military “siege” prompted it to shut down.

The hospital was the main medical facility in the territory’s war-wrecked north, after northern Gaza’s previous main hospital, Kamal Adwan, was forced to stop serving Palestinians last year because of Israeli strikes, as was a second facility, Beit Hanoun Hospital. The Israeli military also had no immediate comment on operations at the hospital.

Zakaria Al-Sinwar, the brother of former Hamas chief Yehya Al-Sinwar whom Israel killed last October, and three of his children were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their tent in central Gaza Strip, medics said. Mr Sinwar was a history lecturer at a Gaza university.

Israel has blocked the entry of medical, food and fuel supplies into Gaza since the start of March in an attempt to pressure Hamas into freeing Israeli hostages.

It has also approved plans that could involve seizing the entire Gaza strip and controlling aid.

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Hamas, for its part, says it will only free the hostages in return for an Israeli ceasefire.

Egyptian and Qatari mediators, backed by the United States, began a new round of indirect ceasefire talks between the two sides on Saturday.

However, sources close to the negotiations said there had been no breakthrough.

A Palestinian official close to the talks, which are taking place in the Qatari capital of Doha, said: “Hamas is versatile in regards to the variety of hostages it will possibly free, however the issue has all the time been over Israel’s dedication to finish the conflict.”

Britain’s Sky News Arabica and the BBC both reported that the Palestinian militant group had proposed releasing about half its Israeli hostages in exchange for a two-month ceasefire and the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

A Hamas official said: “Israel’s place is unchanged, they need their prisoners launched, with no dedication to finish the conflict.”

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The Gaza healthcare system is barely operational because of repeated Israeli bombardment and raids on hospitals. The blockade on aid supplies has compounded their difficulties while adding to widespread hunger, for which Israel blames Hamas.

“Hospitals are overwhelmed with the rising variety of casualties, many are youngsters, a number of circumstances of amputations and the hospitals, which have been hit repeatedly by the occupation, are fighting shortages of medical provides,” Mr Deqran mentioned.

On Saturday, the Israeli navy mentioned in an announcement that it was conducting intensive strikes in areas of Gaza as a part of its plan to succeed in its conflict goals.

Israel’s declared aim in Gaza is the elimination of the navy and governmental capabilities of Hamas, which attacked Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, killing round 1,200 individuals and seizing about 250 hostages.

The Israeli navy marketing campaign has devastated the enclave, pushing almost all residents from their properties and killing greater than 53,000 individuals, in keeping with Gaza well being authorities.