CAIRO/TEL AVIV (Reuters)-Israeli air strikes killed at least 50 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, according to local doctors, as Israel continues their bombing on the track, despite the growing international pressure to interrupt military operations and allow unimpeded delivery of help.
The attacks occurred throughout the Gaza Strip, and the doctors said the places affected included two houses where women and children were among the 18 dead, and a school that contained homeless families.
The Israeli military, who on Monday warned people in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, to leave the coast as they prepared for an “unprecedented attack”, did not make immediate comments.
In the city of Gaza, images of Reuters showed men, women and children rummaging the rubble of the Daraj neighborhood school, where they were sheltered, and where carbonized clothes and a bear of red plush were among the scattered belongings.
At Al-Ahli Hospital nearby, men prayed on bodies wrapped in white shrouds before carrying them to their tombs.
“What is our fault? What is the fault of the children? What is the fault of the women we find on the stairs with their torn and burned hair?” Said Omar Ahel, who was sheltered at school. “For God, this is injustice.”
Continues after advertising
Outside a Khan Younis hospital, Youis Abu Sahloul said his brother, sister -in -law and four children were killed in an air strike that hit a nearby camp that housed displaced Palestinians without notice.
Israeli attacks have killed more than 500 people in the last eight days, with the intensification of the military campaign, according to doctors in Gaza.
British Prime Minister Keir Strmer told Parliament that he, along with the leaders of France and Canada, were “horrified” with Israel’s military climb, reiterating requests for ceasefire.
Continues after advertising
The leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Canada warned on Monday that they could take “concrete measures” against Israel if the country does not interrupt military operations in Gaza and suspend restrictions on help.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country was involved in a “war of civilization against barbarism” and promised that “he would continue to defend himself by fair means until total victory.”
“Everything is empty”
Continues after advertising
The Israeli land and air war devastated the coastal territory, shifting almost all of its 2.3 million inhabitants and killing more than 53,000, according to Gaza’s health authorities.
The campaign began after Hamas militants attacked Israeli communities near the Gaza border in October 2023, killing about 1,200 people and hostage, according to Israeli records.
The war has damaged Israel’s relations with much of the international community and relations with its closest ally, the United States, now seem to be hesitating.
Continues after advertising
After Israel imposed a food blockade and other supplies from March 2, Gaza has also faced a critical hunger risk, a UN -supported hunger monitor said.
On Monday, Israel allowed the entry of nine trucks in Gaza and on Tuesday, the United Nations said they had received Israel’s permission to enter about 100 aid trucks.
The UN states that Gaza needs at least 500 aid trucks and commercial products every day. During the war, trucks with help have been waiting for weeks and months at the Gaza border to enter.
Continues after advertising
Louise Wateidge, spokesman for UNRWA Palestinian Refugee Agency, said on Tuesday that there was little food.
“Everything is empty. Deposits, distribution centers have been empty for weeks,” she said, talking about a deposit in Jordan that, she said, had food for 200,000 people who could be taken to Gaza in just a few hours.
(Report by Nidal Al-Monghrabi in Cairo, Alexander Cornwell in Tel Aviv and James Mackenzie in Jerusalem; Emma Farge’s additional report in Geneva, John Irish in Paris and Dawoud Abu Alkas in Gaza)
