He again called on it today to surrender, as his army bombardment in its largest urban center, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are looking for refuge.
Foreign Minister Gideon Saar told reporters in Jerusalem that the war could end immediately if Hamas released the remaining hostages and being held in Gaza, delivering her weapons.
“We will be more than happy to achieve this goal by political means,” he said.
Reacting, High -ranking Hamas official Bassem Naim told Reuters that the Islamist organization would not hand over its weapons, but would release all hostages if Israel agreed to end the war and withdraw its forces here.
Israel activated last month, an offensive operation against the city of Gaza, the most important urban center in the Gaza Strip, while its military forces are now a few kilometers from the city center.
During the night, the bombings killed 14 people all over the city, according to local health officials, including a blow to a school in the southern area of Gaza, where they had found refuge for displaced Palestinians.
Responding to Reuters’ questions about the blow to school, Israel’s army replied that he had hit a Hamas armed and that the civilians were warned before the blow was carried out.
Israeli military forces “will continue to act against terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip in order to remove any threat against Israeli civilians,” a spokesman for the Israeli army said.
New Israeli strike in high -rise apartment building in Gaza
The Israeli Armed Forces destroyed a multi -storey apartment building in the city of Gaza on Saturday, the second in the same days, and ordered its inhabitants to move away south, in view of a wide -ranging land business.
Nearly two years since the outbreak of this war, triggered by the unprecedented raid of the Palestinian Islamist Movement in the southern part of Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, the Israeli army has been stepping up its operations in the largest city in recent weeks.
Stressing that it controls 40% of the city, in the northern part of the small seaside area under siege, he says he will understand it to “defeat” Hamas and release the hostages that had been abducted when Hamas fighters raided 702 days ago.
Civil protection in the Gaza Strip spoke of at least 56 dead on Saturday in bombings or by an Israeli army fire, including four in the Sheikh Raduan district, in the city of Gaza, and 19 others near a North Distribution Center. Asked about AFP, the Israeli army said he was unable to comment on this information for the time being.
In a statement, the Israeli army called on the inhabitants of the city of Gaza yesterday morning to abolish, “without delay”, to the “humanitarian zone” al -Mauasi, in the southern part of Thylakos, to “unite with thousands of people already there”.
‘Save our soldiers’
At the same time, Israeli aircraft were throwing leaflets in the western districts of the city of Gaza, ordering residents to leave and announcing a property bombing.
Then, a high -rise apartment building was leveled on the day after the demolition of a similar building.
Yesterday, he said he would target “terrorist infrastructure” in the city, especially apartment buildings. He accused Hamas – who spoke of “shameless lies” – of using apartment buildings.
“Let’s go where?” Nafiz, 44 years old, questioned, living with his family in a scene in the Rimal district of Gaza. “We will wait, and when we see Israeli tanks approaching, we will leave.”
Ibrahim al -Jumla, 39, explained that he left with his family from the district where he was staying towards the other because of the bombings, also said he did not know where to go, or how. “We’re on foot. Even we decided to leave, we have no money. “
According to the UN, almost all the two million Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip has been forced to leave his home at least once because of the war.
The international organization, estimating that the population of the city of Gaza is a million people, warns against “disaster”. Amnesty International speaks of “irrevocable” consequences for citizens.
In Israel, hostage families express the fear that the business will endanger the lives of their own.
Like almost all Saturdays, thousands of Israelis were demonstrating, holding hostages in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. “The war has to stop to liberate the hostages and save our soldiers,” one read on one of the placards.
According to the Israeli army, there are 47 hostages in the Gaza Strip, who considers them to be dead 27, out of 251.
US President Donald Trump, a devoted ally of Israel, spoke yesterday of “in -depth negotiation” with Hamas for hostages. The new leader of the Joint Administration of the US Armed Forces responsible for the Middle East region (Centcom, “Central Administration”), Brad Cooper, visited Israel yesterday.
“Neither space, nor water”
In his exhortation to the residents of the city of Gaza to leave, the Israeli army assured that the “humanitarian zone” al -Mauasi has the “necessary humanitarian infrastructure” and is refuted with food and medicines.
From the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip, where starvation is now in at least 20% of its territory according to the UN, the Israeli army has repeatedly bombarded zones that are “humanitarian”, stressing that it has targeted Hamas.
Disposed of in the Al Mauasi area, along with his family, Basam al -Astal, 52 years old, stressed that “there are no room for scenes, no humanitarian services, no water, no food aid, no sewage system”.
The raid of October 7, 2023, resulted in 1,219 people on the Israeli side, the majority of civilians, according to the counting of the French Agency based on official data.
In large -scale Israeli military retaliation military operations have since died at least 64,368 people in the Palestinian enclave, mostly civilians, according to the most recent numbers by the Hamas Government Ministry of Health, which are considered credible by the UN.
