Nighttime strikes in Khan Younes, in the south of the Gaza Strip, left more than 20 people dead, including children.
In a statement, the Israeli army said it had “eliminated several terrorists from the air and the ground and dismantled numerous terrorist infrastructures”.
In Nuseirat, in the center of the Gaza Strip, an Israeli strike in a school transformed into shelter for displaced people left at least 18 dead, mainly women and children, and dozens injured. The Israeli army, which regularly targets schools, claims to have targeted Hamas.
According to Civil Defense, Israeli bombings have caused 770 deaths in 19 days in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
This Friday, during a meeting with Antony Blinken in London, the Jordanian foreign minister called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to stop the “ethnic cleansing” in progress.
In Gaza, “the smell of death is everywhere” wrote a few days ago, the director of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
While this war seems hopeless, on Monday, in southern Israel, a conference brought together several ministers, including the controversial Ben Gvir and Smotrich. Some politicians once again affirmed their desire to push Palestinians to leave their territory.
It is in this context that the hope of a ceasefire was revived this week.
American and Israeli negotiators will meet in Doha for mediation, according to the Qatari Prime Minister, who specifies that mediators would have “got back in touch” with Hamas after the death of Yahya Sinouar. Hamas, for its part, says itready for talks if Israel commits to a ceasefire.
In the meantime, in the Gaza Strip, faced with the violence of the bombings, Civil Defense has announced that it is no longer able to continue its activities in the north of the enclave.
Since October 2023, bombings by the Israeli army have caused, according to Hamas, nearly 43,000 deaths, mostly women and children, in the Gaza Strip.