At least 100 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources, with the Tel Aviv Tribune team on the ground signaling the intensification of strikes in the northern parts of the besieged enclave, where 61 people were killed in the city of Gaza alone.
Israeli air strikes on groups trying to guarantee the distribution of aid north of Gaza City killed at least 12 people on Wednesday.
At least 37 people who are desperately looking for food for their families have been killed by Israeli fires, including 16 killed near an aid point north of Rafah, according to Nasser Hospital in the south of Gaza and 14 others killed and 113 injured by Israeli forces awaiting aid in the North, according to the Gaza emergency and ambulance service.
During the last reference period, at least eight people, including three children, died of the famine and malnutrition imposed by Israeli, bearing the total number of deaths related to the war since the start of the war in October 2023 at 235, among them 106 children, the Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Rescue and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), described deaths as “the last of the war against children and childhood in Gaza”.
“This is added: more than 40,000 children have declared killed or injured due to a bombing and an air strike, at least 17,000 unaccompanied and separate children, and a million deeply traumatized and education children,” he wrote in an article on X.
“Children are children. No one should remain silent on the death of children or is brutally deprived of a future, wherever these children are, including in Gaza. ”
The Gaza health system has also been the subject of targeted destruction by the Israeli army, which is equivalent to “Medicide”, UN experts said on Wednesday, accusing Israel of having deliberately attacked and starved to health workers, paramedical paramedics and hospitals to annihilate medical care in the enclave.
“As human and UN human beings, we cannot remain silent on war crimes committed before our eyes to Gaza,” said Tlalaleng Mofocheng, special rapporteur on the right to health, and Francesca Albanese, a special report on the situation of human rights on Palestinian territory occupying since 1967.
“In addition to testifying to an ongoing genocide, we also testify to a Medidian ”, a sinister component of the intentional creation of calculated conditions to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza, which constitutes an act of genocide,” said the experts.
“The health and care workers have been continuously targeted, detained, tortured and are now, like the rest of the population, hungry,” they added.
Stop cease-fire to restart
While the number of deaths continues to increase in Gaza attacks by Israel and its punitive blockade, a delegation from the Palestinian group in Hamas was to start discussion in Egypt on Wednesday for a potential cease-fire.
The previous series of indirect ceasefire talks in Qatar ended with a dead end at the end of July, after Israel and the United States withdrew their delegations a few hours after Hamas submitted its response to a truce proposal.
The talks in Cairo will focus on the means of arresting war, providing aid and “putting an end to the suffering of our people in Gaza,” said Hamas manager Taher al-Nono.
A Palestinian official familiar with negotiations told the reuters news agency that “Hamas thinks that negotiation is the only way to end the war and is open to discuss all the ideas that would serve the war”.
A representative of Hamas also told Reuters that the group was willing to present Gaza governance to a non -partisan committee, but would not abandon its weapons before the creation of a Palestinian state.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to continue the war until Hamas is “destroyed”.
Israeli military plan to seize the city of Gaza
The Israeli forces have made an intensive assault of several days on Zeitoun, one of the largest districts of Gaza City, destroying more than 300 houses in the last three days, said the WAFA news agency, citing the civil defense of Gaza.
The district has been faced with bombing and continuous demolitions since Tuesday. Civil Defense officials said whole families had been killed when their homes were exploded without warning using high explove bombs which also leveled surrounding buildings.
Last week, Israel’s security firm approved the Gaza City seizure plans and forcibly move hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to concentration areas, despite the international condemnation of the United Nations and the dissent of Israel’s own soldier.
However, earlier Wednesday, the army said that its chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, had signed the “main framework” of the operational plan at a meeting with the best commanders, the representatives of Shin Bet and the senior officers.
According to the press release, Zamir “stressed the importance of increasing the preparation and preparation of troops for the recruitment of reserves, while carrying out skills training and providing breathing space before the next missions”.
Hani Mahmoud, from Tel Aviv Tribune, reporting from Gaza City, said the Israeli forces seemed to be at the preparatory stage of the enlarged invasion, hitting several districts of the day overnight.
“The explosions (were) clearly heard in the eastern part of the city of Gaza, in particular near the district of Zeitoun and the surrounding area to the Sabra district,” said Mahmoud. “Seven people were reported killed during the night of a mixture of heavy artillery and air strikes targeting the main residential clusters.”
In the city Sheikh Radwan district, three other people were killed when they fled the region.
Mahmoud said that Zikim’s crossing, the main entry point for helping Northern Gaza, had become “deadly for the Palestinians”, with limited aid trucks despite crowds of desperate people.
“More people die there, either from a deliberate Israeli military fire, or from the stampede,” he said.
Mahmoud added that there was an increasing international conviction of Israel “for having created the humanitarian crisis in Gaza”, but no change on the ground.
“They gave permission to certain aid trucks to enter Gaza, to create a buzz in the media that there is food that arrives,” he said. “But that has nothing to do with what is happening … More people still die daily from forced famine.”