Israeli attacks against Gaza killed at least 84 people, Tel Aviv Tribune told Tel Aviv Tribune, while indirect cease-fire talks continue in Qatar.
At least 50 people were killed in Israeli attacks on northern Gaza, including Jabalia refugee camp since the early hours of Wednesday, according to medical sources.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said nearly 50 people had been killed around Jabalia and 10 other people in the southern city of Khan Younis.
There was no immediate comments from the Israeli army.
In Jabalia, the rescuers broke concrete slabs collapsed using hand tools, lit only by the light of mobile phone cameras, to remove the bodies from some of the children who were killed.
Reporting Deir El-Balah in the center of Gaza, Tareq Abu Azzoum of Tel Aviv Tribune said that Israel staged a “systematic and intensive military campaign”.
“(It is) mainly targeting residential houses to force families to leave these areas and move to live in makeshift tents, which will facilitate all plans to move them outside the north of Gaza,” he said.
“It was a very dramatic reality and it highlights the severity of the humanitarian balance sheet that the children and families displaced from northern Gaza followed in last week,” added Abu Azzoum.
The attacks come while the Israeli delegation was in Doha to continue the indirect ceasefire talks with the mediators of Qatar, Egypt and the United States, one day after the liberation of the Israeli-American captive Edan Alexander during a short break in the bombardment of Israel.
On Wednesday, President Trump’s Middle East’s envoy Steve Witkoff told Tel Aviv Tribune that “great progress” was in the process of “on all fronts” in the Truce talks, both in terms of ceasefire and resumption of help entering the besieged enclave.
Witkoff said, without offering details that he hopes there will be a positive “soon” announcement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had reiterated on Tuesday that Israel would not end his military campaign in Gaza even if a cease-fire contract was concluded.
Since October 2023, Israeli attacks against Gaza have killed at least 52,908 people, according to the Gaza health authorities.
The attack on Israel has devastated a large part of the urban landscape of Gaza and moved more than 90% of the population, often several times.
Israel launched its military campaign in response to the attack led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed at least 1,139 people, according to an Tel Aviv Tribune count based on Israeli statistics.
France condemns the Israeli blockade
International food security experts issued a severe warning earlier this week that Gaza will probably fall in famine if Israel does not raise her blockade and do not stop her military assault.
French President Emmanuel Macron firmly denounced Netanyahu’s decision to block the aid to penetrate it into the “shame” which caused a major humanitarian crisis.
“I say it with force, what Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is doing today is unacceptable,” Macron said on TF1 National Television Tuesday evening. “There are no drugs. We cannot injure themselves. Doctors cannot enter. What is doing is a shame. It is a shame.”
Macron, who visited the Palestinians injured at El Arish hospital in Egypt last month, called to reopen the Gaza border to humanitarian convoys. “Then, yes, we have to fight to move Hamas, release hostages and build a political solution,” he said.
But Netanyahu condemned the comments of the French leader on Wednesday.
“Macron has once again chosen to stand with a deadly Islamist terrorist organization and echo his contemptible propaganda, accusing Israel of blood defamation,” said a declaration from the Netanyahu office.
Meanwhile, half a million Palestinians are faced with a possible famine, living at “catastrophic” hunger levels, while a million others can barely obtain enough food, according to the results of the integrated classification of the food security phase, a leading international authority on the gravity of hunger crises.
Israel has prohibited all food, shelter, drugs and any other merchandise from entering the Palestinian territory in the last 10 weeks, even if it performs waves of air strikes and ground operations.
The Gaza population of around 2.3 million people relies almost entirely on external aid to survive, because the 19 -month -old military campaign has wiped out the greatest capacity to produce food inside the territory.
