The Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 39 people and injured 105 in the last 24 hours, said the Enclave Ministry of Health.
Israeli strikes have continued to beat the besieged Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians, including several in an attack on a school refuge, local sources said.
On Wednesday, at least 40 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks, medical sources in the enclave told Tel Aviv Tribune. Among them, three people who were killed in a strike on Deir El-Balah, and eight others who lose their lives when their house was attacked in the district of Shujayea in Gaza City.
The Civil Defense of Gaza said that four other bodies had been withdrawn from two neighboring houses.
Meanwhile, more Palestinians have succumbed to their burn injuries after an Israeli strike struck their refuge in the city of Gaza during the night, which increases the number of deaths to at least 13, with reports of six people remaining under the rubble.
The rescue teams know at least six other victims who have been trapped under the rubble of Gaza City, but they are unable to reach them, Hani Mahmoud of Tel Aviv Tribune reported.
“It is not only their inability to go to the region,” he said. “They do not have the heavy equipment necessary to remove the rubble and collect the bodies.”
At least 105 Palestinians have been injured across the territory in the last 24 hours, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported.
The latest attacks occurred while the president of the Palestinian authority Mahmoud Abbas urged Hamas to release the remaining Israeli captives in Gaza.
Hamas, which governs Gaza and competes with the AP of Abbas, said that it would release all the captives in exchange for a complete Israeli withdrawal and a permanent end to war – but rejected Israel’s request to disarm, calling it a “red line”.
New ceasefire thrust?
Despite a one-month dead end in cease-fire negotiations after the attack by Israel on March 18, Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Bin Jassim Al Thani, said that Doha remains engaged in talks to end the war.
A delegation from Hamas arrived in Cairo Tuesday to discuss a new truce proposal.
Meanwhile, Israel continues to block aid, including food and medicine, from the entry to Gaza for an eighth consecutive week.
In unusually strong criticism, France, Germany and the United Kingdom called the “intolerable” Israel.
“Humanitarian aid should never be used as a political tool and the Palestinian territory should not be reduced or subject to any demographic change. Israel is linked to international law to allow the without hindrance of humanitarian aid,” said a joint European declaration.
Since Israel’s assault resumed, ending a fragile ceasefire two months earlier this year, at least 1,928 Palestinians were killed, pushing the total number of deaths above 51,300, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
