Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 82 people from Dawn, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, in the midst of current talks and criticism of Palestinian Force Transfer plans in Rafah.
Among the people killed Thursday, 15 people, including nine children and four women, were killed in an Israeli air attack pending nutritional supplies for children in Deir El-Balah, Central Gaza.
At least 30 others were injured, including 19 children during the Israeli attack.
Catherine Russell, director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), condemned the attack on assistance seekers and said that the murder of families trying to access the aid was “unacceptable”.
“This is the cruel reality confronted with many in Gaza today after months of insufficient help are authorized in the territory and the parties to the conflict that have not respected basic responsibilities to protect civilians,” said UNICEF official.
“The lack of help means that children face famine while the risk of famine increases. The number of malnutrition children will continue to increase until help and vital services are taken up on a large scale, “she added.
Russell called on Israel to ensure “full compliance with international humanitarian law” and to investigate the incident.
In addition, Hamas condemned the attack and said it was part of the “Israel in the gang in the course of genocide”.
Israel “increases its brutal massacres against innocent civilians in schools, streets, travel camps and civil centers, in a systematic behavior that is equivalent to a full -fledged ethnic cleaning crime, perpetrated in sight of the world,” said the Palestinian group.
Since Israel began his war in Gaza after October 7, 2023, attacks led by Hamas who killed 1,139 people in Israel, at least 57,762 Palestinians were killed and 137,656 others were injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Forced displacement
Since Sunday, Israel and Hamas, through mediators, including the United States, Qatar and Egypt, have been involved in intense negotiations to conclude a cease-fire agreement which will arouse Israeli attacks against the enclave and will send captives.
While Hamas said that he had agreed to release 10 captives in what should be a 60-day ceasefire, the group said on Thursday that the problems were on the aid flow to Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli troops.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was preparing to leave the United States on the last day of a series of meetings in Washington, DC, said that Israel continues to conclude an agreement for a 60-day break in the fighting and the release of half of the 50 remaining captives in Gaza.
Once this agreement in place, Israel is ready to negotiate a permanent end in war, said Netanyahu – but only on condition that Hamas disarms and abandons its governance and military capacities in Gaza.
“If this can be done thanks to the negotiations, so much the better,” he said in a statement. “If it is not carried out thanks to negotiations in 60 days, we will succeed in other ways; using strength. “
This comes when the Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced a plan earlier this week to force the Palestinians to a city of tents in Rafah, southern Gaza, potentially affecting any cease-fire contract.
Tamara Alrifai, director of senior communications from the United Nations Rescue and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the plan “would create massive concentration camps on the border with Egypt for the Palestinians” told Tel Aviv Tribune.
“We cannot be silent and accomplices of a large-scale forced displacement,” she said.
Of the EU agreement for Gaza Aid
Beyond the front lines, European officials have concluded a new agreement with Israel to allow food and fuel desperately necessary for Gaza, the head of foreign policy of the European Union said on Thursday.
The agreement could lead to “more level crossings, aid trucks and food trucks entering Gaza, the repair of vital infrastructure and the protection of acided workers,” said Kaja Kallas, the first EU EU diplomat of 27 members.
“We are counting on Israel to implement all agreed measures,” she said in an article on social networks.
Aid groups claim that Israeli military restrictions and recurring violence made assistance in Gaza even after Israel has relaxed a total blockade in May. Experts warned that the territory risked famine, 21 months after the War of Israel.
Kallas said the agreement would reactivate the aid corridors of Jordan and Egypt and reopen bakeries and community kitchens through Gaza.
The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gideon Saar, recognized the agreement at a conference in Vienna, saying that this was “after our dialogue with the EU”. He said the agreement includes “more trucks, more level crossings and more routes for humanitarian efforts”.
Neither Saar nor Kallas said that aid would go through the unmanaged system or the controversial alternative, the GHF mechanism supported by the United States and Israeli which was spoiled by violence and controversy.
