Israeli bombings on Gaza have killed dozens of people as they intensified attacks on the besieged territory amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.
The Gaza Health Ministry said the bodies of 30 people killed in Israeli raids arrived at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Friday, during what it described as a “day difficult and brutal.
At least 25 people were also killed and 50 others injured in Israeli attacks on tents of displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, near Rafah, in the south of the coastal enclave, he said.
In a separate incident, the Palestinian Civil Defense Agency said crews transported a number of people killed and injured during the Israeli bombardment of the al-Shakoush area, northwest of Rafah.
Israeli forces bombed the Gaza City municipality garage as well as a five-story building in the city, Tel Aviv Tribune Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul reported.
The Health Ministry said earlier that the Israeli army had killed at least 35 Palestinians in the previous 24 hours, bringing the death toll from the invasion to 37,431 since October 2023.
At the same time, the humanitarian situation continued to deteriorate due to the Israeli blockade on the territory, which brought Gaza to the brink of famine.
Medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, said Friday it may have to suspend its operations in Gaza due to dwindling medical supplies.
“MSF is facing severe shortages of essential medicines and equipment as it has been unable to deliver medical supplies to Gaza since late April,” the group said in a statement.
He explicitly blamed Israel for the situation, including the seizure and closure of the Rafah crossing last month. The gateway between Gaza and Egypt served as a major artery for the entry of humanitarian aid and aid workers.
“The closure of the Rafah crossing following the Israeli offensive in southern Gaza in early May, coupled with the lengthy administrative formalities imposed by Israeli authorities, has led to a considerably slow flow of humanitarian aid through the crossing which is open , Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem), entry point,” MSF said.
“This has led to huge queues of trucks and perilous delays in the delivery of humanitarian aid across Gaza. »
“Intentional attack against civilians”
Israeli attacks have killed more than 270 aid workers in Gaza since the war began in October, making it increasingly difficult for aid to actually reach Gaza.
Israel launched its assault on Rafah in early May despite international warnings, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians – many of whom had already fled other areas of Gaza.
But the United States, which has sternly warned Israel against invading Gaza’s southernmost city, insisted the Israeli assault was not a “major” offensive.
Friday’s deadly attacks come two days after a United Nations-backed commission concluded that Israel’s “deliberate” use of heavy weapons in Gaza constitutes an “intentional and direct attack against the civilian population.”
Israeli bombings have destroyed entire neighborhoods of Gaza, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected accusations of targeting civilians.
“To try to avoid civilian casualties…the Israeli army has made efforts that no other army in history has made,” he told the US publication Punchbowl News on Friday.
The interview was criticized by several international journalists for its “softball” questions.
Palestinian armed groups remain active in Gaza and Israel has only managed to rescue a handful of prisoners captured by Hamas during the October 7 attack, which killed more than 1,100 Israelis.
On Friday morning, the Israeli army announced the deaths of two of its soldiers, and the armed wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed several attacks against Israeli forces later in the day.
Netanyahu said Israel sought a “sustainable demilitarization” of Gaza, which would be followed by the establishment of a civilian administration “with the cooperation of inter-Arab sponsorship and assistance from Arab countries.”
“And then the third thing would obviously be a sort of deradicalization process that would start in schools and mosques to teach these people a future other than the annihilation of Israel and the murder of every Jew on the planet.” , he told Punchbowl News.
“And the fourth would be reconstruction, which would be largely supported, I think, by the international community.”