Israeli forces killed at least 63 people through Gaza, a few hours after the army announced that it would start to “take a break” for 10 hours a day in certain regions to allow humanitarian aid to pass.
On Sunday, the Israeli army said that it would temporarily stop military activity every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (07: 00-17: 00 GMT) in certain parts of Central Gaza and North, including Al-Mawasi, Deir El-Balah and Gaza City. He also undertook to open designated aid corridors for food and medical convoys between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m.
But hours after the first day of “humanitarian breaks”, the Israeli air raids resumed.
“There was an air strike on Gaza City, and this is one of the areas that has been designated as a safe area and where Israeli forces will stop their military operations,” the Khoudary Hindy of Tel Aviv Tribune reported to Deir El-Balah.
“According to the Palestinians from this region, a bakery has been targeted.”
The bombing occurs as the global outcry develops on the worsening of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza inflicted by Israel.
The death of the famine increases
The Gaza Ministry of Health reported that six other Palestinians, including two children, died of hunger causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the number of famine deaths at 133 since October 2023.
Among the dead, Zainab Abu Haleeb, five months old, succumbed to malnutrition at Nasser hospital.
“Three months inside the hospital, and that is what I get in return, that she died,” said her mother, Israa Abu Haleeb, while the child’s father rocked his little body wrapped in a white shroud.
The World Food Program (WFP) said on Sunday that in three Gaza residents spent days without eating, and that nearly 500,000 people suffer from “famine type conditions”. The World Health Organization also warned last week that more than 20% of pregnant and breastfed women were malnutric.
Falestine Ahmed, a mother in Gaza, told Tel Aviv Tribune that she had lost a third of her body weight.
“I used to weigh 57 kg (126 pounds), now I weigh 42 kg (93 pounds), and my son and I received a diagnosis of severe malnutrition,” she said. “We have barely have food at home, and even when available, it is far too expensive for us to allow them.”
Israel has authorized new corridors to get help, while the United Arab Emirates and Jordan have supplied supplies on the territory. However, deliveries have been heavy with danger and are far too few.
Hani Mahmoud of Tel Aviv Tribune reported that a fall in aid has injured nearly a dozen people. “Eleven people were reported with injuries because one of these pallets fell directly on tents on this travel site near Al-Rasheed Road.”
Despite increasing evidence of extreme hunger, Israel continues to deny that famine exists in Gaza. The Israeli army insists that it works to improve humanitarian access.
But the scenes of despair contradict official demands. “I came to this sense, risking my life for my children. They haven’t eaten for a week,” said Smoud Wahdan, a mother looking for flour, speaking to Tel Aviv Tribune. “At the very least, I was looking for a piece of bread for my children.”
Another moved mother, Tahani, said her child struck by cancer was one of these suffering. “I came to seek flour, looking for food to feed my children. I hope that the disciples of God wake up and see all these people. They die. “
Help groups exceeded
Liz Allcock, responsible for protecting medical aid to the Palestinians, told Tel Aviv Tribune that she had never seen Gaza in such a state. “The magnitude of the famine and the number of people you see walking who are literally the skin and the bones (are shocking) … The money really has no value here when there is nothing to buy,” she said.
“The whole Gazan company – it doesn’t matter who they are – suffers from critical food shortages,” she added, warning that a quarter of the population risks acute malnutrition.
The United Nations claim that aid deliveries can only succeed if Israel approves the rapid movement of convoys by its control points.
UN chief AID, Tom Fletcher, noted that if certain restrictions seemed to have relaxed, the extent of the crisis required much more action.
“These are progress, but large amounts of aid are necessary to avoid famine and a catastrophic health crisis,” he said.
Diplomatic pressure constructed
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that he had discussed the situation of Gaza with his Turkish and Egyptian counterparts and plans to co-analyze a conference in New York next week focused on the guarantee of a two-state solution.
“We cannot accept that people, including a large number of children, die of hunger,” he said.
Macron confirmed that France would soon recognize the Palestinian state, joining more than 140 UN member states.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared in an interview that the blocking of aid of Israel was a violation of “humanity and morality”.
“It is clearly clearly a violation of international law to prevent the delivery of food, which was a decision that Israel made in March,” he told ABC News. However, he added that Australia was not ready to recognize “imminent” of the Palestinian state.
In the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the cease-fire talks led by President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, are making a lot of progress.
“We are optimistic and hope that any day now, we will have a cease-fire agreement,” Rubio told Fox News, suggesting that half of the remaining Israeli captives could be published soon.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said 88 Palestinians had been killed and 374 injured in Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours.
Since the War of Israel against Gaza began in October, at least 59,821 Palestinians were killed and more than 144,000 injured.
Despite discussions on breaks and diplomacy, violence continues to degenerate.
