Deadly Israeli air strikes hit Gaza
Hospital officials in northern Gaza said many people had been killed in nighttime Israeli airstrikes.
Search and rescue operations began in the early morning after Israel bombed at least five buildings in Beit Lahiya and Gaza City, Gaza’s rescue team said.
Hamas-aligned media said dozens of people were killed and many, including women and children, remained buried in the rubble.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment. It has recently stepped up its offensive in northern Gaza, saying it is preventing Hamas from regrouping.
Parts of northern Gaza under Israeli siege Almost no humanitarian aid has been delivered in 40 daysthe United Nations earlier warned.
Gaza medical staff said they were working to treat the injured, and aid agencies said they were unable to deliver essential supplies to the area.
Earlier this week, Israeli air strikes killed at least 34 people A five-story residential building in Beit Lahiya, the local civil protection agency said.
Agence France-Presse quoted the agency as saying that many of the dead were women and children.
Israel’s ground offensive in northern Gaza has displaced as many as 130,000 people over the past five weeks.
The United Nations says water and food supplies are dwindling in the towns of Beit Lahiya, Jabaliya and Beit Hanoun, with 75,000 people still besieged.
Human Rights Watch reported last week that Israel had deliberately caused the mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza and committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.
According to the United Nations, some 1.9 million people, or 90% of Gaza’s population, have fled their homes in the past year, and 79% of the territory is under evacuation orders issued by Israel.
Israel launched a campaign to destroy Hamas after it launched an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing approximately 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
Since then, nearly 44,000 people have died in Gaza and more than 104,000 have been injured, according to the Hamas-governed Gaza Health Ministry.
Wednesday, US blocks Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at UN Security Council – It used its veto for the fourth time during the conflict to protect its ally Israel.
Fourteen of the 15 Security Council members voted in favor of the draft, which requires that the war in Gaza “must end immediately, unconditionally and permanently, and all remaining hostages must be released immediately and unconditionally.”
Robert Wood, the deputy U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the document “abandoned” the need for “the link between a ceasefire and the release of hostages.”
Wood said the proposed resolution would send a “dangerous message” to Hamas.
In a separate development project, US mediator Amos Hochstein arrives in Israel From Beirut.
He said he saw a “real opportunity” to end the conflict in Lebanon after the Lebanese government and Hezbollah largely agreed to a U.S. ceasefire proposal.
