More than 30 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, medical sources told Al Jazeera, such as the Israel National Security Minister asked for a “full point” of humanitarian aid supplies to the Palestinian territory.
Local health authorities said Thursday that Israeli air attacks killed at least 15 people in two separate attacks in the city of Gaza, including nine people who were killed in a school house displaced from families in the suburb of the city Sheikh of the city. A separate strike killed nine people near a tent in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave.
Hospital sources told Al Jazeera that nine people were killed and wounded in a drone attack against Market deir El-Balah street, sending the death toll of Wednesday of Israeli attacks above 30.
The Palestine Society Red Medscent reported that three people were killed and other injured by the Israeli army fire while waiting for humanitarian aid near a distribution point in the Netzarim corridor in Central Gaza, the last one of a series of murders at the aid distribution points established by the controversial Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza and Israel and Israel (GHF).
According to the Gaza government media office, at least 549 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get food from the sites since the GHF began operating on May 27.
He said that attacks against those seeking help have also caused 4,066 injuries, and that 39 civilians remained missing after attacks.
According to the British beneficial organization Save the Children, more than half of the victims in attacks near the distribution centers were children. Of the 19 mortal incidents informed, the organization found that the children were among the victims in 10 of them.
“Nobody wants to help these distribution points and who can blame them, is a death sentence. People are terrified of being killed,” said Ahmad Alhendawi, except for the regional children's director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe.
The GHF has been criticized by the United Nations and international humanitarian organizations, which say it is inappropriate to deliver humanitarian supplies to the population of Gaza.
The GHF took care of the aid operations in May, after growing criticism against the total total blockade of Israel to help the strip. That had taken most of the population to the edge of the starvation. Since then, a drip of help has been allowed, but the disastrous humanitarian situation has hardly improved.
On Thursday, the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, asked the Israeli government to reimpose their total blockade.
“The humanitarian aid that currently enters Gaza is an absolute misfortune,” he said, adding that “what is needed in Gaza is not a temporary detention of 'humanitarian' aid, but a complete stop.”
Meanwhile, the UN Agency for Palestinian refugees warned that Gaza's families run the risk of dying of thirst amid the collapse of water supply systems. Unrwa said that only 40 percent of drinking water production facilities are still working, and that “Gaza is on the verge of man -made drought.
“Water extraction from wells stopped due to fuel shortage, others located in dangerous areas to which they are difficult to access, the pipes are broken and drops, and water tankers that often do not arrive,” said the agency.
Diplomacy, once again?
While Israel continues its assault on Gaza, the Arab mediators, Egypt and Qatar, backed by the United States, contacted the parties at war in an attempt to maintain new conversations of high fire, but an exact time was not established for a new round, according to sources of Hamas.
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, who directs a coalition with extreme right matches, insists that Hamas, who has governed Gaza for almost two decades, releases all the captives, renounces any role and placed his weapons to end the war.
Hamas, in turn, has declared that he would free the captives if Israel accepts a high permanent heat and removes all his Gaza troops. While he has admitted that Gaza would no longer govern, Hamas has refused to discuss disarmament.
