DEIR ALBALA, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli airstrikes kill at least 50 people, including several children, across the Gaza Strip Gaza Stripattacked Hamas security personnel and Israeli-declared humanitarian zones.
As the shelling continued from Thursday to Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office authorized delegations from the Mossad intelligence agency, the internal security agency Shin Bet, and the military to continue negotiations for a ceasefire in Qatar. announced that it had been given.
Israeli media reported that the delegation would depart on Friday. Hamas was not immediately available for comment. U.S.-led negotiations stalled multiple times during the 15-month war.
Israeli military attack on the seaside humanitarian zone known as Mwashi has left hundreds of thousands of people displaced Palestinians are huddled there in damp winter weather.
“Everyone was sheltering in tents from the cold, but suddenly we realized that our world had turned upside down. Why and for what purpose?” Ziyad Abu Jabal, evacuee from Gaza City said.
The early morning strike left at least 10 people dead, including three children and two Hamas leaders.
The Israeli military said it had targeted a senior police officer, claiming that the group was involved in gathering intelligence used by Hamas militants to attack Israeli forces.
An Israeli airstrike also killed at least eight people in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. The men are Local committee members assisting in securing aid convoysAccording to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the body. An Associated Press reporter at the scene confirmed the damage.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
In southern Gaza, the military killed five police officers in the eastern city of Khan Younis. Israeli government spokesman David Mensah said the attack targeted the head of Hamas’ internal security forces in southern Gaza.
“Where did you find him? Elsewhere, of course, hiding in the humanitarian zone of Khan Yunis, where Gazans are evacuating from this war,” Mensah said.
Israel has repeatedly targeted Gaza police during the war, contributing to the breakdown of law and order and making it difficult for humanitarian groups to provide aid. Israel accuses Hamas of hijacking aid for its own purposes.
Before the war, the Hamas-run government maintained a high level of security with tens of thousands of police. At the same time, violently suppress dissent. Police officers are now virtually absent from the streets in many regions.
Meanwhile, in Magazi, central Gaza, three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on a group of people walking on the street. Their bodies were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
At least 24 people, including children, were killed in Israeli military attacks in central Gaza, including Maghazi and Nuseyrat refugee camps, late Thursday and early Friday, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
The war was sparked by an attack on Israel by Hamas-led militants on October 7, 2023. The insurgents killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted about 250. About 100 hostages remain in the Gaza Strip, and at least a third are thought to be dead.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with more than half of the dead being women and children, according to the Gaza Strip Health Ministry. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its tally.
The Israeli military says it targets only the militants and blames Hamas for civilian deaths, as the fighters operate in densely populated residential areas. The military claimed to have killed 17,000 insurgents without providing evidence.
war is caused widespread destruction Approximately 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people were evacuated. many of them multiple times.
Hunger is widespread. Children, some barefoot or wearing sandals, waited in line at a food distribution center in Deliarbara on Thursday, holding metal buckets and other containers.
Prime Minister Netanyahu discharged from hospital after surgery
Prime Minister Netanyahu was discharged from hospital on Thursday. sunday prostate surgery.
Doctors at Hadassah Einkerem Hospital said Netanyahu was recovering well, although there was still a period of recovery. Despite doctors’ orders to remain hospitalized, the 75-year-old leader temporarily left the facility on Tuesday to participate in a vote in Israel’s parliament.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed to advance the Gaza Strip until Hamas is destroyed. However, although the extremist group has been greatly weakened, it has repeatedly rallied in parts of the territory, particularly in the largely isolated north, after Israeli forces withdrew.
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Khalid reported from Cairo.
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