Israeli strikes kill at least 50, Gaza town vents anger Israel-Palestine conflict information

Israeli forces intensified attacks on farms around the northern Gaza Strip despite untested ceasefire discussions.

Gaza’s health ministry said on Tuesday that at least 50 people were killed and dozens wounded in attacks in the besieged coastal enclave within a 24-hour reporting period.

Israeli tanks deepened their offensive into some Gaza Town districts such as Shujaiya, Sabra and Tal al-Hawa, where civilians reported the fiercest fighting since the beginning of the war.

Hamas and the armed wings of Palestinian Islamic Jihad said they fought against Israeli squads with antitank rockets and mortar fire in Tal al-Hawa and suffered casualties. Citizens of Gaza City reported “explosions and multiple gunfire”, in addition to the movement of helicopters in the southwestern areas during the evening.

The Israeli military has focused its attention on Gaza Town, ruling out that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad warring factions were operating there.

Citizens of Gaza City have now been informed to move to the central district of Deir al-Balah, which United Nations said is “already severely overcrowded with Palestinians displaced from other areas of the Gaza Strip.” Is”.

In the first weeks of the war, Israel called on civilians in the north of the enclave to move south, calling the area a “safe zone”, but it is now expanding its attacks there.

Maha Mahfouz, from the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza Town, fled her home with her two children and several other Palestinians. He said his part was not included in the actual evacuation orders, but “we are nervous because the bombings and shootings are very close to us.”

killed girls and youth

Seven people were killed in an explosion in an area of ​​the Nussirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Six people were killed in an attack on a location on al-Jala’a Boulevard in northern Gaza Town, and three more people were killed in a bombing in Lababida nearby.

Marwan Al-Sultan, director of Indonesian health facilities, said the Al-Ahli health facility brought home 80 more injured patients to the country. He said they needed to be packed into “every corner” as Gaza’s scientific facilities were destroyed by Israeli attacks and supply shortages left the wounded generation struggling to remain operational.

“Many cases require immediate surgery. Many cases suffer direct gunshot wounds to the head and require intensive care. Fuel and medical supplies are running low,” he said.

He said 16 bodies were also found in the hospital, some of which were women and children.

Civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said the army shelled homes in the Jaffa section of Gaza Town and that first responders “saw people lying on the ground and were not able to evacuate them”.

In a situational update on Tuesday, the Israeli military said its forces “killed dozens of terrorists and found a large number of weapons” during their operations in Gaza City.

It said its squads were conducting raids “up and down” the garden in the Shujaiya neighbourhood.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said it was “appalled” at the actual evacuation orders because “civilians are being killed and injured”.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of State, at least 38,243 people have been killed and 88,033 injured in Israeli fighting in Gaza since October 7. The fighting began when Hamas attacked southern Gaza, killing at least 1,139 people and capturing dozens.

Hassan Barari, a teacher of world affairs at Qatar College, said the extent of attacks on civilians is not uncommon.

“These atrocities have been the hallmark of the Israeli operation in Gaza from the very beginning,” he told Al Jazeera.

armistice talks

As Israel increases its bombardment of northern Gaza, Hamas and Israeli officials have been discussing a possible ceasefire with mediators.

However on Monday, Hamas warned that increased attacks would bring talks back to “zero”. Its political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, said he made “immediate contact” with the blackmailing mediators about the “disastrous consequences” of the horrific infiltration.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi discussed efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza with William Burns, director of the US Central Intelligence Company in Cairo on Tuesday, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement.

Burns and the head of Israel’s Mossad, David Barnia, will reportedly travel to Doha on Wednesday and meet with Qatar’s top minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, a key mediator.

Barari said the first clause of the ceasefire proposal – six weeks without any fighting – is the most important for the country of Gaza to regain some sense of security and receive desperately needed humanitarian aid after nine months of continuous attacks.

“The continuation of the war is not good for the Palestinians, but it is also not good for the Israelis. Barari said, if the Israeli government succeeds in freeing the hostages, the momentum to continue the war will diminish.

“I think it will be a warning to Israeli society that it is time to end the war.”