A flotilla of three ships left a port in Cyprus on Saturday to deliver 400 tons of food and other supplies to Gaza as concerns about hunger in Gaza grew.
The charity World Central Kitchen said the ships and one barge contained enough cargo to prepare more than 1 million meals, including rice, pasta, flour, beans, canned vegetables and protein. Also on board are dates, traditionally used during Ramadan to break the daily fast.
It was unclear when the ships arrived in Gaza. Earlier this month, the first ship delivered 200 tons of food, water and other aid.
The United Nations and partners have warned that famine could hit hard-hit, largely remote northern Gaza as early as this month. Humanitarian officials say supplies arriving by sea and air are not enough and Israel must allow more aid to be delivered by road. The U.N.’s top court has ordered Israel to open more land crossings and take other measures to address the crisis.
Armistice talks to resume, sources say
Meanwhile, Egypt’s state-run Al Qahera TV said truce talks between Israel and Hamas would resume on Sunday, citing an unnamed Egyptian security source. The channel has close ties with the country’s intelligence services.
On October 7, militants led by Hamas swept through southern Israel and launched terrorist attacks, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 250 people hostage. The war only achieved a week-long ceasefire. . Some Israelis rallied again on Saturday to express frustration with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and urge him to resign.
Families of the hostages vowed to take to the streets across Israel. Raz bin Ami, wife of hostage Ohad bin Ami, said: “Give the negotiating team a broad mandate and tell them, ‘Don’t go home without a deal, bring back our loved ones. people’.”
Nearly six months of fighting has destroyed Gaza’s vital infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and homes, as well as roads, sewage systems and power grids. The United Nations and international aid agencies say more than 80 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced.
In the coastal tent camp of Moisi, mothers said they feared their young children would lose memories of pre-war life.
“We tell them to write and draw. They only draw tanks, missiles or airplanes. We tell them to draw something beautiful, a rose or anything. They cannot see these things,” said Wafaa Abu Samra’s mother said. The children took turns on a small slide twice the length of their bodies, eventually landing on the sand.
Gaza’s health ministry said 32,705 Palestinians had been killed in the past 24 hours, with 82 bodies taken to hospitals. The health ministry did not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its death toll, but said most of the victims were women and children.
Israel said more than a third of the dead were militants but provided no evidence to support this and blamed Hamas for civilian casualties because the group operates in residential areas.
The Israeli military admitted on Saturday that it had shot dead two Palestinians and wounded a third on a Gaza beach, responding to a video aired by Al Jazeera earlier this week that showed a man After falling to the ground after walking in an open area, a bulldozer pushed two bodies into the beach. Trash-strewn sand. Troops opened fire after the men allegedly ignored warnings, the military said.
The Israeli military said it was continuing to attack dozens of targets in Gaza, days after the United Nations Security Council first called for a ceasefire.
Aid falls in Gaza
Gaza also received aid. The US military said in an airdrop on Friday that more than 100,000 pounds of aid had been distributed that day, totaling nearly 1 million pounds, as part of a multinational effort.
The United States also welcomed the formation of the new Palestinian autonomous government and said it was accepting the revised cabinet lineup as a step toward political reform. The Biden administration has called for the “revitalization” of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, hoping it can also run Gaza after the war ends.
The agency is led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who this month chose U.S.-educated economist Mohammad Mustafa as prime minister. But Israel and Hamas – which drove Abbas’s security forces out of Gaza in the 2007 takeover – have rejected the idea of it running Gaza. The agency has little popular support or legitimacy among Palestinians because of its security cooperation with Israel in the West Bank.
According to local health authorities, more than 400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the West Bank or East Jerusalem since October 7. Dr. Fawaz Hamad, director of Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin, told local Awda TV station that Israeli forces killed a 13-year-old boy in nearby Qabatiya early on Saturday. The Israeli military said the incident was under review.
Israel says it will maintain open security control of Gaza after the war and work with Palestinians not affiliated with the Palestinian Authority or Hamas. It is unclear who in Gaza would be willing to take on such a role.
Hamas has warned Palestinians in Gaza not to cooperate with Israel in administering the territory, saying anyone who does so will be considered a collaborator, which was interpreted as a death threat. Instead, Hamas called on all Palestinian factions to form a power-sharing government ahead of national elections, which have not been held in 18 years.
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