Palestinian health officials said on Tuesday that DIR al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP)-Israel’s attacks killed at least 20 people in Gaza. A new intrusion in a field There was a huge fight during the 21 -month war.
The expansion of Israel’s grassroots invasion comes as Israel and Hamas, considering the conditions for a ceasefire for Gaza that will stop the fight and free at least some hostages.
The latest round of negotiations has not indicated success for weeks, although negotiaters expressed optimism. With a large part of Gaza with Israel, a required, a required Soldiers There is a major point of dispute in the talks.
The Trump administration has pushed Israel to wrap the war and is Signs of impatience shownOn Monday, President Donald Trump’s Press Secretary Karolin Lewitt said that there were “Guard of Guards” from the recent Israeli strike on a Catholic Church in Trump Gaza.
Top Christian priests visited that church Last week and a press conference on Tuesday in Jerusalem called for ending the war.
Health officials say at least 20 killed in Israeli attacks
According to the city’s Shifa Hospital, in the western part of Gaza, the sea shore, along the sea shore, hit the displaced tents in the Shati Shati Shatir Camp, which received the number of casualties. The Israeli army said it did not know about such a strike by its forces.
The dead included three women and three children, Dr. Mohammad Abu Selmiah, the director of the hospital told the Associated Press. The other Palestinians were injured, he said.
According to the footage shared by the ambulance and emergency service of the Ministry of Health, the strike separated the tent, and left some dead on the ground.
Hospitals said the night -overnight strike killed a crowd of Palestinians, who were waiting for the aid trucks in Gaza City. According to Palestinian Red Crescent, at least 118 were injured.
Ahmed Mahana, who said that he was waiting on a coastal road for the aid trucks, said the crowd was killed twice from the Israeli plane.
The Israeli army did not comment on the strike of Gaza city. Israel blamed the deaths of Palestinian citizens on Hamas as terrorists work in densely populated areas. This accuses the group of prolonging the war as Hamas has not accepted the terms of Israel for the ceasefire – including the call to leave the power and dislike.
Heavy explosions were heard in the region that avoided the major battle
In Dir al-Balah at Central Gaza, which has not seen the first major ground operations or widespread destruction, Palestinians reported heavy explosions from strikes and tank shelling overnight.
“It was a non-stop,” said Ayman Abi Hasan. “We felt that the area was shaking, as if there was an earthquake.”
The man, who is in his 40s, ran away from a region in the south-western side of Dear al-Bala, who was an attack earlier this week. He moved to the Mavasi area near the sea.
The Israeli army ordered withdrawal from some parts of the city earlier this week.
Hamas -led militants kidnapped 251 people on October 7, 2023, attacking the war and killed about 1,200 people. Gaza is still considered less than half of the 50 hostages.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, more than 59,000 Palestine have been killed during the war. Its count does not distinguish between terrorists and citizens, but the ministry says that more than half are dead women and children. The ministry is part of the government of Hamas, but the United Nations and other international organizations see it as the most reliable source of data on casualties.
Church leaders saw an ‘almost completely destroyed’
In Jerusalem, top church leaders told the international community to help end the war in Gaza after a rare journey in the conflict-struggle region last week.
Gaza’s only Catholic Church traveled a day later. Israeli Shell In an attack, three people were killed and 10 were injured, including a priest who developed a close friendship With heavenly Pope Francis,
The strike condemned the Pope Leo XIV and Trump, and inspired regrets from Israel, stating that it was an accident.
“It’s time to eliminate this nonsense, ends the war,” Latin Patrik Cardinal Pierbatista Pizabala told reporters.
Since the onset of the war, Israel has banned access to Gaza, although church leaders have entered previous occasions, usually to mark the major holidays.
Pizabla and Greek Orthodox Patrik Theophyllos III said he saw a gaza that “almost completely destroyed.” He said that he saw big people, women and boys “completely hungry and hungry” and called for immediate human assistance.
“Every hour causes deep losses without food, water, medicine and shelter,” said Pizabla. “It is morally unacceptable and unfair.”
Israel has greatly reduced the amount of assistance of gaza and assistance that enters, often receives from chaos and violence at distribution points.
On Tuesday, the United Nations stated that more than 1,000 people have died to seek assistance in Gaza since Israeli re -designed the distribution of goods for Palestinians. Accusing Israel of murders, the United Nations stated that more than 750 died of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israel-and US-supported group “in the surrounding area”. GHF mostly denies that violence occurs on its sites.
GHF did not immediately respond to the remarks request.
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Maggi reported from Cairo and Jerusalem from Goldenburg.
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Wafa Shreefa, Sammy Maggi and Tia Goldenburg, Associated Press
