Israeli Fire kills at least 18 in Gaza, and US Envoy visited the hostage family protests

Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP)-Hospitals in Gaza reported to kill more than a dozen people from Israeli fire on Saturday, as Palestinians tolerated serious risks to search for food between airDrops and restrictions on overland aid delivery.

A Gaza Humanitarian Foundation near the distribution site, Yahia Yusuf, who came to seek assistance on Saturday morning, described a nervous scene that is now seriously familiar. After helping three people injured by gun bullet, he said that he looked around and saw others to bleed on the ground.

“This is the same daily episode,” said Yusuf.

In response to questions about several eyewitness accounts of violence in the northern of the four features of the Israeli -backed American contractor, GHF said that “nothing happened on or on our sites (nothing).”

The episode came a day later when US authorities visited a site and the US ambassador to Israel Mike Hukabi called the distribution “an incredible achievement”. Efforts to assist Hunger Gaza as the group’s efforts as international resentment have been killed by violence and controversies.

“We were not close to his (soldiers) and there was no danger,” in his 30s, a man Abed Salah said, who was among the crowd close to the GHF site near the Netzerim Corridor. “I miraculously survived death.”

What the danger facing help in Gaza has called international hunger experts this week “The worst situation of famine” In the encircle enclave. Nearly 22 -month -old military aggressive against Hamas broke security in the field of some 2 million Palestinians and made it Almost impossible to give food safely To keep people hungry.

The region’s health ministry said on Saturday that seven Palestinians died in Gaza Strip for causes related to malnutrition.

They include a child, it has been said in a statement, since the onset of the war, Gaza brings total deaths among children for causes related to malnutrition related to malnutrition. The ministry said that 76 adults in Gaza also died since the end of June for causes related to malnutrition, when it started counting the death among adults.

According to a United Nations report published on Thursday, from 27 May to 31 July, 859 people were killed near GHF sites. Hundreds of more killed along the routes of the food convoy.

GHF states that its armed contractors have used only black pepper spray or removed warning shots to prevent deadly congestion. Israel The army has said that it has only launched warning shots on those who reach their forces, although it was said on Friday that it was working to make routes under its control. Israel and GHF have stated that the toll has been exaggerated.

Health officials said at least 18 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes and bullets on Saturday, with three to a central Gaza Hospital from around a distribution site, along with 36 others.

Officials said the number of 10 casualties of Saturday was killed by attacks in Central and Southern Gaza. Nasir Hospital said that he received the bodies of five people killed in two separate strikes on tents that shelter the displaced people. The dead include two brothers and a relative, who were killed when their tents were killed close to a main road in Khan Unis.

The ambulance of the Ministry of Health and Emergency Service said the Israeli strike killed a family house in an area between Zavada and Deer al-Balah, killing two parents and three of their children.

Another strike hit a tent close to a closed prison gate, where the displaced sheltered in Khan Younis, a mother and her daughter died, he said.

The hospital said the Israeli forces killed five other Palestinians, who were among the crowds waiting for assistance between the newly constructed Morg Corridor in Rafa and between Rafa and Khan Younis.

Israel’s army immediately did not answer questions about attacks or deaths near assistance places.

Hostage families pushed Israel to deal

In Tel Aviv, the families of the hostages protested and urged the Israeli government to make a hard push for the release of their loved ones, including those shown in the footage issued by terrorist groups earlier this week.

Special envoy of US President Donald Trump, Steve Witchoff, a week after leaving the ceasefire negotiations, convicted Hamas’s intruders and promised to find other methods to free the hostages and secure Gaza.

Of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas -headed Miltants, about 20 are considered alive in Gaza. Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the second largest terrorist group in Gaza, released different videos of different hostages this week, triggering resentment between hostage families and Israeli society.

Israeli media has not broadcast the video, he is called promotion, but 21 -year -old Rome Braslavsky’s family allowed a picture to release a picture, showing him clearly decaying at an unknown location. After watching the video, his mother, Tammy Braslavsky convicted the top Israeli officials and demanded that they meet him.

Braslavsky told Ynet on Thursday, “They broke my child, I want him home now.” “Look at him: thin, lame, crying. All his bones are out.”

The protesters asked the Israeli government to make a deal to end the war, “asked them” to stop this nightmare and bring them out of the tunnels “.

“Do the right thing and just do it now,” said Lyor Korev, the chief strategy officer of the platform of hostages and missing families.

The aircraft expands despite limited effects

Along with Israel, many European countries announced plans to join the Jordan-led coalition orchestrating airDroping parcel this week, although most accept that the strategy remains deeply insufficient.

Filip Lazerini, head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, wrote on X on X, “If there is political will to allow aircraft to allow the aircraft – which is very expensive, insufficient and disabled, then there should be the same political will to open the road crossing,” Palestine Refugees wrote on X on X. “Let’s do what works and let us do our work.”

The war in Gaza began when Hamas attacked Southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people, mostly citizens. Israel’s anti -an aggressive More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killedAccording to Gaza’s Health Ministry, who does not distinguish between terrorists and citizens and works under the Hamas government. The United Nations and other international organizations see it as the most reliable source of data on casualties.

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Metz reported from Cairo to Jerusalem and Maggi.

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Wafa Shurfa, Sam Metz and Sammy Maggi, Associated Press