Jerusalem (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel has no choice but to finish work and fulfill Hamas’s defeat. “
He is speaking to foreign media in Jerusalem and defending a planned military aggressive. He said that “Our goal is not to capture Gaza, our goal is to free Gaza.” He is also pushing back that he calls the “global campaign of lies” because the condemnation of the plan grows both inside and outside.
This is a braking news update. The earlier story of AP is below.
Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP)-At least 26 Palestinians died demanding assistance in Gaza strip, hospitals and witnesses said, because the families of Israeli hostages called for a general strike to oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to expand military operations in the area.
Netanyahu is going to give a press conference for foreign and local media on Sunday amid international condemnation of his plans. His address will come just before the United Nations Security Council holds an emergency meeting on Israel’s plan to control the city of Gaza.
Hospital officials said they found bodies from areas where the Palestinians were getting help – either with the food convoy routes or in Gaza to the aid distribution points to run privately in Gaza.
The dead included 10 people, who were killed waiting for the aid trucks close to the newly constructed Morg Corridor, which separates the southern cities of Rafa and Khan Younis, Nasar Hospital said.
According to Gaza Health Ministry and Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, another six people were killed, waiting for assistance at North Gaza near Zikim Crossing, which received the number of casualties.
In Central Gaza, the witnesses stated that they first heard the warning shots, before the fire broke out before the fire was aimed at the crowd of assistance seeking to reach the food distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. AP cannot independently confirm who removed the shots. At the nearby Nusrat refugee camp, AWDA Hospital said that four people were killed by Israeli bullets.
“First, it was in the air, then they started setting fire on people,” said Avada, who waited for hundreds of meters (yards) from the GHF site in the area.
Nasar Hospital said six other support seekers were killed while trying to reach GHF sites in Khan Younis and Rafah.
The United States and Israel supported the foundation as an alternative to the union aid system months ago, but its early operations have been killed by deaths and chaos, in which the aids to come under the bullets near the routes leading to the sites.
In response to the Associated Press inquiry, the GHF Media Office said: “Today we had no incidents on or on our sites and these incidents are associated with the crowd in an attempt to rob the convoy.”
The Israeli army also said that the Central Gaza Assistance places had no incidents to include Israeli soldiers.
Seven people were killed in an airstrike, local hospitals reported – Three people and four people near fishermen’s port in Gaza City, two of them, in a strike, who was killed in a tent in Khan Younis. The Israeli army did not comment on the attacks immediately, but has accused Hamas of working from civilian areas.
Hunger Deaths Mount, Toll 100 among these children
Israel’s air and ground are aggressive Most of the population displaced And Pushed the area towards famineTwo more Palestinian children died on Saturday after bringing the toll of death among children in Gaza after the war started.
Since the end of June, a total of 117 adults have died due to reasons related to malnutrition, when the ministry started counting this age group.
The 61,400 Palestinian Ministry is not involved in the death of the 61,400 Palestinians in the toll war with hunger. The Ministry does not distinguish between the parties, fighters or citizens by the part of the Hamas-operated government and by medical professionals, but says that about half of the dead are women and children. The United Nations and independent experts consider it to be the most reliable source of war casualties.
Labor strike urged Luming Gaza City aggressive in Israel
The possibility of expanding the war has expressed displeasure within both international and Israel, where the mourned families and relatives of the hostage still held in Gaza urged companies to declare a general strike next week.
Thousands of Israelis held a rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, which the local media called one of the largest anti -government protests in recent months.
Families and their supporters hoped to pressurize the government to reversed their decision to handle the Gaza city, warning that expanding the war would threaten their loved ones.
Out of 251 people, when Hamas -led militants attacked Southern Israel on October 7, 2023, around 1,200, about 50 Israel killed in about 50 Gaza, 20 Israel was considered alive.
Lishhe Miran-Lavi, whose husband Omar is one of the hostages, also appealed to US President Donald Trump and Special Envoy Steve Witcofof to stop the war.
“The decision to send the army deeply into Gaza is a threat to my husband, Omri. But we can still stop the disaster,” he said.
Also on Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katj visited the northern part of the Israeli -occupied West Bank. He said that Israel’s army will remain in the refugee camps of the area at least by the end of the year.
This year around 40,000 Palestinians have been run from their homes. West Bank’s largest displacement Since Israel captured the region in 1967. Israel says that there is a need to operate to seal extremism, as violence has increased by all parties since October 7, 2023, was attacked in the war in Gaza.
Katj said on Sunday that the number of warnings about the attacks against Israelis in West Bank had reduced by 80% since the operation started in January.
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Metz reported from Cairo to Jerusalem and Maggi. Associated press writer Melani Lidman contributed to Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Wafa Shurfa, Sam Metz and Sammy Maggi, Associated Press
