Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) – Over 64,000 Palestinians have been killed in almost two years of war In the Gaza Striplocal health officials said Thursday as Hamas and Israel. Repeated incompatible requests To end the fighting caused by the 2023 attacks by extremist groups.
Local hospitals said Israeli strikes killed 28 women and children overnight and Thursday as Israel advanced in the early stages of the attack. Gaza city was hit by hunger.
Hamas issued a statement late Wednesday that he was open to returning all the roughly 20 hostages that Israel believed were alive in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. The difficult challenge of rebuilding Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office dismissed the offer as a “spin” and said the war would continue until all hostages are returned. Israel has complete security controls of territory where private governments are entrusted to others.
I’ll talk about a temporary ceasefire It would have seen some of the hostages have been broken last month. The extremist group later accepted a proposal that said Hamas and Arab intermediaries were nearly identical to the previous ones that had been accepted by Israel, but there was no official indication that the speech had resumed.
The latest strike came in early stages when Israeli forces were operating on the outskirts of Gaza city. Planned attacks To take over the most populous Palestinian city, Approximately 1 million people live theremany of them have already been replaced multiple times.
Shifa Hospital in Gaza City Hospital records show that 25 bodies were received, including nine children and six women, after an Israeli strike struck evacuated people. Among the people killed were 10-day-old babies. Three more people have died in southern Gaza, according to Khan Younis’ Nasser Hospital.
There were no immediate comments from the Israeli military. Israeli military says it will target only extremists and avoid harming civilians. It denies Hamas’ civilian death, saying that extremists are entrenched in the populated regions.
Gaza’s health ministry said 64,231 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war. The latest update includes around 400 people who are estimated to be missing but are believed to have been confirmed dead. I don’t say how many of the people killed in the war are extremists or civilians. It says women and children account for about half of the deaths.
The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government and is staffed by medical professionals. That number It is considered a reliable estimate Wartime deaths by UN agencies and many independent experts. Israel challenged them without making its own sacrifice.
Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and sought 251 in an attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Most were then released by ceasefires or other agreements.
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Kareem Cheayeb reported from Beirut.
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