The civil defense in the Gaza band announced on Monday the death of 19 people in several Israeli strikes in the north of the Palestinian territory, according to a spokesperson for this rescue service.
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“Our teams found 15 martyrs and 10 injured, the majority of whom are children and women, following an Israeli strike against three apartments (…) in the northwest of the city of Gaza,” the spokesman, Mahmoud Bassal, told AFP.
In addition, “four martyrs and four injured were extracted from a house (…) in the city of Beit Lahiya”, in the north of the Gaza Strip, he added.
Contacted by AFP regarding these strikes, the Israeli army was unable to react immediately.
The Israeli army resumed its bombings and its offensive on the Gaza Strip on March 18, ending two months of truce with Hamas in the war launched by the unprecedented attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
This attack led to the death of 1218 people on the Israeli side, for most civilians, according to an AFP count based on official data.
Of the 251 people kidnapped that day, 58 are still retained in Gaza, 34 of which were declared dead by the Israeli army. Hamas also retains the body of an Israeli soldier killed in a previous war in Gaza in 2014.
Israel blocked on March 2 the entry of all humanitarian aid in the territory, accusing Hamas of diverting it. Israel says that this total blockade is intended to put pressure on the Islamist movement to release all the hostages it holds.
Since then, the United Nations has been calling on Israel to reopen the territory with humanitarian aid, vital for the population faced with a dramatic humanitarian situation, and exposed to famine according to UN officials.
The Israeli reprisal campaign for the attack on October 7 left at least 52,535 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health of Hamas, deemed reliable by the UN.
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