At least 25 Palestinians, mostly children, were killed this Sunday, November 10, in an Israeli strike which hit a family home in the north of the Gaza Strip, devastated by more than a year of war, according to reports. local emergency services.
Another Israeli strike targeted a house also in the north of the besieged Palestinian territory, killing five people, they added. “Civilians are still under the rubble.”
Israel has vowed to destroy Palestinian Hamas which carried out an attack of unprecedented scale and violence against its territory on October 7, 2023, from Gaza. His army launched a destructive offensive in retaliation which left tens of thousands dead and caused a humanitarian disaster in the small territory.
All attempts made since the beginning of the year by mediators – Qatar, Egypt, the United States to achieve a cease-fire with the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza have failed.
On Saturday, Qatar announced that it had suspended its mediation. He “will resume them when Israel and Hamas demonstrate will and seriousness” to cease hostilities, said Foreign Affairs spokesperson Majed Al Ansari.
The Palestinian Civil Defense reported “at least” 25 dead, “including 13 children”, in a strike which targeted a family home in Jabalia, and “more than 30 injured”.
The other strike which left five dead took place in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, according to her.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army said it was examining this information.
“Hell on Earth”
Since October 6, Israeli troops have been carrying out an air and ground offensive against the north of the Gaza Strip, particularly in Jabalia, where Hamas is, according to them, seeking to regroup its forces.
By decimating its leadership, the army inflicted coups on Hamas, which took power in Gaza in 2007, two years after Israel withdrew from the territory it occupied for 38 years.
Since the start of the war, Israel has besieged some 2.4 million residents in Gaza, most of whom have been displaced.
The territory is a veritable “hell on earth” for the million children who live there, Unicef said in October.
The attack of October 7, 2023 led to the death of 1,206 people on the Israeli side, the majority civilians, according to an AFP count based on official figures and including hostages who died or were killed in captivity in the Strip. Gaza.
More than 43,550 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli reprisals in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to data from the Hamas Health Ministry.
“Enough, these massacres, these martyrs and these wars! How much longer will this last? Enough! We are exhausted,” says Oum Mohammad, a displaced person installed in a tent near a hospital in Deir al – Balah (center), after Israeli raids nearby on Saturday.
“How many more tears must be shed and how much blood must be shed before someone takes our children home?” exclaimed Nina Wenkert, the mother of a hostage, at a rally in Tel Aviv the same day, demanding a dream deal.
“Famine thresholds”
Carried out after verifying a partial count of war victims, a report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published Friday affirmed that women and children represented “nearly 70%” of the deaths. in Gaza over the period November 2023 to April 2024.
The Israeli army said it was “committed to operating within the laws of armed conflict” and assured it was striving to “minimize harm to non-combatants”.
On Saturday, the UN warned in a report that “starvation thresholds may already have been crossed or will be crossed in the near future” in Gaza.
A report deemed “biased” by Israel.
In support of Hamas, Lebanese Hezbollah opened a front against Israel on October 8, 2023, which degenerated into open war on September 23 with a campaign of intense Israeli strikes, mainly against the strongholds of the Lebanese movement.
Since September 30, Israeli troops have also been carrying out a ground offensive in the south of the country, bordering northern Israel.
Israel says it wants to neutralize Hezbollah in the border regions of southern Lebanon to allow the return home of 60,000 residents of northern Israel displaced by the fire of this pro-Iranian movement.
