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Israeli airstrikes killed at least 12 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday and residents feared new air and ground attacks were aimed at emptying areas of civilians in the enclave's north.
The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said Israel was scaling back the number of aid trucks allowed into Gaza, compounding shortages of food, medicine and other essential supplies, though Israel denied this.
In the latest bloodshed, medics said seven people were killed in an attack on two houses in the north Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on Monday. Five more were killed in separate strikes in central and southern parts of the enclave, medics told Reuters.
Several people were wounded in the attacks, they said, adding that Israeli forces had sent tanks into the northeast of Nuseirat camp earlier on Monday.
Israel deployed tanks into Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahiya on Oct. 5, saying it intended to prevent Hamas fighters from regrouping.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli forces were continuing to bomb the Kamal Adwan Hospital and had injured many staff and patients.
"The medical staff cannot move between the hospital departments and cannot rescue their injured colleagues. It seems that a decision has been made to execute all the staff who refused to evacuate the hospital," it said.
Israel's military says it makes efforts to minimize harm to Gaza's civilians as its troops battle Palestinian militants who use shelters and hospitals to stage attacks against its forces. Hamas denies this.
More than 70 patients and their guardians were safely evacuated from Kamal Adwan and Al-Awda hospitals to other medical facilities in Gaza, Israel said on Monday, while fuel, water and medical supplies were delivered to the hospitals.
Palestinians said the new offensives and orders for people to leave were aimed at emptying two northern Gaza towns and a refugee camp to create buffer zones. Israel says it is trying to keep civilians out of harm's way as it fights Hamas there.
The Hamas-run Gaza government media office put the number of Palestinians killed since Oct. 5 at 1,800. It said 4,000 others were wounded.
There was no confirmation on the figure from the territory's health ministry and Israel has repeatedly accused the Hamas media office of exaggerating death tolls.
Israel says its forces have killed hundreds of Palestinian gunmen and dismantled military infrastructure in Jabalia in the past month.
More than 43,300 Palestinians have been killed in more than a year of war in Gaza, according to Gaza authorities, and much of the territory has been reduced to ruins.
The war erupted after Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.
UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini said on Monday that Israel has scaled back the entry of aid trucks into the Gaza Strip to an average of 30 trucks a day, the lowest in a long time. This represented only 6% of the commercial and humanitarian supplies that used to enter Gaza before the war, he said.
"This cannot meet the needs of 2 million people, many of whom are starving, sick, and in desperate conditions," Lazzarini said on X.
An Israeli government spokesman said no limit had been imposed on aid entering Gaza, with 47 aid trucks entering northern Gaza on Sunday alone.
Israeli statistics reviewed by Reuters last week showed that aid shipments allowed into Gaza in October remained at their lowest levels since October 2023.
Earlier on Monday, Israel's foreign ministry said it had officially notified the United Nations it was cancelling the agreement that regulated its relations with UNRWA since 1967 - effectively banning it - as it seeks the help of other U.N. agencies in getting aid to Gaza.
"Restricting humanitarian access and at the same time dismantling UNRWA will add an additional layer of suffering to already unspeakable suffering," Lazzarini said.
The U.N. said in August that nine UNRWA staff may have been involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel and had been fired. Later, a Hamas commander in Lebanon - killed in an Israeli strike - was found to have had an UNRWA job.
© Thomson Reuters 2024.
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sakurasuki
Next occupier's target let Gaza die in starvation.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/4/israel-notifies-un-of-ending-ties-with-unrwa-amid-warning-of-famine-in-gaza
callbsout
Nothing new with disgusting Zionist state.
Aly Rustom
Well said!
WoodyLee
""Israel's military says it makes efforts to minimize harm to Gaza's civilians as its troops battle Palestinian militants who use shelters and hospitals to stage attacks against its forces. Hamas denies this.""
If this is what Israel calls Minimum Harm to Civilians I can't even imagine what will is IsraHel do if wasn't Minimum!?
The saddest part is that the world is watching these killing unfold and may be it's the feeling of being Shocked and or Disgusted just can't stop this madness.
When this is all over these Gaza kids will remember and will carry on with their struggle for Freedom and Independence, NOTHING will change and hasn't foe the past 75 years.
Fos
WoodyLee
The saddest part is that what we call a democracy, United States of America, is providing millions of dollars every day in lethal weapons to the IDF army, to support this massacre in Gaza and Lebanon
NB
The root cause for the disaster in the Middle East is the genocidal agenda that Hamas, Lebanon and the Mullahs regime of Iran strive and act to implement to Israel. While acting to commit genocide against another nation since 1948, these entities present themselves as victims. Indeed, they bring a disaster to their own nations by acting to annihilate the tiny Israel, ever since 1948.
WoodyLee
Watched a documentary on YouTube few days ago about Israel / the PLO in Lebanon war back in 1982, Nothing changed at all, except that Israel was able to reach and surround the capital Beirut in 3 days, the same tactics were used by the IDF back then that we see these days Total Destruction of all structures in its path, civilians crushed by tanks, building leveled with people inside.
At the end the PLO decided to leave the Refugee Camps and the city center escorted by guess who? NATO troops of course.
Then the Israeli army under the leadership of Defense M. A. Sharon with his allies entered the Palestinians Refugees Camps Sabra and Shatila at dawn now that it's PLO fighters and guards are gone and Massacred Palestinians and Shias civilians, it was Revenge Killing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre
NB
The massacre in Sabra and Shatila was not perpetrated by the IDF.
NB
The Palestinian leader Arafat and the Israeli Prime Minister Barak met in Camp David in the year 2000 under the auspieces of the POTUS Bill Clinton. It was oferred that the Palestinians will get back 96% of the West Bank and 4% of Israel in return for peace. Arfat said No. Soon afterwards he launched a savage campaign of terror.
NB
Hamas launched a large scale masscre on October 7 2034 in order to thwart the Saudi effort to resolve the Middle East conflict.
wallace
Back to the future.
NB
Sorry, I meant 2023.
stormcrow
Israel is hoping Trump wins.
If trump does win, just imagine how much worse Israel is going to be.
dutch
Its unimaginable. It could mean the end for Hamas and Hezbollah, and we don't want that.
Zaphod
According to the Gaza "health ministry", aka Hamas, the IDF only ever kills civilians, never ever any Hamas terrorists. Does that make sense?
NOMINATION
There are many Japan articles and this is in the "World" section. I don't understand the issue.
Fos
Nomination
The issue is pretty simple: Japan main ally, United Stated of America, based on Sipri database, was producing and selling weapons to the tune of 906 billions dollars in 2023 (just imagine in 2024), supplying Eastern Europe, to likes of Israel, and now the Asian continent (Japan, Taiwan South Korea). The US financial markets are on all time high and the 5 top arms manufacturers in the world are all American. Does it make sense now?
https://www.sipri.org/visualizations/2023/sipri-top-100-arms-producing-and-military-services-companies-world-2022
Fos
Zaphod
Then most of the children, the few months old babies in Gaza, and the women (mothers and teenagers, girls or boys ) must be considered terrorists based on your evaluation, as opposed to the Hamas health ministry. This is the point we reached now to save the interests of somebody that it is better not to name, I'd imagine. Right?
NB
The full responsibility for the horrors in the Middle East, and for the much more severe horrors that are going to come, are those who reject the principle of coexistence of all nations in the region and the equitable fulfillment of the rights of these nations, those who peddle genocide while portraying themselves as victims at the same time.
Daniel Neagari
Isreal politicians and some elites... learing the wrong lesson from 80 years ago....
Fos
NB
That is correct. All those Israeli settlers taking Palestinian territories in the West Bank, Golan Heighs, Gaza, and now Souther Lebanon, disrespecting the UN resolutions for over 70 years, did indeed refuse to follow the principles of co-existence. The conflict between these two factions did not start on the eve of 7th of October 20223.
Fos
*2023
NB
The most significant crossroad was in 1947-1948, when the moderate Palestinians wanted to live together with the Jews, but the extremists, who had the upper hand, rejected the UNGA resolution and launched a disastrous war.
RichardPearce
What an innocuous way of talking about a campaign of killing civilians of one ethnicity with the goal of getting rid of that ethnicity.
RichardPearce
Read the PCHRGaza reports.
Read the UNIFIL reports.
Read the Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B'Tselem reports.
They ALL contain the forbidden words, the unmentioned history, the things we are supposed to ignore and forget about when it comes to the place that all used to be Palestine.
NB
No ethnicity should get rid of the other. There is enough room for both nations. We need a sane leadership who seeks peace, rehabilitation, development and prosperity.
dutch
Before Hamas slaughtered and raped 1400 men women and children on 10/7, 150000 Palestinians entered Israel every day with work visas. 20000 from Gaza Strip.
That number is still in the 10's of thousands.
Joe Biden whisper "Someone tell the Israelis they are doing ethnic cleansing wrong..."
There are 3000 year-old coins littered all over Israel.
"Palestine" is as old as my Exile on Main Street LP...
RichardPearce
While NB and I agree that no ethnicity should be trying to erase another (I look forward to their post condemning the post presently between ours) and the need for sane leadership, I remember when the supporters of the White State in South Africa talked about there 'being room enough', ignoring that the majority of the legal population of the territory claimed by it were deemed to belong in that 'other' place, and the 'reasonable' solution included that other place always being subject to being insecure because overall control would rest in the WSISA.
So there's a BIG disagreement on what sane leadership looks like, and which side is in desperate need of some.
dutch
Thats quite the word salad.
I can sum up the whole situation much more succinctly;
FAFO.
Hamas FA'd. Now they're finding out.
NB
RichardPearce,
Israel is not South Africa - Absolutely NOT. The tiny Israel, although ought to be a refuge for Jews and for Judaism, is also a Jewish-Arabic partnership. They are intermixing in all sectors of the civil life, economy and culture. The Arab state of Palestine should be established next to Israel. When sanity prevails, everything will gradually become fully normal. The two nations can live in paradise together, but the current situation of animosity is hard and dangerous.
RichardPearce
NB, the ICSPCA applies just as much to the situation of the the Jewish State In Palestine as it did to the White State in South Africa.
Hafrada is in full swing, with very limited and regulated contact between Israeli Jews and 'Israeli Arabs'. That the few 'Israeli Arabs' who overcome the multiple hurdles to become a member of the Kneset need bodyguards INSIDE the government buildings because of attacks on them puts paid to your contention of a Jewish-Arabic partnership and mixing.
Again, your claims echo the claims of those who wanted to preserve the race based legal inequity, social inequity, financial inequity that were the core of the White State in South Africa's system of oppression.
Perhaps you should take the time to read the B'Tselem reports, Haaretz etc.
RichardPearce
PS, no condemnation of the posts between ours betray where you actually stand.