Nine of the 10 children of a doctor are killed in the latest strikes of Israel in the Gaza

CAIRO – The corpses of 79 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals for the last 24 hours, said the Gaza Ministry of Health on Saturday – a tribute that does not include hospitals in the beaten north that it is now not accessible.

The dead last day in the renewed military offensive of Israel were nine of the ten children of a doctor, said disposed colleagues and the Ministry of Health.

Alaa Najjar, a pediatrician in the Nasser Hospital, was on duty at that time and ran home to find her family's house on fire, Ahmad Al-Farra, head of the Pediatric Department of the Hospital, told The Associated Press.

Najjar's husband was seriously wounded and her only surviving child, an 11-year-old son, was in a critical condition after the strike on Friday in the southern city of Khan Younis, said Farra.

The dead children ranged at the age of seven months to 12 years. Khalil al-Docran, a spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health, told the AP that two of the children had remained under the rubble.

There was no immediate comment on the military of Israel in the strike. After an explanation on Saturday, a statement stated that the Air Force of Israel had over 100 destinations in the entire Gaza strip last day.

The Ministry of Health said the new deaths brought the tribute of war to 53.901 since the attack on October 7, 2023 led by Hamas, in which the 19 months of the fight were triggered. The Ministry said that 3,747 people were killed in Gaza since Israel resumed the war on March 18 to put Hamas under pressure to accept different ceasefire conditions.

Israel's pressure on Hamas has been a blockade of Gaza and over 2 million people since the beginning of March. This week the first small number of auxiliary cars entered the area and has reached the Palestinians since the blockade began. But they were far less than the approximately 600 trucks a day that occurred during the ceasefire.

Warnings of famine by experts in nutritional security and images of desperate Palestinians, which were made up of dining shells in the ever difficult number of charity kitchens, caused the ally of Israel to urge the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to enable help to return.

The Netanyahu government has applied for a new aid and sales system through a newly established US group, but the United Nations and Partners rejected it and explained that Israel starts food as a weapon and violates humanitarian principles.

Israel can now change his approach to leave the auxiliary groups responsible for non-food support, as can be seen from a letter received from AP. Israel accuses Hamas to skim off, but the UN and Auxiliary groups deny that there is a significant distraction.

The attack on October 7 on South Israel, who triggered the war, killed around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and militants kidnapped 251 more. According to the Ministry of Health, Israel's retaliation measures, which has destroyed large parts of the Gaza Strip, mainly killed women and children, which in his count does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

Israel said it would continue to strike until Hamas will publish all 58 remaining Israeli hostages and disarmament. It is believed that fewer than half of the hostages in Gaza are still alive.

Hamas has explained that it will only return the remaining hostages in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a permanent ceasefire and an Israeli retreat from the territory. Netanyahu rejected these terms and sworn to keep control of Gaza and to make it easier for him, which he describes as a voluntary emigration of a large part of his Palestinian population.

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