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Israeli air strikes kill 23 people in Gaza, while the international outcry is growing over auxiliary blockade

Deir al-Balah, Gaza City (AP)-Israeli air raids overnight and on Saturday at least 23 Palestinians killed in Gaza, including three children and their parents, whose tent was bombed in Gaza city, said health officers.

The bombing continued because international warnings about Israeli plans to control the sales department in Gaza as Israel's blockade in the field of over 2 million people in the third month.

The UN and auxiliary groups rejected Israel's auxiliary distribution movements, including a plan of a group of American security companies, former military officers and humanitarian aid employees, who are called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

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Among the 23 corpses that were brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, the family of the health was said to be the family of five, whose tent was beaten in the Sabra district in Gaza.

Another Israeli strike on Friday met a warehouse of Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in the northern area of ​​Jabaliya. According to the Indonesian hospital, four people were killed in which corpses were taken.

AP video showed fire in the shattered building. The warehouse was empty after being hit and attacked several times last year during the Israeli soil offensives against the Hamas fighters, residents such as Hamza Mohamed said.

The military of Israel said that nine soldiers were slightly wounded by an explosive device on Friday evening, while she was looking for neighborhood in Gaza City in the Shijaiyah neighborhood. It is said that they were evacuated to a hospital in Israel.

Israel resumed his bombing in Gaza on March 18 and shook a two -month ceasefire with Hamas. The floor troops have confiscated more than half of the territory and carried out raids and were looking for parts of the North Gaza and the southernmost city of Rafah. Large parts of both areas were flattened out by months of Israeli operations.

Under the blockade of Israel, charity kitchens are practically the only food source that is left in the Gaza Strip, but dozens have closed in the last few days with the expiry of food supply. Auxiliary groups say that more closures are imminent. Israel said that the blockade should put the Hamas under pressure to release and disarm the remaining hostages. Right groups have described the blockade as “hunger tactics” and a potential war crime.

Israel accuses Hamas and other militants to skim off in Gaza, although it has not submitted any evidence of his claims. The United Nations deny a significant distraction that says that it monitors the distribution.

The 19 -month -old war in the Gaza is the most devastating that has ever fought between Israel and Hamas. There it killed more than 52,800 people, more than half of them wounded women and children and, according to the Ministry of Health, more than 119,000. The ministry's count does not differentiate between civilians and combatants. Israel says that there were thousands of militants without giving evidence.

Israel was swearing to destroy Hamas after October 7, 2023, an attack on South Israel, in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and were kidnapped over 250 others. Hamas still holds about 59 hostages, with around a third still alive.

The Hamas released a video on Saturday, in which hostages Elkana Bohbot and Yosef-Haim Ohana, who performed under compulsion. They were kidnapped by a music festival during the attack on October 7, in which over 300 people were killed. Hamas published a video of you a month ago and published several videos from Bohbot since then alone.

The demonstrators on Saturday evening gathered again in Tel Aviv to demand a ceasefire that would bring all hostages home.

“Can you capture this? The Israeli government is about to answer a military operation that could and will endanger the life of hostages,” said Michel Illouz, father of Geisel Illouz, and referred to the plan to expand the business in Gaza considerably.

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