Israeli air raids in Gaza Stripes kill 70 people, including 22 children, say health officials

Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP)-Israeli air raids combed the northern and southern Gaza on Wednesday and killed at least 70 people, including almost two dozen children “Under no circumstances” he would stop Israel's offensive In the Palestinian area before the Hamas is defeated.

At least 50 people, including 22 children, were killed in the north of Gaza for Jabaliya alone, according to the hospitals and the Gaza Ministry of Health.

The strikes came afterwards Hamas released an Israeli-American hostage on MondayA gesture that some believed to lay the basis for an armistice and, as US President Donald Trump, visited Saudi Arabia during a trip to the Golfänder.

Israel's military refused to comment on the strikes. It warned the residents of Jabaliya to evacuate late Tuesday, citing the militant infrastructure in the region, including rocket advertisers.

In Jabaliya, rescue workers shattered by collapsed concrete slabs with hand tools that were illuminated by the light of the mobile phones to remove the body of children.

Israel threatens to escalate operations in Gaza

In Comments published on Tuesday by Netanyahus office, The Prime Minister said that the Israeli forces were removed from a promised violent and would enter the Gaza for days, “with great strength to complete the mission … it means destroying Hamas.”

There had been widespread hope that Trump's visit to the Middle East Could usher in an armistice or renewal of humanitarian aid in Gaza strips. An Israeli blockade of the territory is now in the third month.

The war began when the militants led by Hamas killed 1,200 people in a penetration of 2023 in South Israel. According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, Israel's retaliation measures killed over 52,928 Palestinians, many of them women and children, which does not say how many fighters were. Almost 3,000 have been killed since then Israel broke a ceasefire on March 18. The Ministry said.

Israel's offensive has exhausted Swade of the urban landscape of Gaza and repressed 90% of the population, often several times.

Israeli media reported that a goal in a strike against a hospital in Khan Younis on Tuesday Mohammed Sinwar, the younger brother of the late Hamas leader, was Yahya Sinwar, Who was Killed by Israeli armed forces last October. The military would also not comment that it was a “Hamas command and control center” that was under the European hospital.

It is believed that Mohammed Sinwar is the top military leader of Hamas in Gaza. Israel has tried several times in recent decades to murder him.

A senior health officer in Gaza said on Wednesday that due to the strike, the ambulances were no longer able to achieve the hospital, which also forced the institution to suspend surgical operations.

Dr. Marwan al-Hams, General Director of Field Hospitals in the Gaza Ministry of Health, said that the strike had severely damaged the hospital water and wastewater systems and his courtyard. He added that the Israeli military met a Bulldozer who was brought by the hospital authorities to repair the area so that ambulances can reach the building.

“Until these damage is set, we have to close most of the hospital departments,” he said, adding that he had no information about Israel's goal of the strike.

France condemns the Israeli auxiliary blockade

International nutritional security experts warned warned Early this week This gaza will probably fall into famine if Israel does not raise His blockade and stop his military campaign.

Are almost half a million Palestinians possible hunger While 1 million others can hardly get enough food, according to the knowledge of the integrated classification of the nutritional security phase, it says a leading international authority for the severity of hunger crises.

French President Emmanuel Macron expressly condemned Netanyahu's decision to block help as a “shame” that caused a great humanitarian crisis.

“I say it violently what the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is doing today is unacceptable,” said Macron on Tuesday evening on national TF1 television. “There is no medicine. We cannot get the wounded out. Doctors cannot get in.”

Macron, who visited Palestinians in Egypt last month, called for the reopening of the border to the Gaza Strip to humanitarian convoys. “Then we have to fight to demilitarize Hamas, to free the hostages and to build a political solution,” he said.

Netanyahu replied that Macron “repeated the wrong propaganda of an extremist militant organization.

The population of around 2.3 million people relies almost exclusively on foreign assistance to survive. The 19 -month -old military campaign of Israel extinguished the greatest capacity to produce food in the territory. The markets are empty of most articles, and the prices for what remains have shot up.

Blockades force charity kitchens to close

The United Nations say that the number of meals that offer charity kitchens in Gaza has dropped to around 260,000 under Israel's blockade after more than 1 million a day at the end of April.

Charity kitchens are the last lifeline for most of the Gazas population, but they are closed quickly because the supplies go out. In the first two weeks in May, at least 112 kitchens – more than 60% of the total number – the UN Humanitarian office announced on Wednesday. Only 68 kitchens are still working.

The World Health Organization announced that it only has enough stocks to treat 500 children with acute malnutrition, a fraction of the need. In the past few weeks, malnutrition has been diagnosed in thousands of children.

According to Israel, the blockade aims to put Hamas under pressure, publish and disarm the remaining hostages. The Israeli officials have claimed that after an offer of help in the last two -month ceasefire, there is enough food in the area.

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Lidman reported Tel Aviv, Israel. The Associated Press Writer Fatma Khaled and Lee Keath contributed from Cairo and Sylvie Corbet from Paris.