Israel intensifies attacks in Gaza and beats the ports in Yemen, while Trump ends the trip to the region

Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) -Srael started dozens of air raids in North and South Gaza on Friday, killed more than 93 people and wounded hundreds of attacks, the Israeli civil servants who were described as a prelude to a larger military campaign in the area.

Also on Friday, Israel met two ports in Yemen, of which the Houthi Militant Group would be transferred weapons.

The strikes in the Gaza followed days of similar attacks in which, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health, more than 130 people were killed, and came as US President Donald Trump has a visit to Gulf States – but not Israel.

There was widespread hopes that his trip to the region could increase the likelihood of an armistice or the resumption of humanitarian aid for Gaza, which has prevented Israel for more than two months.

When Trump spoke to reporters in Abu Dhabi on the last day of his trip, he said to solve a number of global crises, including Gaza. “We look at Gaza,” he said. “And we have to take care of it. A lot of people are starving. Many people are – there are many bad things.”

In southern Gaza, Israel met the city of Deir al-Balah and the city of Khan Younis. It said it hit Put tank rocket posts and military structures.

In the north of Gaza, the attacks gave people who fled the Jabaliya refugee camp and the city of Beit Lahiya. Israel said that several militants had removed that operated in an observation connection.

Dark smoke rose over Jabaliya when people grabbed what they could get from their belongings and fled against donkey cars with a car and foot.

“We came out of the house with difficulties, killing and death, we didn't take anything,” said Feisal Al-Attar, who was sold by Beit Lahiya.

There were no direct reports on victims after the strikes against Yemen. The Houthis satellite canal recognized the attacks, but did not provide any further details.

The military of Israel said that during Trump's journey it intercepted several rockets that were fired from Yemen towards Israeli airspace.

Netanyahu swears to strengthen the war

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used to swore a week to drive a promised escalation of violence in the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip to pursue his goal of destroying the militant group of Hamas, the Gaza rules.

In Comments published on Tuesday by Netanyahus office, The Prime Minister said that the Israeli forces were days from entering the Gaza Strip “with great strength to complete the mission … it means destroying Hamas.”

An Israeli official said that the strikes on Friday were preparatory measures in advance of a larger operation and to send a message to Hamas that he will soon begin if there was no agreement on the publication of the 58 hostages in Gaza since the Hamas' October 2023 attack, which started the war. The official was not entitled to make the media too short and to speak about the condition of anonymity

The same official said that the cabinet members had met on Friday to evaluate the negotiations in Qatar, where Weasfire talks take place and choose the next steps.

The spokesman for the Israeli government, David Mencer, announced The Associated Press on Friday that the military of Israel has intensive, as has stopped publishing hostages since the admission of Hamas. “Our goal is to bring them home and get Hamas to give up power,” he said.

“Historical opportunity”

In Israel, families of hostages said they woke up with “heavy hearts” on Friday about increased attacks and asked Netanyahu to publish hostages with Trump's efforts, to join “Hands”.

Edan Alexander, the Israeli-American Geisel, who was released on Monday after the backdoor US-Hamas diplomacy, left the hospital on Friday, according to his parents, who said that his recovery was far from over.

“To miss this historical opportunity for a deal to bring the hostages home would be a resounding failure to remember in shame forever,” said the families in a explanation published by the Hostage Forum that supports them.

The war began on October 7, 2023, when the militants led by Hamas killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 more during an attack on South Israel. According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, Israel's retaliation measures killed more than 53,000 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 believes that up to 23 are still alive of the hostages that remain in Gaza, although the Israeli authorities have expressed concern about the status of three of them.

The blockade of the Gaza strips occurs for the third month

Dozens of Palestinians in Khan Younis occurred in a charity kitchen to preserve on Friday in a scene that quickly became chaotic when the enclave entered their third month of the auxiliary blockade of Israel.

Several children behind a metal partition screamed and screamed for Essen. At some point the scene relegated to chaos when the kitchen workers had difficulty bringing people back into line with charity organizations.

Some workers were attacked when the crowd pushed forward, pressed against the partition and plunged towards the big ripening pots to grab everything they could. A child used his hand to draw the last travel from the almost empty pot while holding his food container with the other hand.

The blockade of Israel prevents food, fuel medicine and all other deliveries from occurring and worsening a humanitarian crisis. According to Israel, the blockade aims to put Hamas under pressure to publish the hostages that it still holds.

“Our only hope was that Donald Trump's visit to the Middle East would lead to solutions and somehow would bring open crossings into the Gaza strips as quickly as possible, but the visit is almost over and not a drop of water or bread that was in the Gaza Strip,” said Saqer Jamal, a repressed man from Rafah who was in the kitchen in the kitchen.

A new one at the beginning of this week Humanitarian organization The support of US aids has thus given the assumption of aids that it will begin with the operating processes before the end of the month – according to what it describes as important agreements of Israeli civil servants.

In a statement by the group, which the Gaza Humanitrian Foundation described, several US military veterans identified former humanitarian coordinators and security entrepreneurs, of which they said they would lead to delivery.

Many in the humanitarian community, including the United Nations, said that the system did not correspond to the humanitarian principles and was not able to meet the needs of the Palestinians in Gaza and not take part.

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Moue reported by Beirut. Associated Press Writers Tia Goldenberg and Sam Mednick in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.

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