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Family mourns the boy who was killed by the Israeli strike when he was looking for bread

Doaa al-Asouri kisses her dead son's blood-soaked head and tears flock over her face.

“Forgive me, my love that you haven't fed,” shouts Al-Asouri, 36, in front of the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis in Gazas. “I wanted to feed you.”

She caresses the hair of 10-year-old Ashraf Wafi on Tuesday, the moment the NBC News crew was captured in the Gaza Strip on site. Later before the funeral, Father Mahmoud kisses his son's feet, the white light towel with bright red blood.

Ashraf's family said NBC News that he was on the mission to get bread from his aunt when an Israeli bomb killed the boy. Just a few hours earlier, Israel announced that it would end an almost three -month blockade and to allow medicine and other important supplies to enclave after a blockage of almost three months.

Relatives mourn when they are preparing to bury 10-year-old Ashraf Wafi after being killed in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, Gaza on Tuesday. NBC News
Ashraf Wafi's family mourns when they prepare to bury the 10-year-old.
Ashraf Wafi's family mourns when they prepare to bury the 10-year-old. NBC News

A spokesman for the office of the Israeli military of the coordinator of government activities in the [Palestinian] Territories (cogat) announced NBC News that a total of 93 trucks with humanitarian aid had been left into the enclave via the southern Kerem Shalom crossing. A handful of trucks with baby food were left in the enclave on Monday.

The United Nations and Humanitarian groups said from Tuesday evening that no help had been distributed. NBC News teams on site also have no evidence that the help has been distributed.

Claire Manera, an emergency coordinator of Médecins without Frontières or doctors without limits, said on Wednesday that auxiliary groups also “receive strictness about where the help should go and how to get there”.

“It is not certain for us to deliver it that way, and it is not sure that people will receive it as the Israeli authorities insist,” she said in an interview with the “Today” program from BBC Radio 4.

Ashraf Wafi's family said he went out to get bread from his aunt on a desperate search for food.
Ashraf Wafi's family said he went out to get bread from his aunt on a desperate search for food. NBC News

The Israeli armed forces have strengthened their military attack on the Gaza Strip in the past few days, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Monday to take over the “full control” of the entire enclave.

The military started its offensive after the attacks on October 7, 2023 led by the Hamas, in which around 1,200 people were killed and around 250 as hostages, according to Israeli officials and marked a large escalation in a conflict of decades.

But Netanyahu and his government are faced with more than 53,400 people, including thousands of children, before the start and abroad, in which more than 53,400 people have been killed since the beginning of the war, including thousands of children.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced on Wednesday that he believed that Israel's actions in Gaza were “very close to a war crime” that a criminal offense group had accused Israel of being committed throughout the war.

Last year, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and its former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged crimes against the crimes of humanity and war. Israel continues to be assertion of the genocide of his actions in Gaza in a case submitted before the International Court of Justice.

The Palestinians have difficulty donating food in a shared kitchen
Palestinians in a joint kitchen in Jabalia, Nordgaza on Monday.Jehad Alshrafi / AP

Olmert's comments came to Yair Golan, a left -wing opposition voice and the former deputy chief of staff of the Israeli army, and accused his own country of having killed “babies as a pastime”.

In addition, Great Britain kept the free trade talks with Israel, called on his ambassador and announced further sanctions against settlers in West Bank on Tuesday, after Prime Minister Keir Parmamer said that he was horrified by the military escalation in Gaza.

After the United Kingdom of France and Canada had threatened “concrete measures” against Israel on Monday and called the handful of auxiliary aid, which could be “completely inappropriate” on the same day after an eleven -week blockade.

In a joint explanation, the leaders of the countries said that they would go so far as to impose “targeted sanctions” if dramatically not allowed more help to enter the Gaza.

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