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At least 60 people were killed in Gaza after Israeli air raids

Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP)-at least 60 people were killed by GAZA by Israeli strikes over a period of 24 hours, the Gaza Ministry of Health announced on Friday when Israel advanced its military offensive and brought minimal help for the strip.

The dead included 10 people in the southern city of Khan Younis, four in the central town of Deir Al-Balah and nine in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north, according to the hospitals of Nasser, Al-Aqsa and Al-Ahli, in which the corpses were brought.

Israel faces the increasing offensive and the pressure to help in Gaza in a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. According to the United Nations, the strip has been under an Israeli blockade for almost three months. Experts have warned that many of the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza have a high risk of hunger.

Even the United States, a convinced ally, have expressed concerns about the hunger crisis.

The strikes, which lasted until Friday morning, came a day after Israeli tanks and drones had attacked a hospital in the north of Gaza, the fire caused inflamed and extensive damage, the Palestinian hospital officers announced on Thursday. Videos that were recorded by a health officer at Al-Awda Hospital show walls that are blown away, and thick black smoke that worldwide.

Israel said that Hamas would continue to beat until all 58 Israeli hostages are released – less than half of them that are assumed that they are alive, according to Israel and until Hamas designed.

Suspect about murder for deaths in Washington's deaths in Washington

The strikes come a day after two employees of the Israeli embassy were shot when he had left a reception for young diplomats at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC. The suspect told the police that he “did it” for Palestine, according to the court documents submitted on Thursday when he was charged with murder. He didn't enter a plea.

On Thursday evening, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu terribly described the murders in Washington and blew France, Great Britain and Canada because he suggested founding a Palestinian state.

“Because by issuing their demand, full of sanctions against Israel – against Israel, not against Hamas – these three leaders effectively said that they want Hamas to stay in power,” he said.

At the beginning of this week, the three leaders published one of the most important criticisms through close allies of Israel's dealings with the war in Gaza and his actions in the West Bank, which took the “concrete measures” if the government did not stop their renewed military offensive and increased humanitarian aid significantly.

Help begins to get in, but agencies say nothing better than enough

Israel began to help in the middle of the pressure. Israeli officials said on Friday that they had more than 100 trucks with the help, including flour, food, medical devices and drugs. The trucks came through the Kerem Shalom Crossing.

However, the UN agencies say that the amount is absolutely inadequate, compared to around 600 trucks a day that occurred during a recent ceasefire and have to meet the basic needs. UN agencies say that Israeli military restrictions and the collapse of law and order in Gaza make it difficult to call up and distribute the help. As a result, little of this has reached the needy.

The World Food Program said on Friday that 15 of its trucks were looted in southern Gaza on Thursday evening, while they went to WFP-supported bakeries.

It is said that hunger and despair of whether the food was introduced contributed to increasing uncertainty, and asked Israel to penetrate larger food faster and more efficiently.

Israel says that the help is now to close the gap until a US initiative starts soon. A group that is known as Gaza Humanitrian Foundation will take over the distribution of aids in Gaza and armed private contractors would guard the distribution. According to Israel, the system is needed because the Hamas takes out considerable relief supplies. The United Nations deny this claim.

On Friday, an Advocacy Group based in Geneva announced that it had taken legal steps to urge the Swiss authorities to monitor the foundation.

Trial International, which focuses on the international judiciary, said that it has made legal submissions to ensure that the privately managed foundation, which is listed in the Commercial Registry Geneva, is adhered to Swiss law, in particular on the activities of private security groups.

The humanitarian foundation in Gaza did not immediately answer the request for comments.

No movement in ceasefire negotiations in Doha

At the beginning of this week, Netanyahu said that he remembered his high -ranking negotiation team from the Qatarian capital Doha after a week of the ceasefire talks did not achieve any results. A work team will remain.

The Qatarian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said that a “basic gap” remained between the two parties and that none of the suggestions was able to make their differences.

Hamas said that no real ceasefire talks have taken place in Doha since last week. The group accused Netanyahu of “incorrectly presenting participation” and tried to mislead “global public opinion” by keeping Israel's delegation there without being seriously negotiated.

The war in Gaza began when the militants of South Salel, led by Hamas, attacked around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and kidnapped 251 others. The militants still hold 58 prisoners, which is assumed that around a third is alive after most of the rest of the rest have been returned to ceasefire agreements or other deals.

According to Gaza, Israel's retaliation measures, which have destroyed large parts of Gaza Strip, killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children.

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