Israel stressed its war to crush Hamas on Sunday, nearly a month after the worst attack in the country’s history as the Palestinian group said an attack on a central Gaza refugee camp and a water store killed more than 38 people. .

Fighting continues in densely populated Gaza, despite calls for a ceasefire from Arab countries and frustrated civilians after 30 days of war.

However, unwilling to consider a ceasefire, Israel issued fresh evacuation notices on Sunday urging Gazans to move north amid continued bombardment.

More than 9,488 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, mostly women, children and the elderly, as Israel continued a month of relentless airstrikes, bombings and an escalating ground campaign since October 7, when Hamas launched a surprise attack. In which 1,400 Israelis were killed. Killed 240 and took 240 captive.

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Since then Israel has bombed the besieged Gaza Strip every day, targeting hospitals, refugee camps, residential areas and aid centers under the guise of ‘destroying’ Hamas.

The Israeli military said on Sunday that since Israel sent troops into the narrow Palestinian enclave late last month, “more than 2,500 terror targets have been attacked” by “ground, air and naval forces”.

In a statement, it said ground troops were engaged in “close combat” as Israeli jets attacked targets including a “Hamas military compound” at an undisclosed location overnight.

Salama Maarouf, head of the Palestinian government’s media office, said that the latest attack in Gaza has been reported reuters At least 38 Palestinians were killed and 100 injured in an Israeli attack in Maghazi. The Palestinian News Agency had earlier reported 51 deaths.

Maroof said an unknown number of people were missing and rescue workers were trying to search for them under the debris of destroyed homes. AFP An eyewitness was quoted as saying that children were also among the dead and houses were also damaged.

During this, Gaza time Bombing reported on a water reservoir in the northern Gaza Strip.

“An Israeli airstrike targeted my neighbors’ house in al-Maghazi camp, the house next to mine partially collapsed,” said Mohammed Alaloul, a 37-year-old journalist who works for Turkey. Anadolu Agency,

Alaloul told AFP that her 13-year-old son Ahmed and her four-year-old son Qais were killed in the bombing along with his brother. His wife, mother and two other children were injured.

A military spokesman said they were investigating whether their forces were operating in the area at the time of the bombing.

Israeli officials claim that more than 240 Israelis and foreigners were taken captive by Hamas during the October 7 attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected offers of a ceasefire unless Hamas releases them all.

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Hamas spokespersons have informed that some prisoners have also been killed in Israel’s indiscriminate air strikes.

Since Israel began its ground offensive, Hamas has resisted attempts by Israeli forces to capture further territory.

Israel said on Thursday it had struck 12,000 targets in Gaza during the war, one of the deadliest bombing campaigns in recent memory.

Hamas said in a statement posted on Telegram that Israel had “directly” bombed civilian homes, and said most of the dead were women and children.

Concern on the West Bank

Increasing violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has raised concerns that the Palestinian territories could become a third front in a broader war – in addition to Israel’s northern border, where clashes with Lebanese Hezbollah forces have escalated.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, “This is a serious problem that has worsened since the conflict.” He said he had raised it in his meetings with Israeli officials on Friday. “Criminals must be held accountable.”

This year has been the deadliest for West Bank residents in at least 15 years, with nearly 200 Palestinians and 26 Israelis killed, according to UN data. 121 West Bank Palestinians have been killed since the war in Gaza began.

UN data shows daily attacks by Israeli settlers have more than doubled, although most deaths have occurred during clashes with Israeli troops.

besieging Gaza city

Israel last month ordered all civilians to leave the northern part of the Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, and move to the south of the enclave.

Israeli forces have since surrounded Gaza’s largest city and are fighting fierce street battles with Hamas militants.

Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets on Gaza City ordering people to move south via Salah al-Din Road between 10am and 2pm (0800-1200 GMT) on Sunday.

“The time has come, the State of Israel asks you to protect your lives and evacuate your homes from fighting areas,” the statement said. “Seize the opportunity and immediately exit Salah al-Din Road.”

Traffic will be allowed on Salah Al-Din Street from 10 am to 2 pm on Sunday [08:00 GMT to 12:00 GMT]the army said on its Arabic X account.

US special envoy David Satterfield said in Amman on Saturday that 800,000 to one million people have fled to the south of the Gaza Strip, while 350,000 to 400,000 remain in and around Gaza City.

Living conditions in Gaza, which were already dire before the fighting, have worsened. Food is scarce, residents have resorted to drinking salt water and medical services are at a standstill.

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The United Nations humanitarian office OCHA estimates that about 1.5 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are internally displaced.

Demand for ceasefire is increasing

Israel’s attack and siege have raised global concern over humanitarian conditions in the narrow coastal region.

As the war enters its fifth week, Blinken is set to continue his Middle East tour on Sunday with a visit to Turkey, where Ankara has criticized Israel and its Western backers as the death toll in Gaza rises. Has hardened his voice against.

The foreign ministers of Qatar, Saudi, Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Amman on Saturday to pressure Washington to persuade Israel to agree to a ceasefire.

Blinken faced a growing wave of anger at meetings with Arab foreign ministers in Jordan on Saturday, where he called for a “humanitarian pause” to ensure aid to desperate civilians, a day after Netanyahu gave brief consideration to the idea. Confirmed US support.

“This war is going to create more pain for the Palestinians, for the Israelis, and it is going to push us all back into the abyss of hatred and dehumanization,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said at a news conference with Blinken. “So this needs to stop.”

However, the top US diplomat rejected the idea of ​​a ceasefire, saying it would only benefit Hamas, giving the fighting group a chance to regroup and attack again.

Washington had proposed a localized pause in the fighting to allow humanitarian aid and people to leave the densely populated Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected it during his meeting with Blinken in Tel Aviv on Friday.

Speaking in Shanghai, Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Mokhbar called the Israeli action a “war crime”, adding, “We need to end it immediately and provide more humanitarian aid to Gaza.”

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, whose country is acting as the only channel for foreigners to escape and get into the Gaza Strip, called for an “immediate and comprehensive ceasefire.”

Thousands of protesters on Saturday called for a ceasefire as they marched on the US capital in solidarity with the Palestinians, one of several similar rallies held from Indonesia to Iran as well as in European cities.

Pro-Palestinian protesters protested in cities including London, Berlin, Paris, Istanbul, Jakarta and Washington on Saturday, demanding a ceasefire.

Thousands gathered in Washington to condemn President Joe Biden’s war policies and demand a ceasefire. Some people held posters reading “Palestinian lives matter”, “Let Gaza live” and “Their blood is on your hands”.

In Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told thousands gathered in Jakarta on Sunday that the government reaffirms its support for the struggle of the Palestinian people and will send a second batch of aid.

Hamas said late Saturday that the evacuation of dual citizens and foreigners from Gaza was being suspended until Israel allows some injured Palestinians access to Rafah so they can cross the border to receive hospital treatment in Egypt.

A senior White House official said Hamas had tried to use the US-brokered deal to open the border with Egypt to expel its cadres.

“This was absolutely unacceptable for Egypt, for us and for Israel,” the official said.

Palestinian ally Turkey said on Saturday it was recalling its ambassador to Israel and cutting contacts with Netanyahu in protest at the bloodshed in Gaza.

Turkey was repairing broken ties with Israel until the Israel-Hamas war broke out last month.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters that he held Netanyahu personally responsible for the increasing civilian deaths in Gaza.

“Netanyahu is no longer someone we can talk to. We have rejected him,” Turkish media quoted Erdogan as saying.

Blinken is scheduled to visit Turkey on Monday for talks on the conflict, his second visit to the region since the reigniting of the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Hayat said the move was “another step by the Turkish President in favor of the Hamas terrorist organization”.

Meanwhile, Indian Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, ex, wrote on Twitter, “It is appalling and shameful beyond words that nearly 10,000 civilians, of whom nearly 5000 are children, have been massacred, entire families wiped out.” Hospitals and ambulances have been destroyed.” They were bombed, refugee camps targeted and yet the so-called leaders of the “free” world continued to finance and support genocide in Palestine.

“A ceasefire is the smallest step that must be implemented immediately by the international community otherwise it will have no moral authority,” he said.

However, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party-led (BJP) government has remained steadfast in its support for Israel.

In Israel’s north, cross-border firing broke out on Saturday between the army and Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah movement, with each claiming to have attacked the other’s positions along the border.

The clashes came a day after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned that a war between Israel and Hamas could draw other forces into the regional conflict.

Blinken spoke in Amman on Saturday with his counterparts from Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, all key players in the crisis.

In his conversation with the US top diplomat, Jordan’s King Abdullah II underlined that “the only way to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is to work across the political horizon to achieve a just and comprehensive peace based on a two-state solution “.

The US administration has said it also supports a Palestinian state alongside Israel, but Netanyahu’s hard-right government strongly opposes it.