Israel’s relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip has hit areas it had instructed Palestinians to evacuate to within the territory’s south.
The strikes got here a day after the US vetoed a United Nations decision demanding an instantaneous humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, regardless of its extensive help.
Gaza residents “are being told to move like human pinballs – ricocheting between ever-smaller slivers of the south, without any of the basics for survival,” Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres instructed the UN Safety Council earlier than Friday’s vote.
Two hospitals in central and southern Gaza acquired 133 our bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli bombings over the previous 24 hours, well being ministry officers in Gaza stated on Saturday.
Dozens of individuals held funeral prayers within the hospital’s courtyard earlier than taking the our bodies for burial – a scene that has turn out to be routine over the previous two months of battle.
Within the southern metropolis of Khan Younis, which has been the main focus of Israel’s navy operations over the previous week, the Nasser Hospital acquired the our bodies of 62 individuals, the ministry stated.
Greater than 2,200 Palestinians have been killed for the reason that December 1 collapse of a weeklong truce, about two-thirds of them girls and youngsters.
With the battle now in its third month, the demise toll in Gaza has surpassed 17,700.
