At least 50 Palestinians killed as Israeli air strikes pound Gaza
The Israeli regime has ramped up its brutal aggression on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours as the occupying entity deliberately keeps undermining negotiations for a ceasefire plan aimed at ending the months-long genocidal war in the besieged territory.
The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it had carried out over two dozen strikes in 24 hours and bombarded different sites in various areas across Gaza with artillery and rockets.
The military said the occupation forces were also “continuing precise, intelligence-based operational activity” around the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 52 people, most of them women and children, had been killed in Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours.
Local media reports said the Israeli military targeted with rockets east of the city of Dayr al-Balah, while helicopters kept firing at the north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The Gaza Civil Defense said 30 people had been killed in three strikes in Nuseirat, with one hitting a United Nations-run school, another on a house and a third on a mosque.
The Israeli artillery also shelled the eastern areas of al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of the Gaza City, Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in the southwest and al-Shakoush area, northwest of the city of Rafah, in the south of the Strip.
The medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, confirmed that medical teams in Gaza are exposed to “unbearable pressure” with every Israeli attack amid a depleted health system.
The organization stressed that hospitals in Gaza lack all the basic basics, which will lead to the death of more citizens.
“This is a brutal and shameful act that is a scar on humanity,” the Palestinian resistance movement said.
The latest round of Israeli onslaught comes as hopes fade for a US-proposed ceasefire plan, with Ismail Haniyeh, chief of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, saying Tel Aviv is undermining talks for a truce and prisoners release deal as the regime does not want to end the war.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has since October last year vowed to destroy Hamas, insisted on Tuesday that despite the pressure Israel was facing, there could be no let-up in Tel Aviv’s aggression on the Gaza Strip until it achieved its objectives.
“This is exactly the time to increase the pressure even more, to bring home all the hostages — the living and the dead — and to achieve all the war objectives,” Netanyahu said.
Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023 after Hamas-led Palestinian resistance groups waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
Since then, the United States has supplied the Tel Aviv regime with more than 10,000 tons of military equipment and used its veto power against all United Nations Security Council resolutions that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The Tel Aviv regime has killed 38,794 Palestinians and injured over 89,000 others since the start of the offensive. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.
