Israel killed at least 50 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health in Hamaslan. Many of them killed women and children.
The strike targets residential areas such as buildings, mobile locations, makeshift tent camps and police stations, among other locations.
Palestinian health officials say one strike in northern Gaza killed at least 18 people, while the other killed 11 people, including at least one child. Israeli forces said strikes at police stations targeted extremist command centres.
At least seven people have been killed in three strikes at Khan Yunis in the south, including her mother, her two children and another two. The strike in central Gaza killed six people, including two women and two children.
Israel ended the ceasefire with Hamas and renewed the Air Force and the ground war on March 18th. Since the beginning of March, two million Palestinians in Gaza have been blocked from all food and other imports in order to pressure Hamas to release hostages.
The UN Humanitarian Office of the United Nations, OCHA is calling on world leaders to put more pressure on Israel to ensure humanitarian aid and other important supply flows enter the enclave.
In a previous Twitter X post, Ocha said Palestinians are “deprived of the necessities to survive” as they emphasized the urgency of the situation, and that humanitarian aid operations are on the verge of a total collapse with very low levels of medicine and food.
Israel says the Gaza blockade is to prevent Hamas from gaining more supply, strengthening and reorganizing, as Hamas routinely denounces groups of looting aid targeting civilians. Israel also said the move was intended to put pressure on Hamas to release hostages.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces threatened to expand their operations on the strip on Thursday. “If there is no progress in hostage return, we will expand our activities into more intense and important businesses,” said Eyal Zamir, chief of military staff for the Israeli military.
A statement from the military staff said on Thursday that Hamas was “responsible for starting this war” and “the dire situation of Gaza’s population.”
Hamas said he would release only the remaining 59 prisoners in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners, a permanent ceasefire and the complete withdrawal of Israel. Israel vowed to continue bombing Gaza until Hamas was completely destroyed.
