The Israeli army began a limited break in Fighting in three populated areas of Gaza For 10 hours a day as part of a series of steps which, according to him, would give the United Nations and other assistance agencies to secure the land routes to fight against a crisis of in -depth hunger.
Israeli defense forces said it would start a “tactical break” in Gaza City, Deir al-Balah and Muwasi, three areas of the territory with large populations, to “increase the scale of humanitarian aid” entering the Gaza Strip. He said the break would start every day at 10 a.m., the local time, from Sunday and continue until further notice.
“Whatever way we choose, we will have to continue to allow the entry of minimum humanitarian supplies,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement.
The army early Sunday Performed ADROPS HOSE IN Gazawhich included help packages with flour, sugar and canned food, “as part of continuous efforts to allow and facilitate the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip”, the FDI published on Telegram.
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Food experts have warned for months of the risk of famine in Gaza, where Israel has restricted aid because it says that Hamas Siphons outside the goods to strengthen its rule, without providing evidence for this complaint. Images emerging from Gaza in recent days of emaciated children have attracted the world criticism of Israel, including nearby allies, who called at the end of the war and the humanitarian disaster that it generated.
The United Nations food agency praised the steps to facilitate aid restrictions, but said that a wider cease-fire was necessary to ensure that the goods have reached everyone in need in Gaza.
“The welcome to welcome humanitarian breaks in Gaza to allow our help,” said UN chief Tom Fletcher X. “In contact with our teams in the field who will do our best to reach as many hungry people as possible in this window.”
The Ministry of Health managed by Hamas in Gaza said on Sunday that hospitals had recorded six new deaths due to malnutrition in the past 24 hours, including two children. The organization said that at least 133 people, including 87 children, died of malnutrition in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel said the new measures was held when she continued her offensive against Hamas in other regions. Before the break, Palestinian health officials of Gaza said that at least 27 Palestinians had been killed in distinct attacks.
“This (humanitarian) truce will not mean anything if it does not turn into a real opportunity to save lives,” said Dr. Muneer al-Boursh, director general of the Ministry of Health of Hamas in Gaza, who called for a flood of medical supplies and other goods to help treat the malnutrition of children. “Each delay is measured by another funeral.”
The envoys of international aid went to Gaza
The trucks loaded with help from Egypt and Jordan are heading for Gaza in the middle of the “tactical break” of Israel. The Egyptian red crescent sent more than 100 trucks carrying more than 1,200 tonnes of food supplies, including 840 tonnes of flour and 450 tonnes of assorted food baskets, towards the Kerem Shalom crossing.
The Gaza photographers captured the first images of trucks carrying an aid in the Gaza Strip through the border crossing of Rafah to Rafah, Egypt.
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Jordan’s security agency has published a video on social networks allegedly showing a range of trucks responsible for helping towards Gaza.
The United Nations World Food Global Program said that it will host Israel’s decision and that it has enough food to feed all 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza for almost three months. In a statement, he said that a third of the Gaza population was not eating for days and that almost half a million held for famine type conditions.
He said he hoped that Israel’s insurance for secure corridors “would increase the food aid necessary to reach hungry people without further delay.” However, WFP reiterated that a ceasefire is “the only way for humanitarian aid to reach the entire civilian population in Gaza with critical food supplies in a coherent, predictable, orderly and safe manner”.
Israel’s decision to order a pause located in the fighting came a few days after ceasefire efforts between Israel and Hamas seemed to be in doubt. On Friday, Israel and the United States recalled their negotiation teams, smoking Hamas and Israel said it was considering “alternative options” for ceasefire discussions with the militant group.
Israel says he is ready to end the war if Hamas goes, disarms and comes into exile, which the group refused to accept.
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The senior Hamas official, Mahmoud Merdawi, said that Israel’s change in the adequacy of the humanitarian crisis was recognizing that there were hungry Palestinians in Gaza and that this decision was supposed to improve its international position and not save life.
He said that Israel “will not escape punishment and will inevitably pay the price of these criminal practices”.
At least 27 Palestinians were killed in last strikes, say health officials
The AWDA hospital in Nuseirat said the Israeli forces had killed at least 11 people and injured 101 while they were heading for a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Aid distribution site in the Gaza center. The GHF, which denies its participation in one of the violence near its sites, immediately responded to a request for comments. The army said it was examining the report.
Elsewhere, a strike struck a tent housing a family moved to the Asdaa region, northwest of the southern city of Khan Younis, killing at least nine people, according to Nasser Hospital. The dead included a father and two children, as well as another father and his son, said the hospital.
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In Gaza City, a strike struck an apartment on Saturday evening in the west side of the city, killing four people, two women, said the ambulance and the emergency service of the Ministry of Health. In Deir-Al-Balah on Sunday, a strike on a tent near a desalination plant killed a couple and another woman, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital.
The Israeli army has made no immediate comments on strikes. However, he usually blames Hamas for civilian victims, saying that the Palestinian militant group operates in populated areas.
The army announced Sunday that two other soldiers had been killed in Gaza, bearing the total number of soldiers killed since October 7, 2023 to 898.
The war began with the October 2023 attack in Hamas against southern Israel, when activists killed 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and took 251 hostages. Hamas still has 50 hostages, more than half of them believed dead.
Israel’s reprisal offensive killed more than 59,700 Palestinians, according to the Ministry of Health managed by Gaza.
The Israeli army intercepted a assistance ship linked to Gaza seeking to break the Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory, holding 21 international activists and journalists and grabbing all cargoes, including baby formula, food and medicine, Freedom Flotilla Coalition said on Sunday.
The coalition that exploits the Handala ship declared that the Israeli army “violently intercepts the ship in international waters about 40 sea kilometers from Gaza, cutting cameras and communication, just before midnight on Saturday.
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“All the freight was non -military, civilian and intended for direct distribution for a population faced with deliberate famine and with the medical collapse under the illegal blockade of Israel, ” the group said in a statement.
The Israeli army had no immediate comments. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel posted on X early Sunday that the navy arrested the ship and brought it back to the ground.
It was the second ship operated by the coalition that Israel has prevented Aid to Gaza in recent months, where food experts have warned for months of famine. Activist Greta Thunberg was one of the 12 activists on board the Madleen ship When the Israeli army seized it in June.