At the least 9 individuals killed in assault on support distribution automobile, in accordance with Palestinian media.
At the least 9 individuals have been killed and plenty of others had been wounded in an Israeli strike on an support distribution truck in Deir el-Balah, the Wafa information company experiences.
A witness who didn’t give his identify informed Al Jazeera that he was on his method to a water nicely on Sunday when the realm was “showered with missiles, shrapnel flying round, physique components within the air”.
“This truck was carrying reduction support, with civilian volunteers on board. They had been carrying meals objects to displaced Gaza individuals. It’s alleged that Deir el-Balah is a protected zone,” he stated.
There was no fast remark from the Israeli army.
‘Horrific bloodbath’
In a while Sunday, Gaza’s Well being Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra stated there have been “dozens” of casualties in a “horrific bloodbath” of aid-seekers close to the Kuwaiti roundabout on Salah al-Din Avenue in southern Gaza Metropolis.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Rafah stated: “Plainly the Israeli army is correct now concentrating on people who find themselves ready desperately for meals, for something, to outlive”.
There was no fast remark from the Israeli army.
Kids die from malnutrition and dehydration
The assaults got here as Gaza’s Well being Ministry stated not less than 15 kids have died up to now few days from malnutrition and dehydration on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza Metropolis.
The United Nations kids’s company, UNICEF, warned that many extra kids in Gaza will die of dehydration and malnutrition except there may be direct intervention to make sure support.
“Now, the kid deaths we feared are right here and are prone to quickly enhance except the conflict ends and obstacles to humanitarian reduction are instantly resolved,” Adele Khodr, UNICEF’s regional director for MENA, wrote in a press release.
Greater than 30,400 individuals, principally ladies and youngsters, have been killed in Israel’s conflict on Gaza since October 7, in accordance with Palestinian authorities.
Israel launched its devastating bombardment and floor invasion of the besieged territory after Hamas, which governs Gaza, led an assault on Israel, killing not less than 1,139 individuals, in accordance with an Al Jazeera tally primarily based on official Israeli figures, and seizing about 250 others as captives.
Hamas in Cairo for talks
Negotiations over a potential truce between Israel and Hamas resumed on Sunday, after a United States official indicated that Israel had endorsed a framework for a short lived ceasefire and trade of Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas officers arrived in Cairo on Sunday however Israeli media reported that Israel didn’t ship a delegation for the talks, mediated by envoys from Qatar, Egypt and the US.
A senior Hamas official informed Al Jazeera that its delegation was in Cairo “to satisfy with the Egyptian and Qatari brothers and to current the motion’s imaginative and prescient. Whether or not or not the occupation delegation arrives in Cairo doesn’t concern us,” he stated.
One supply briefed on the talks informed the Reuters information company a day earlier that Israel may avoid Cairo except Hamas first offered the record of captives.
A Palestinian supply informed the company that Hamas had up to now rejected that demand.
A US official had earlier stated Israel had agreed to the framework for a truce deal up for dialogue in Cairo.
“There’s a framework deal. The Israelis have roughly accepted it,” a senior US official within the administration of President Joe Biden stated on Saturday.