Israel’s relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip has hit areas it had informed Palestinians to evacuate to within the territory’s south.
The strikes got here a day after the USA vetoed a United Nations decision demanding an instantaneous humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, regardless of its vast assist.
Gaza residents “are being informed to maneuver like human pinballs – ricocheting between ever-smaller slivers of the south, with none of the fundamentals for survival,” Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres informed 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 mentioned 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 develop into routine over the previous two months of battle.
Within the southern metropolis of Khan Younis, which has been the main focus of Israel’s army operations over the previous week, the Nasser Hospital acquired the our bodies of 62 folks, the ministry mentioned.
Greater than 2,200 Palestinians have been killed for the reason that December 1 collapse of a weeklong truce, about two-thirds of them ladies and kids.
With the battle now in its third month, the loss of life toll in Gaza has surpassed 17,700.