Palestinian rescuers said an Israeli strike at dawn on Monday killed 13 people in a school in the city of Gaza, while Israel advances with what has described as a renewed impulse to destroy Hamas.
The intensified struggle, after a blockade of humanitarian supplies of almost three months, has a strong international condemnation of Israel.
The world leaders who are in Madrid on the weekend asked for the end of the “inhuman” and “meaningless” war, while humanitarian organizations said that the dripping of resumption help is not enough to sign hunger and health crises.
In the city of Gaza, rescuers said on Monday that “13 martyrs and 21 were recovered within the Fahmi Al-Jawi school in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, after the Israeli occupation forces attacked him at dawn.”
The previous day, Israeli attacks killed 22 people and wounded boxes more throughout the Palestinian territory, said Civil Defense Agency Mahmud Bassal.
Israel has expanded its offensive in the territory, activating tens of thousands or reservists, since it points to “the defeat of Hamas”.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, whose administration has strongly supported Israel in his campaign, said Sunday that he wanted to “see if we can stop all that situation as quickly as possible.”
On the same day, as European and Arab nations meet to seek the end of the conflict, Spain’s Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, asked Israel to arms.
He also called humanitarian aid to enter Gaza “massively, without conditions and without limits, and not controlled by Israel”, describing the territory as the “open wound” of humanity.
– ‘Hunger, despair’ –
The weekend, Gaza rescuers were struggling to recover bodies from the debris after a series of Israeli attacks.
In a house in Jabalia, in the north, seven people were killed and several other trapped under debris, according to the Bassal Civil Defense spokesman.
“The civil defense does not have heavy search equipment to lift the debris to rescue the injured and recover the martyrs,” he said.
Two more people, including a woman who had seven months of pregnancy, were killed in an attack aimed at tents that took refuge from displaced people around Nuseirat in downtown Gaza, said, adding that doctors could not save the unborn child.
The director of Civil Defense, Ashraf Abu Nar and his wife, according to Bassal, were also included in the toll.
Fatal strikes were also recorded around Deir El-Balah in the center of the territory, Beit Lahia in the north and the main southern city of Khan Yunis.
Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency said on Saturday that an Israeli strike in the southern city of Khan Yunis killed nine children from a couple of married doctors, and the Israeli army said he was reviewing the reports.
Israel recently the partial days has facilitated a blockade that was imposed on March 2 and exacerbated a generalized shortage of food and medicine in Gaza.
Cogat, the agency of the Israeli Ministry of Defense that coordinates civil issues in the Palestinian territories, said that “107 trucks belonging to the UN and the international community with humanitarian aid … were transferred” to Gaza on Sunday.
But critics accuse that this is not close enough, especially when many of the help trucks end up being looted.
The World Food Program has asked Israel “to get much greater volumes of food assistance to Gaza faster”, saying: “hunger, despair and anxiety about whether more food aid is approaching is contributing to the growing insecurity.”
– Help of the controversy –
The head of a controversial group backed by the United States who prepares to transfer the aid to the Gaza Strip also announced his abrupt resignation on Sunday.
In a statement from the Humanitarian Foundation Gaza (GHF), executive director Jake Wood said he felt forced to leave after the end that the organization could not fulfill its mission in a way that adhered to the “humanitarian principles.”
The Foundation has promised to distribute around 300 million meals in its first 90 days of operation.
But the United Nations and traditional aid agencies have already said that they do not cooperate with the group, amid accusations that they are working with Israel.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said Sunday that at least 3,785 people had been killed in the territory since a high fire collapsed on March 18, which brought the general cost of the war to 53,939, mostly civilians.
Hamas’s attack in October 2023 against Israel that triggered the war resulted in the death of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP account based on official figures.
The militants also took 251 hostages, 57 or that they remain in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli army says they are dead.
