Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza, including civilians looking for help, say health workers

More than 35 people were killed in Israeli strikes and shots since the early hours of Saturday morning, according to hospital sources in Gaza.

A strike on a house in the center of Gaza has made at least 11 people of death – more than half of them women and children – according to officials at the Arabic Al -Ahli hospital in Gaza City.

Health agents said nine members of the same family were one of those who were killed in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp, and at least six people were said to have been killed during the center and southern Gaza.

It comes one day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations that Israel “was to end the work” against Hamas.

The Israeli Air Force says that it has reached around 120 targets through the strip since Friday – including the military said: “The buildings used by terrorist groups, terrorist agents and other infrastructure”.

It is clear that there was no break in the offensive of the extended field of Israel against Hamas, which is now mainly focused on the city of Gaza, where Israel says that it is the last bastion of the armed group.

Hundreds of thousands of residents fled the largest urban center in the territory, where famine was confirmed last month by a body supported by the UN. But hundreds of thousands of others remain in disastrous humanitarian conditions, with health and other essential services that collapse.

“They tell us to go, then come back here … people are in the streets, in the south dispersed everywhere. Where should we go?” said Salwa Subhi Bakr, quoted by AFP.

“What does the world want from us? What does Netanyahu want? What does Hamas want?” She said.

Several members of the Bakr family were killed during a strike on the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, reported the news agency, citing the civil defense agency managed by Hamas.

While international calls to a ceasefire have redoubled – reinforced by multiple new Recognitions of the Palestinian State at the UN this week – Israel remains determined to maintain maximum pressure on Hamas to try to force it to go.

It was again the message of Prime Minister Netanyahu to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday, where many delegates came out in protest as he went on stage.

Donald Trump once again expressed his optimism as to the negotiation of an agreement that would see the hostages released and a new ceasefire in Gaza.

The American president said that his team was about to achieve this goal, because what he called “very inspired and productive discussions” were underway with countries in the region.

Trump’s special envoy in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, says that the United States has developed a new 21-point peace plan for the Middle East and Gaza.

It has not been officially presented, but various media reports presented that of the main provisions.

They would have exceeded the release of all hostages, a large number of Palestinian prisoners and an immediate ceasefire, to include what the time of Israel says would be a way to a future Palestinian state.

But it is something that Netanyahu firmly rejected in her address to the UN.

It has also been reported that the plan would allow the Palestinians to stay in the Gaza Strip, rather than encouraging a lot to leave.

Such arrangements – if they are confirmed – are certainly discussion points when Trump meets Netanyahu on Monday. The optimism of the American leader can receive a verification of reality at this meeting.

The Times of Israel – which says that he had seen a copy of the American proposal – says that it also includes a commitment to Hamas to disarm, as well as the complete demilitarization of Gaza and the establishment of a process to dedicate the population.

It is clear that Hamas and the Israeli government should make greater concessions than they have so far been committed, if the plan as it has been reported so far has a chance of success.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the attack by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, during which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

At least 65,549 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Hamas in the territory.

Foreign journalists were forbidden to enter independently from Gaza since Israel launched its offensive in 2023 after the attacks in Hamas October 7.

With the anniversary of two years of the attack led by Hamas against Israel more than a week, there are many in Israel and Gaza who fervently hope that they will not have to live a third year of war.