Airstrikes and shooting kill at least 38 people in Gaza as calls for ceasefire grow

Israeli strikes and gunshots killed at least 38 people in Gaza, health officials said. International pressure for a ceasefire increases, but the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remained provocative On the continuation of the war during a speech at the United Nations on Friday afternoon.

The covers in the center and northern Gaza killed people at home in the early hours of Saturday morning, including nine from the same family in a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to health staff at Al-Awda hospital, where the bodies were brought.

The attacks occurred a few hours after Netanyahu told his compatriots United Nations General Assembly Friday that his nation “must finish the work” against Hamas in Gaza.

The words of Netanyahu, aimed as much to his domestic audience increasingly divided as the world world, came after dozens of delegates from several nations left the room of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday morning while he was starting to speak.

International pressure on Israel to put an end to war increases, as is Isolation of Israel, with a growing list of countries that recently decide to recognize the Palestinian state – Something Israel rejects.

Countries have pressure on US President Donald Trump to press Israel for a ceasefire. Trump on Friday, Trump told journalists on the lawn of the White House that he thought that the United States was about to conclude an agreement on the softening of the fighting in Gaza which will recover the hostages “and” will end the war “.

Trump and Netanyahu are expected to meet on Monday, and Trump said on social media on Friday that “very inspired and productive discussions” and “intense negotiations” on Gaza continue with countries in the region.

Israel goes forward with another major operation on the ground in Gaza CityWhat experts say live in famine. More than 300,000 people have fled, but up to 700,000 are still there, many because they cannot afford to move.

The strikes have demolished a house in the Tufah district of Gaza City, killing at least 11 people, more than half of them, according to the Al-Ahly hospital, where the bodies were brought. According to Shifa Hospital, four other people were killed when an air strike hit their homes in the SHATI refugee camp.

Six other Palestinians were killed by Israeli shots when they asked for help in the south and center of Gaza, according to Nasser and Al Awda hospitals, where the bodies were brought.

The army of Israel did not immediately respond on air strikes or shots.

Gaza City’s hospitals and health clinics are on the verge of collapse. Almost two weeks after the offensive, two clinics were destroyed by air strikes, two hospitals were closed after being damaged and others are barely operating, with medicines, equipment, food and short -term fuel.

Many patients and staff members have been forced to flee hospitals, leaving only a few doctors and nurses to take care of the children of incubators or other patients who are too sick to move.

On Friday, the doctors of the Borders Without Aid Group said that it was forced to suspend activities in Gaza City in the middle of an intensified Israeli offensive. The group said that Israeli tanks were within half a thousand of its health establishments and that increasing attacks have created an “unacceptable level of risk” for its staff.

Meanwhile, the food situation in the North has also worsened, because Israel has interrupted aid deliveries thanks to its passage in the north of Gaza since September 12 and has increasingly rejected UN requests to make supplies from the south of Gaza in the north, said the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs.

The Israel campaign in Gaza killed more than 65,000 people and injured more than 167,000 others, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. He does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but says that women and children represent about half of the deaths. The ministry is part of the government managed by Hamas, but the United Nations agencies and many independent experts consider that its figures are the most reliable estimate of victims in wartime.

Israel’s campaign was launched when Hamas terrorists stormed Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. Forty-eight captives remain in Gaza, around 20 of them believed that by Israel is aliveAfter most of the others have been released in ceasements or other transactions.