Israeli air strikes hit areas near Gaza City's Shifa and Al-Quds hospitals.
A Palestinian woman reacts at the site of an Israeli strike on a residential building in Gaza City October 25, 2023.Palestinians in northern Gaza reported fierce air and artillery strikes early this morning as Israeli troops backed by tanks pressed into the enclave with a ground assault that drew increased international calls for the protection of civilians.
The reported strikes near hospitals came after the Palestinian Red Crescent said yesterday that it had received warnings from Israeli authorities to immediately evacuate al-Quds hospital, where some 14 000 people have sought shelter. Israel has tightened its blockade and bombarded Gaza since Hamas gunmen stormed across the border into Israel on October 7. Israeli authorities say the militants killed some 1 400 people and took at least 239 hostages.The stepped-up attacks by Israel coincided with a mounting international outcry for a “humanitarian pause” to allow aid in.
US President Joe Biden on Sunday pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a call to protect civilians in Gaza and to “immediately and significantly increase the flow of humanitarian aid” to the besieged coastal enclave, the White House said. Medical authorities in the Gaza Strip, which has a population of 2.3 million people, said yesterday that 8 005 people – including 3 324 minors – had been killed.
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