The convoy was targeted as civilians were evacuating through the Salah Aldin Street in Al Zeytoun neighbourhood, says Gaza-based Interior Ministry’s spokesman.
Thousands of Palestinians attempted to flee to southern Gaza in search of refuge after Israel called for over a million of them to evacuate the north of the blockaded enclave before an expected ground offensive. / Photo: APAt least 70 Palestinians were killed and 200 others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a convoy of displaced civilians heading from northern Gaza to south, according to the Gaza-based Palestinian Interior Ministry.
Some 370 women were among those killed in the seven days of air strikes, the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said.Saudi Arabia denounced the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza and attacks on"defenceless civilians", its strongest language criticising Israel since the war broke out. Netanyahu spoke only hours after the Israeli military revealed that troops had carried out localised raids inside the besieged Palestinian territory over the past 24 hours as a prelude to an anticipated ground invasion.The World Health Organisation said that a mass evacuation of northern Gaza would be"disastrous" for hospital patients, with hospitals in the south already at full capacity.
In response to a question by Reuters' UN reporter about the killing of her colleague, Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said:"All our deepest condolences to you and all of your colleagues at Reuters. “Any demonstrative behaviour or expression of opinion that can be understood as advocating or approving the attacks against Israel or supporting the terrorist organizations that carry them out, such as Hamas or Hezbollah, represents a threat to school peace in the current situation and is prohibited,” Education Senator Katharina Guenther-Wuensch said in a letter to schools.
“According to humanitarian organizations on the ground, there are not enough resources to host so many IDPs in other governorates – not enough shelter, aid or water,’’ the statement said.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel to avoid civilian deaths in Gaza, stepping up the tone after he backed reprisals against Hamas.
In an interview with Anadolu, Ahmed Benchemsi, advocacy and communications director for HRW's Middle East and North Africa division, said the Israeli government was punishing the entire population after a surprise attack by Palestinian group Hamas. “A missile was launched from Gaza towards the northern region of the country,” the Israeli army said in a statement.The massive Hamas operation on Israel cannot justify the"limitless destruction" of Gaza, the Red Cross said, as it called for pauses in the fighting.
One of the security sources said the shelling followed an infiltration attempt from the Lebanese side of the border, while the Israeli army said it was responding to a blast that caused"light damage" to the border barrier.Spain’s deputy prime minister Yolanda Diaz called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to avoid “a massacre” in Palestine's Gaza.
Israel should allow humanitarian aid into Gaza through Egypt's Rafah crossing, the Turkish president has said. Israel is now about to do something that is"comparable to the siege of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War," Putin told journalists in Kyrgyzstan.1359 GMT — Israeli military denies allegation it's using white phosphorus in Gaza
"What we are doing is calling for international humanitarian law to be respected while recognising Israel's legitimate right to defence," Ignazio Cassis told a news briefing in response to a question about a possible ground invasion of Gaza.Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is set to touch down in Cairo for the first time since Türkiye and Egypt mended their diplomatic rift.
"We are investigating what appears to be the use of white phosphorus in Gaza, including in a strike near a hotel on the beach in Gaza City," the rights group said in a statement. The appeal by the Arab League Secretary-General Ahmad Aboul Gheit to Guterres comes following the Israeli army’s demand to relocate the entire population from Gaza and its northern parts towards the south of Gaza.
He will head later Friday to Qatar and then Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, before heading in the coming days to the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, officials said. More than 1,300 people have been killed in Israel since Hamas unleashed a massive operation from the blockaded Gaza, the army said, raising an earlier toll by 100.
Russia has been carrying out what Moscow calls a military operation in Ukraine since February 2022, during which thousands of civilians are estimated to have died after strikes hit numerous residential areas across the country. "Evacuate your homes immediately and go south of Wadi Gaza," read flyers dropped by drones and seen by the AFP news agency.The message signed by the Israeli military ordered residents to"evacuate public shelters in Gaza City".At least 258 Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting against Palestinian fighters since Hamas attacked Israel, the army has said.
The statement came amid Israeli reports saying the Israeli army is ready to launch a ground offensive in Gaza and is awaiting approval at the political level. Dujarric said the order by the Israeli military also applied to all UN staff and those sheltered in UN facilities, including schools, health centres and clinics.A prominent civilian member of Hamas has defended the group's strike on Israel in a video released by the group and decried the civilian killings in besieged Gaza from the seven days of Israeli air strikes that have followed.
Although Tehran has been a long-term backer of Hamas, Iranian officials have been adamant that the country had no involvement in Saturday's blitzkrieg against its arch enemy Israel. "The continuation of war crimes against Palestine and Gaza will receive a response from the rest of the axis. And naturally, the Zionist entity and its supporters will be responsible for the consequences of that," Amirabdollahian said.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military bombarded a residential building in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing at least 45 people and wounding dozens more, Gaza's Interior Ministry said as fighting reached its seventh day.
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