Blinken has arrived in Israel to try to bring truce negotiations to fruition, while the number of Palestinians killed by Israel has already reached 40,000 since last October.
The Israeli army attacked the north, centre and south of the Palestinian enclave of Gaza early Sunday morning, causing around twenty deaths, including several children, in the bombing of homes, according to Palestinian sources.
At least four Palestinians were killed in the Northern Jabalia Campcreated by the UN in 1948 to house displaced Palestinians, after Israeli planes bombed two apartments, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, adding that rescue teams were still searching for victims among the rubble.
Seven other people, including three childrenhave died early in an attack by Israeli fighter planes on a residential tower in the Nuseirat refugee camp (center), Al Jazeera reported.
In addition, the two Palestinians killed on Saturday in an Israeli drone attack on their vehicle in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, were Hamas leadersthe Israeli Army and the armed wing of the Islamist group, the Al Qassam Brigades, reported late yesterday.
For 317 consecutive days, and already exceeding the 40,000 Palestinians killed, Israel continues its offensive in the Gaza Strip, ignoring the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered it to avoid genocide in its military offensive.
In addition, at least 10,000 Palestinians are missing, presumed dead under the rubble, and more than 92,500 are injured. In total, nearly two million people across the Gaza Strip have been forcibly displaced with nowhere safe to flee.
Polio, hospital closures and humanitarian crisis awaiting the truce
Gaza woke up this past Saturday with the confirmation that polio is circulating in the enclave, new evacuation orders and the news of the imminent cessation of activity of one of the few hospitals still functioning, while the ceasefire negotiations continue with the hopes of the international community and the exchange of reproaches between Israel and Hamas.
Late on Friday night, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah, West Bank, reported the first case of polio in Gaza, which had been polio-free for 25 years.
“It affects a 10 month old child “who was not vaccinated,” the Ministry of Health announced, confirming the fears of the World Health Organization (WHO), which had been warning of a possible outbreak for a month, when it announced the discovery of the virus in environmental samples taken in the Strip.
Palestinian authorities have blamed the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip for the outbreak, which has made access and distribution of cleaning and hygiene products difficult and has forced people to live in crowded areas amid waste and contaminated water.
The humanitarian crisis caused by the lack of access to basic resources also extends to access to fuel, which hinders the work of hospitals throughout the enclave, with only 16 of the 36 in the Strip functioning partially.
There are only three in the north of the enclave, and one of them, the Al Awda in Yabalia, fears it will have to stop its surgical activity tomorrow due to a lack of access to electricity, its acting director, Mohammed Salha, warned this afternoon.
Meanwhile, Anthony Blinkenthe top US diplomat, arrived in Israel tonight to continue his country’s “intense diplomatic efforts” as a mediator in the negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The Doha summit, which Hamas did not attend because it is demanding compliance with the original US draft, will be followed by meetings in Cairo next week to discuss Joe Biden’s latest proposal, which aims to bring Israel and the Islamists closer together.
The parties clash over Israel’s demand to maintain a military presence in the Philadelphia corridor – the border between Gaza and Egypt – to prevent arms smuggling, and in the Nitzarim corridor – which separates the north and south of the Strip – in order to prevent militants from accessing the northern part of the enclave, which Hamas categorically rejects.
Source: Eitb
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