At least 52 killed in Gaza as Israel escalates attacks on Gaza City

Israel’s defence curate warns that Gaza City volition beryllium destroyed unless Hamas yields to Israel’s presumption for ending the war.

At slightest 52 Palestinians person been killed successful Israeli attacks connected Gaza, aesculapian sources told Al Jazeera, including 36 killed successful Gaza City wherever Israel was escalating attacks successful the lead-up to a broader planned offensive.

An Israeli aerial onslaught deed a schoolhouse successful Sheikh Radwan, a Gaza City neighbourhood wherever tens of Palestinians were seeking structure successful makeshift tents successful the schoolyard. At slightest 12 civilians were killed successful the attack, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said connected Friday.

Footage circulating connected societal media and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking bureau Sanad shows an Israeli quadcopter hovering implicit a gathering successful Sheikh Radwan arsenic neighbours ticker anxiously, earlier it drops an explosive connected its target. The video past cuts to footage of fume rising from the targeted building.

Another idiosyncratic was killed by Israeli forces successful the Tuffah neighbourhood successful Gaza City, a aesculapian root astatine al-Ahli Hospital told Al Jazeera.

Earlier, Israel’s defence curate warned that Gaza’s largest metropolis would beryllium destroyed unless Hamas yielded to Israel’s presumption for ending the war.

“The gates of hellhole volition soon unfastened connected the heads of Hamas’ murderers and rapists successful Gaza – until they hold to Israel’s conditions for ending the war,” Israel Katz wrote successful a station connected X.

Katz restated Israel’s ceasefire demands, which see the merchandise of each captives and Hamas’s implicit disarmament. Hamas has said it would merchandise captives successful speech for ending the war, but rejects disarmament without the instauration of a Palestinian state.

In effect to the latest ceasefire proposal, accepted by Hamas and brokered by Qatar and Egypt, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu connected Thursday said helium had instructed officials “to statesman contiguous negotiations” to merchandise remaining captives and extremity the war.

Yet Netanyahu besides confirmed that helium would authorise the subject to equine a large cognition to prehend Gaza City, which could commencement wrong days.

While galore Israelis fearfulness an battle could doom astir 20 captives deemed to beryllium alive, Netanyahu maintains the violative is the surest mode to escaped captives and execute the warfare nonsubjective of destroying Hamas.

‘Unbearable grief and pain’

Al Jazeera analogous Tareq Abu Azzoum said that portion Gaza City was being pounded particularly hard, Israeli attacks were continuing relentlessly crossed the Gaza Strip.

“It was different deadly nighttime successful Gaza, and this greeting is marked by grief and unbearable pain, intelligibly written connected the faces of victims’ relatives and exigency responders who spent the nighttime rushing to calls crossed the Strip,” Abu Azzoum said, reporting from the cardinal metropolis of Deir el-Balah.

“For Palestinians connected the ground, these subject actions nonstop a wide awesome that nary substance wherever they move, nary country of Gaza is spared from immoderate imaginable Israeli attack.”

An Israeli drone onslaught connected a makeshift structure successful the confederate metropolis of Khan Younis killed 1 pistillate and 4 children, sources astatine the Nasser Medical Complex said.

Another Palestinian was killed and others were injured aft the Israeli service struck the Jabalia al-Balad country of bluish Gaza, according to sources astatine al-Shifa Hospital.

At slightest 52 radical were killed since dawn successful Israeli attacks crossed connected Friday, aesculapian sources told Al Jazeera.

Among those killed were 5 radical who were seeking aid, the sources said. One Palestinian assistance seeker was killed and others were injured successful an Israeli shooting adjacent the Netzarim Corridor successful cardinal Gaza, according to aesculapian sources astatine the bluish Gaza’s al-Awda Hospital.

Since May 27, erstwhile Israel introduced the caller assistance organisation mechanics tally by the arguable United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the Health Ministry estimates astatine slightest 2,036 assistance seekers person been killed.

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