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Hamas has urged the United Nations and the wider planetary assemblage to intervene instantly to halt Israel’s genocide successful Gaza, arsenic the Israeli service escalated its brutal assaults connected Gaza City and elsewhere successful the enclave.
At slightest 73 Palestinians, including respective assistance seekers, were killed successful relentless Israeli bombardments crossed Gaza connected Wednesday, among them 43 successful Gaza City alone.
Entire families are being killed unneurotic successful their tents and shelters arsenic the Israeli forces are targeting densely populated areas successful Gaza.
“My member was killed, struck wrong his room. They killed him with his woman and children; they erased them all. No 1 is left,” Sabreen al-Mabhuh, a displaced Palestinian, told Al Jazeera.
Israeli grenades person besides ignited tents astatine schools sheltering displaced families successful Sheikh Radwan, Reuters reported. “Sheikh Radwan is being burned upside-down,” nonmigratory Zakeya Sami said. “If the takeover of Gaza City isn’t stopped, we mightiness die. We won’t forgive anyone who watches this and does nothing.”
Gaza’s media bureau says Israel has detonated astatine slightest 100 explosive-laden robots successful Gaza City implicit the past 3 weeks to destruct full residential blocks and neighbourhoods. About 1,100 Palestinians person been killed successful Gaza City unsocial during Israel’s battle determination since August 13.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, described the concern arsenic apocalyptic. “It feels endless and all-consuming … full neighbourhoods are being erased artifact by block,” helium said. “People are losing everything they’ve built implicit decades. For many, this feels similar a surviving nightmare.”
Hamas acceptable to judge a broad ceasefire
In a connection connected Wednesday, Hamas reiterated its readiness to judge a broad Gaza ceasefire and merchandise of each Israeli captives successful speech for Palestinian prisoners. The group’s remarks travel soon aft United States President Donald Trump called connected Hamas to merchandise the captives inactive held successful Gaza. About 48 captives are believed to beryllium inactive successful Gaza, 20 of whom are believed to beryllium alive.
Hamas slammed Israel for committing “horrific warfare crimes” with a onslaught connected the al-Jarisi household location successful bluish Gaza City, which killed astatine slightest 10, calling it portion of a systematic run to destruct Palestinian life.
The telephone came arsenic Gaza’s Health Ministry reported six much deaths from “famine and malnutrition” successful the past 24 hours, including a child. It said 367 Palestinians, 131 of them children, person died from hunger-related causes during Israel’s blockade, which continues to severely bounds the introduction of nutrient and aid.
The Israeli cognition to prehend Gaza City volition apt displace 1 cardinal Palestinians, with astir of the enclave’s 2.3 cardinal radical displaced aggregate times. A spokesperson for UN main Antonio Guterres connected Wednesday said that much than 82,000 caller cases of forced displacement were recorded successful Gaza betwixt August 14 and 31, including 30,000 radical forced from northbound to south.
UNICEF has warned that 132,000 children nether 5 are astatine hazard of dying from acute malnutrition by mid-2026, adding up to implicit 320,000 Palestinian children facing terrible hunger. “With famine astatine hazard of spreading, children urgently request a wide influx of humanitarian assistance – including specialised nutrition products,” the bureau said connected X.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification confirmed successful August that famine conditions had gripped bluish Gaza and were rapidly spreading south. Aid workers accidental the full Israeli blockade has turned basal endurance into a regular struggle.
Abdullah Al-Arian, an subordinate prof astatine Georgetown University successful Qatar, said Israel’s scorched-earth violative shows it is waging genocide with “total impunity”. He noted that Palestinians are refusing evacuation orders owed to exhaustion from repeated displacements and the lack of harmless zones, which Israeli forces person systematically bombed.
Growing planetary outrage
Israel has rejected Hamas’s latest connection to extremity the Gaza war. In a statement, the Prime Minister’s Office reiterated Israel’s stance that “the warfare tin extremity instantly connected the conditions acceptable by the cabinet”, which see the merchandise of each the Israeli captives being held successful Gaza and the disarmament of Hamas.
Hamas has agreed to ceasefire proposals presented by the mediators, but it has refused to disarm until the Palestinian authorities is established arsenic portion of the alleged two-state solution. Qatar, which has mediated successful the conflict, said that Israel has yet to agree to its latest ceasefire proposal, which was accepted by Hamas past month.
Israel’s run is drafting mounting planetary backlash. Several European countries, including France, Britain, Belgium, Canada and Australia, are expected to formally recognise a Palestinian authorities astatine the upcoming UN General Assembly aboriginal this month.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez slammed Europe’s effect to the warfare connected Wednesday arsenic a “failure” that has damaged its credibility. “We can’t past longer if we privation to beryllium taken earnestly connected crises similar Ukraine,” helium said. Sanchez was the archetypal European person to picture Israel’s actions successful Gaza arsenic a genocide.
In Scotland, First Minister John Swinney announced his authorities volition artifact backing to arms companies supplying Israel. “We volition intermission caller awards of nationalist wealth to arms companies whose products are linked to countries committing genocide. That volition see Israel,” helium said, urging London to suspend its commercialized statement with Israel.
The UAE besides issued a stark warning, saying Israel’s imaginable annexation of the occupied West Bank would transverse a “red line” and undermine the Abraham Accords. “Our presumption has not changed since 2020: We enactment a Palestinian state,” said Lana Nusseibeh, a elder UAE diplomat.
This came arsenic Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich unveiled a program for Israel to annex astir each of the occupied West Bank, urging Prime Minister Netanyahu to endorse it.
Meanwhile, Utrecht University successful the Netherlands announced an world boycott of Israeli institutions implicit “genocidal policies” successful Gaza. Rector Wilco Hazeleger said the determination reflects a motivation obligation. “We volition not commencement caller collaborations with Israeli parties. A boycott is successful spot until further notice,” helium said.
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