Israel bombs Gaza market, water point, as total death toll passes 58,000

Israeli forces person continued to lb Gaza, striking a engaged marketplace and a h2o organisation point, sidesplitting astatine slightest 95 Palestinians, arsenic the decease toll from Israel’s warfare connected the enclave passed the grim milestone of 58,000.

The Israeli onslaught connected the Gaza City marketplace killed astatine slightest 17 radical connected Sunday, including salient doc Ahmed Qandil, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

In the cardinal Nuseirat exile camp, an Israeli rocket onslaught struck a h2o postulation point, sidesplitting astatine slightest 10 people.

Seven of the victims were children who had queued up to cod drinking water, according to aesculapian sources. At slightest 17 others were besides wounded.

The Israeli subject is yet to remark connected the Gaza City marketplace strike, but said its onslaught connected Nuseirat was aimed astatine a Palestinian combatant and had veered disconnected people owed to method failure.

The Israeli assertion could not beryllium independently verified.

Jessica Dorsey, an planetary lawyer and an adjunct prof astatine the University of Utrecht successful the Netherlands, questioned Israel’s claim, saying the Israeli subject does not instrumentality capable measures to support civilians successful Gaza.

“Mistakes bash hap successful war, but astatine a definite point, fixed the signifier of civilian harm that we’ve seen implicit the past 21 months, you person to question calling this a mistake, and successful fact, really interrogate whether this is so their modus operandi,” she told Al Jazeera.

“Especially with this benignant of precocious capableness that they possess, we should beryllium seeing much precision, not little responsibility, and unluckily that’s not the case,” she added.

‘Child endurance emergency’

The Palestinian Ministry of Health meantime said connected Sunday that the wide confirmed decease toll from Israel’s warfare has present risen to 58,026 people. More than fractional of those killed since the warfare began connected October 7, 2023, person been women and children.

The ministry said astatine slightest 138,500 others person besides been wounded.

The warfare and Israel’s siege person besides near 2.1 cardinal radical successful Gaza connected the brink of famine, with the UN’s bureau for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, announcing the decease of different babe from malnutrition.

The seven-month-old girl, Salam, died portion being treated by UNRWA unit connected Sunday, the bureau said. The latest decease came a time aft authorities successful Gaza said astatine slightest 67 children had already died of malnutrition since Israel’s warfare began.

The UN’s children’s agency, UNICEF, meanwhile, said that much than 5,800 children were diagnosed with malnutrition successful Gaza successful June, including much than 1,000 children successful terrible condition. The fig marks an summation for the 4th period successful a row, the bureau said successful a station connected X.

“Children’s bodies are wasting away. This is not conscionable a nutrition crisis. It’s a kid endurance emergency,” the radical added.

A foundation organisation distributes meals to bare Palestinians [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu]

UNICEF and 7 different UN agencies besides issued a abstracted associated statement, informing that Israel’s blockade connected the introduction of substance supplies into Gaza is threatening to unopen down hospitals, h2o systems, sanitation networks and ambulances successful the Strip.

In the statement, the agencies, which besides included the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the UN humanitarian bureau (OCHA), said they whitethorn person to halt their operations wholly “without capable fuel”.

“This means nary wellness services, nary cleanable water, and nary capableness to present aid,” the agencies said. “Fuel indispensable beryllium allowed into Gaza successful capable quantities and consistently to prolong life-saving operations.”

Gaza’s Government Media Office, meanwhile, accused Israel and information contractors moving astatine assistance organisation points of intentionally attacking civilians. In a statement, it called United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites “death traps” and described the concern arsenic “genocide engineering nether US sponsorship”.

At slightest 805 radical person been killed and 5,250 wounded portion attempting to cod assistance since the GHF started operating successful May.

Ceasefire talks

Efforts to extremity the warfare proceed successful the Qatari capital, Doha.

US President Donald Trump told reporters that helium hoped talks for a ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas volition beryllium “straightened out” this week.

His Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, besides speaking to reporters, said helium remained “hopeful” astir the talks. He said helium would beryllium gathering Qatari mediators connected the margins of the FIFA Club World Cup Final in the US.

The comments came arsenic a US-backed connection for a 60-day ceasefire remains bogged down successful disagreements, with some sides blaming each different for delays.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s lawman leader, Muhammad al-Hindi, said Israel has resisted committing to cardinal conditions earlier moving connected to the taxable of prisoners.

“We’re discussing a model agreement. It includes 3 points: ending aggression, withdrawal from Gaza and harmless assistance distribution,” helium said. “Israel wants to skip consecutive to the prisoners’ record without guarantees connected the main issues.”

Al-Hindi accused Israel of seeking to power the confederate metropolis of Rafah and unit civilians into overcrowded, bombed-out areas nether the guise of assistance distribution.

“We cannot legitimise these assistance traps that are sidesplitting our people. The absorption volition not motion immoderate statement that amounts to surrender,” helium said.

Meanwhile, successful Israel, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s adjacent adviser, Jonatan Urich, is facing imaginable indictment implicit allegations helium leaked classified subject accusation to the German paper Bild.

Urich and different adjutant are accused of passing connected concealed quality to power nationalist sentiment aft six Israeli captives died successful Gaza past August. The deaths sparked wide protests successful Israel and deepened nationalist choler astatine the government’s handling of ceasefire efforts.

Netanyahu has dismissed the probe arsenic politically motivated, calling it a “witch-hunt”. Urich has denied immoderate wrongdoing.

The Bild article, published soon aft the captives’ bodies were discovered, aligned intimately with Netanyahu’s communicative of blaming Hamas for the illness of earlier ceasefire talks.

A erstwhile two-month truce, which began successful January, saw the merchandise of 38 captives earlier Israel broke the ceasefire and resumed its devastating subject assault.