Israel intensifies Gaza City attacks as UN warns over displacement

Residents say that the Israeli forces are intensifying their attacks on the outskirts of Gaza City, while the military places preparations for the ground attack.

Hospitals said that women and children among more than 30 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday, most of them in the north and west.

The Israeli Army Chief of Staff pledged to “continue to hit the heavy centers in Hamas until he was defeated” and his hostages were liberated.

The United Nations and relief groups said that the Israeli operations had already had “horrific humanitarian consequences” for the displaced families in the city, which include one million people and where the famine was announced last month.

Meanwhile, the Israeli demonstrators participated in what they called a “day of turmoil” to pressure their government to agree immediately on a deal that would end the war in exchange for the launch of all 48 Israeli hostages in Gaza, 20 of whom are believed to be alive.

Hospital officials said that Israeli strikes and fire through the Gaza Strip have killed at least 46 people since midnight.

The Shiva Hospital in Gaza City said that it had received the bodies of 21 people, including five people, when an Israeli war plane targeted an apartment in the western hunter area.

His grandmother said that one of the strikes killed the parents and two sisters from Ibrahim, the three -year -old.

Umm Abu Abi Jabin Reuters told Reuters news agency that she had found him buried under the rubble of a devastating column at home where the displaced family of the nearby Gabalia town was protected.

“He is the only one that God saved … we woke up to the boy screaming,” she said.

The first respondents said that Israeli drones also dropped incendiary bombs in the vicinity of a clinic overnight in the northern Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, where forces and tanks are advancing.

The videos posted on social media overnight appeared to a fire next to an ambulance inside the Cheikh Radwan Clinic complex, and another ambulance ignited on a nearby street.

Residents also told Reuters that the Israeli forces dropped hand grenades on three schools in Sheikh Radwan used as shelters for displaced families, putting burning tents, and detonating armored vehicles loaded with explosives to destroy homes in the east of the neighborhood.

“Sheikh Radwan is burned upside down. The occupation [Israel] “The destroyed houses, burned tents and drones have played voice messages asking people to leave the area,” said Ziakia Sami, a 60 -year -old mother, a 60 -year -old mother.

The Israeli army said it was verifying the reports.

During a visit to Gaza on Wednesday, the Chief of Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Ayal Zamir, said the forces: “We entered the second stage of” Gideon “vehicles to achieve the goals of the war.”

“The return of our hostages is an ethical and national task alike. We will continue to hit the heavy centers in Hamas until they are defeated.”

Hamas denounced what he called “systematic destruction operations” by the Israeli forces in Gaza City, saying that they constitute an “unprecedented violation” of international law.

The United Nations agencies and their humanitarian partners in the Gaza Gaza group in Gaza said that the announcement of intensive Israeli military operations in Gaza City on August 7 was “horrific human consequences for people in displacement sites, and many of them were displaced from northern Gaza [governorate]Which includes Gabalia.

They warned that many families are unable to move due to high costs and logistical challenges, as well as lack of a safe space. They said that forcing hundreds of thousands to move in the south may reach forced transport under international law.

Since August 14, more than 82,000 people have been recently displaced, according to the group. Most people moved towards the crowded coast. Only a third remains to the south of Gaza, and the Israeli army has issued instructions.

The army told them to go to the Maousy area, saying that medical care, water and food will be provided. However, the United Nations has tents camps there is crowded and unsafe, and that southern hospitals are working several times their ability.

On Tuesday, five children were killed while they were in water in a tent camp in Al -Malasi. Witnesses said they were injured to enter an Israeli plane.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel’s intention to conquer both Gaza after indirect talks with Hamas in the ceasefire and a hostage in July.

The hostages families fear that the attack will lead to the danger of those detained in Gaza City and want the Prime Minister to negotiate instead on an agreement that would secure their release.

Regional brokers made a proposal that would witness 10 live hostages and 18 dead bodies, which were issued during a 60 -day truce. However, Netanyahu said that he would only accept a comprehensive deal that all of them would see it liberated.

On Wednesday, the Israelis are calling for an immediate deal on tires, garbage boxes and damaged cars in Jerusalem.

Thirteen was arrested after they ascended on the roof of the National Library and offered a banner saying: “He gave up and killed you too.”

Some of the hostages of the hostages addressed a large crowd near the Prime Minister’s residence.

Among them are Offir Braslavski, Rom Braslavski’s father, 21, Who was seen and wounded in a video sent by the kidnappers of Islamic jihad in early August.

He said, “My son Rum dies and is starving and tortured. You can see in his eyes that he no longer wants to live. There is nothing more difficult that the father can witness when he cannot do anything.”

“How can a month after the release of my son’s video, horror appears there, the government leaves him there? The Prime Minister wants to overcome more lands? I cannot understand that.”

“He told Hamas to repeat all the twenty hostages (not 2, 5 or 7!), And things will change quickly. It will end!”

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others took hostage.

At least 63,746 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region.

The ministry also says that 367 people have so far passed through the war as a result of malnutrition and hunger, including six hours over the past 24 hours.