Israeli attacks kill at least 31 as Gaza blockade accelerates starvation | Israeli-Palestinian conflict news

A strike targeting the Alcalama School in Gaza’s Altafa district kills 13 people.

Israeli attacks on Israel have killed at least 31 people as more than two months of blockade of the besieged and bombarded enclave caused acute food shortages and accelerated Palestinian starvation.

The Israeli attacks were scattered throughout Gaza on Wednesday, killing 13 people in a strike targeting Alcalama Schools in Gaza City’s Altafa district.

Also in the north, three more people were killed and several injured in a strike at a Jabaria home.

Eight people were killed. The father, his children and cousins ​​include five people on a strike at a home in Karn Unis city south.

Three more people, including children, have been killed after a tent shelter was attacked at Dale Elbara on the Central Gaza Strip. The wife and husband were also killed when the house was attacked in Bani Suheira village, east of the strip.

The attack comes as Gaza’s civil defense agency said 31 people were killed and dozens were injured after an Israeli attack on a school protecting displaced people in the Blage refugee camp on the Central Strip on Tuesday night.

The strengthened attacks have been exacerbated by the Israeli lockdown, which has been essential supplies since March 2, and the enclaves have been stolen food and fuel items along with worsening flour. Aid groups say food supplies are nearing total exhaustion.

The mothers of six at the United Nations agency at the Palestinian Refugee (UNRWA) facility in Gaza told the agency that only bread was available, saying they had exhausted all kinds of food.

“The Israeli state must lift the siege,” Unrwa wrote to X on Wednesday.

“There must be a coordinated international effort to stop this humanitarian catastrophe from reaching new, invisible levels,” he added.

Gaza’s health sector faces the brunt of ongoing attacks and lockdowns, with at least 88% of hospital beds being occupied and medical supplies shortages.

Cerez-fire meeting

Egypt and Qatar, which mediated the first ceasefire agreement with the United States on Wednesday morning, said, “We reaffirmed our commitment to an agreement aimed at alleviating civilian suffering by ending an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and fostering the conditions necessary to achieve a comprehensive suspension.

“The two countries emphasize that attempts to sow discord between their brother countries through casting doubt, distortion, or media escalation will not succeed, and that they will prevent the two countries from continuing the joint efforts to end the war and the resulting humanitarian catastrophe.”

Israel has announced that a new, more intense military attack will begin in Gaza unless a ceasefire contract is signed, but Hamas said the discussions are pointless.

“As long as the hunger and extinction wars continue in the Gaza Strip, there is no point in engaging in consultations or considering proposals for a new ceasefire,” Hamas’ Bassem Naim told AFP news agency on Tuesday.