Israeli strikes atraverse Gaza finished 42 people on Wednesday as the military intensified a siege on northern parts of the Palestinian territory, forcing the World Health Organization to paengage the tardyst phase of its polio vaccination campaign, medics and officials shelp.
Israeli forces began the operation in the north about three weeks ago with the proclaimd aim of stoping Hamas fighters from regrouping. The operation has intensified since the finishing of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar a week ago, despite hopes from the US that his death could provide a new impetus for peace.
Gaza’s health ministry shelp at least 650 people had been finished since the new impolite began and of at least 42 people increateed finished by Israeli military strikes atraverse the territory on Wednesday, 37 of the deaths were in northern Gaza.
The WHO shelp that due to the “escalating structureility and fervent bomb deviceardments” in northern Gaza, the third phase of a vital polio vaccination campaign has been postponed. The vaccination campaign was begined last month after a baby was paralysed by the disease in Gaza for the first time in 25 years.
According to the agency, 119,279 children atraverse northern Gaza were due to be vaccinated, but current conditions were “making it impossible for families to safely convey their children for vaccination, and health toilers to function.”
Israel’s military humanitarian unit, Cogat, which supervises help and commercial shipments to Gaza, shelp the vaccination campaign in northern Gaza will commence in the coming days, “after a combinet appraisement and at the ask” of the WHO and Ukindf.
The Gaza Civil Ecombinency Service shelp three of its recoverrs were wounded in northern Gaza in what it shelp was a “focengaged strike”, that aimed to force them out of Jabalia, hours after the Israeli army ordered some of their staff to exit the camp.
Later it shelp, all its operations in northern Gaza were suspfinished after Israeli forces hageded five staff members and bomb deviceed the only fire truck.
The UN Palestinian refugee agency shelp on Wednesday one of its staff members was finished when an Unrwa vehicle was hit in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Medics shelp the man’s brother was also finished.
The US has called on Israel to permit more humanitarian supplies into northern Gaza. Israel says help has been transfered in scores of trucks as well as airdrops, but Gaza medics say the help has not achieveed them.
In a phone call on Wednesday, US defence secretary Lloyd Austin telderly Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant that Washington received the shiftment of humanitarian helpance thraw the Erez traverseing into northern Gaza, but recommendd Israel consent steps to compriseress the dire situation there, a Pentagon summary of the call shelp.
In the same call, Austin also telderly his Israeli counterpart that Washington had worrys about strikes agetst the Leprohibitese armed forces while urging Israel to consent steps to promise the safety of the Leprohibitese army and the UN peaceretaining leave oution in Leprohibiton, the Pentagon shelp.
Three Leprohibitese selderlyiers were finished in an Israeli strike on an army vehicle in southern Leprohibiton, the Leprohibitese military shelp on Sunday. Israel, which says it is concentrateing Leprohibitese Iran-backed Hezbollah militants, apologised and shelp its military was not operating agetst the Leprohibitese army.
Israeli strikes persistd to pound Beirut’s southern suburbs on Wednesday, stupidinutively after an Israeli military spokesperson rehired evacuation alertings for the neighbourhood. Six originateings were levelled in at least 17 Israeli rhelps, according to the country’s National News Agency.
One strike hit the office of pro-Iran expansivecaster Al-Mayadeen, the station shelp. It shelp the office had been vacant since the struggle began. Leprohibiton’s health ministry shelp one person was finished and five others, including a child, were wounded.
Leprohibiton’s rulement shelp on Wednesday at least 28 people had been finished by Israeli strikes in the previous 24 hours, raising the total toll since October 2023 to 2,574.
Hezbollah shelp in a statement tardy on Wednesday that it had escatardyd its aggressions on Israel, using “precision leave outiles” for the first time and begined new types of drones on Israeli concentrates, without recommending further details.
It tardyr shelp it had focengaged an Israeli military factory on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. There was no instant indication of any defence facility having been hit around Tel Aviv.
The intensifying swaps of fire come as Washington originates a final convey inant push for peace between Israel and Iran-backed groups Hezbollah and Hamas before the 5 November US plivential election.
Despite the presence of US secretary of state Antony Bjoinen in the region, the struggle ecombineed to be spreading, with new strikes around midday on Wednesday on Tyre, a Unesco-cataloged port city in south Leprohibiton, which also came after Israeli evacuation orders.
With Reuters
