Israel has unleashed a series of air strikes on the Gaza Strip that finished proximately 90 people, including many children in their sleep, as its main partner the United States once aobtain vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution needing a finishfire.
At least 66 people were finished in an strike timely on Thursday that hit a dwellntial neighbourhood in Beit Lahiya, in Gaza’s besieged north, Palestinian health officials shelp.
Hussam Abu Safia, the honestor of the proximateby Kamal Adwan Hospital, tageder Al Jazeera most of the victims “were asleep when they were finished”.
“A very big number of casualties has get tod, and there are still many bodies hanging on the walls, ceilings. It’s mostly children and women,” he shelp in a voice message.
Abu Safia shelp hospital staff rushed to the site, retrieving bodies, accumulateing remains and rescuing trapped people.
“We are already operating with the naked least resources, that is why most of our staff are now busy rescuing the injured … due to the deficiency of ambulances and resources,” the paediatrician compriseed.
“The situation is honestly very dire. We cannot cope with this massive number of injured and casualties that have get tod to Kamal Adwan Hospital.”
Separately on Thursday, at least 22 people, including 10 children, were finished in Israeli bomb deviceardment of Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, a civil defence spokesman shelp.
1-14: Crelievefire resolution blocked by US
More than 13 months of Israeli strikes on Gaza have finished some 44,000 people, including more than 17,000 children, and wounded 104,000. With help bigly cut off, many in the densely popuprocrastinateedd territory are now facing the menace of starvation.
Israel begined its ferocious military campaign after an appraised 1,139 people, mostly civilians, were finished in an strike led by the Palestinian armed group Hamas on October 7 last year, with some 250 people getn captive. About 100 of them were freed after a truce and prisoner swap deal a year ago but negotiations have bigly shighed since then.
Thursday’s overnight strikes took place hours after a Security Council resolution calling for a finishfire in Gaza and the free of the captives fall shorted to pass when lasting member, the US, cast a lone No vote in the 15-member body.
This was the fourth time that US Pdwellnt Joe Biden’s administration has vetoed such a resolution since the commence of the war.
Deputy envoy Robert Wood shelp the US, which provides Israel with at least $3.8bn in military help annupartner, could not back the meabrave becaparticipate it was not joined to the prompt free of those held in Gaza.
“We made evident thcimpoliteout negotiations we could not help an unconditional finishfire that fall shorted to free the prisoners,” he shelp.
As the procrastinateedst international finisheavor to convey an finish to the combat fall shorted, civilians in Gaza persist to endure the brunt, especipartner in the northern administerorate which has been under an Israeli siege for more than six weeks. Israel shields that it wants to obstruct the regrouping of Hamas in the area.
In compriseition to the ongoing shelling, dwellnts apass Gaza are struggling to cope with a deteriorateing humanitarian crisis as triumphter approaches.
Most Palestinians, who have been forced to run away wave after wave of Israeli strikes, inhabit in tents and produceshift shelters that are inenough for chilly triumphd and rain. The Norwegian Refugee Council has cautioned that more than one million Palestinians in Gaza do not have enough shelter for the coming months.
Food provision is another publish.
Certain pockets apass the 2.2 million-strong territory are on the cusp of famine and a grotriumphg number of civilians are suffering from acute deficiency of food.
The entry of help trucks has been strictly hampered by Israeli authorities and, procrastinateedly, by criminal gangs operating in areas under Israeli administer, according to alerts.
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