Israel says it killed a Hamas spokesman at the air strike, while the attack descends in Gaza City

A spokesman for the Hamas terrorist terrorist group was killed by Israeli aircraft raid in Gaza During the weekend, the Israeli Defense Minister is called.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier that Israel targeted Abu Obida, the official spokesperson for a long time for the Qassam Hamas Brigade, but he did not know whether he had been killed.

“I hope it is not with us, but I noticed that there is no one in the Hamas team to clarify this matter.”

Later, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the killing of Obida, saying in a After social media Obida has been sent “to meet all the lovers of the evil axis of Iran, Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen at the bottom of hell.”

The last statement of Obida was on Friday, when Israel began the initial stages of the new military attack in Gaza City, announcing the inhabited area of ​​the fighting area.

Hamas did not comment on Israel’s demand.

Obida is the latest Hamas representative to target them and Israel, as it tries to dismantle the group’s military ability and prevent an attack like October 7, 2023, when the militants kidnapped 251 people and killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians.

On Friday, Israel launched her The last military operation In Gaza City. The army spokesman in the Arabic language in the army urged hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are still in Gaza City to flee to the south, but only tens of thousands did not do so. Many say they are very stressful after repeated displacement operations or are not convinced that any place is safer.

Meanwhile, at least 43 Palestinians have been killed since Saturday, most of them in Gaza City, according to local officials.

Sheva – the largest in the region – said that 29 bodies were brought to a morgue, including 10 people who were killed while asking for help.

On Sunday morning, hospital officials reported 11 deaths and shooting. Al -Auda Hospital said that seven of them are civilians trying to reach help.

Witnesses said that the Israeli forces opened fire on the crowds in the Netzarim corridor, an Israeli military zone that parted Gaza.

“We were trying to get food, but we met with the bullets of the occupation,” said Ragheb Abu Libad from Noussarat, who saw at least three people bleeding from his wounds. “It is the trap of death.”

The corridor has become increasingly fraught with risks, as civilians were killed while approaching the United Nations convoys flooded by desperate letters and crowds, or shot the sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli -supported American contractor. The Foundation nor the Israeli army did not respond to questions about Sunday’s victims.

At least 63,371 Palestinians died in Gaza during the war, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health, which does not say the number of fighters or civilians, but they say that about half of them were women and children.

Earlier this month, the classification of the non -supported integrated food security phase Advertise a famine in Gaza CityThe largest city in Gaza, although Israel has declared a combat area, ends humanitarian and intensified air strikes throughout the city. Israel maintains supplies that reach the population and denies that there is a famine in the region.

Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program On Sunday, Cindy McCain told the nation with Margaret Brennan“She recently toured Gaza and described it as” a really devastating situation. “

McCain said: “Without a full ceasefire and the ability to enter, as I said, on a large scale, without restrictions, while ensuring that we are safe, and we also do so,” McCain said. “This is the only way we will be able to feed people. In recent weeks, we have been able to get more food.”