The Israeli army began an offensive attack targeting Gaza City on Tuesday, slowly pressuring the largest city in the Palestinian territories, which witnessed a bloc after it was already destroyed in the Hamas Israel war. The residents who are still in the city were warned of departure and heading south.
The batch represents another escalation in the conflict that led to the spread of the Middle East, as it seems that any potential ceasefire is far from hand despite months of diplomacy.
Although the army will not provide a timetable for the attack, the Israeli media indicates that it may take months.
“Gaza is burning,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel said. “We will not review and will not return – until the mission is completed.”
Meanwhile, in Geneva, independent experts commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council It announced that Israel is committing the genocide in GazaJoin an emerging international choir of these accusations. Israel strongly rejected the claim, describing the experts report as “distorted and false.”
The Palestinians, the displaced south along a coastal road in central Gaza, went on Monday, raising property on carried cars, vehicles, or even on foot. Israel urged the Palestinians in Gaza City to go out because it intensifies the bombing of the area.
UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that what is happening in Gaza is “horrific” and that the war in the Palestinian territories is “morally, politically and legal strength.”
“We now see the systematic destruction of Gaza City,” he said.
Guterres also said he will be ready to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump at the United Nations next week.
The severity of strikes grows in Gaza City
A large part of Gaza City was already placed in the first weeks of the war in 2023, but about a million Palestinians returned to the house between the rubble.
Forcing them to go out means that almost all Gaza population will be limited to camps along the coast in the south, while Israel calls it a humanitarian area.
On Monday, the United Nations estimated that more than 220,000 Palestinians had fled north of Gaza during the past month, after the Israeli army warned that all residents should leave Gaza City before the operation. An estimated one million Palestinians lived in the area surrounding Gaza City before the evacuation warnings.
Thousands of people flow throughout the coastal Gaza road on Tuesday on foot or in the vehicles loaded with mattresses and other properties, but hundreds of other thousands remain.
“Many people who left have returned because there is no room (in southern Gaza),” Ahmed Obaid, 38, told the CBC Freelance Mohamed El Saify video in Gaza City on Tuesday. “They were thrown into the streets.”
Obaid said that he is still in Gaza City with other residents because they have no way to reach southern Gaza.
Ibrahim Salam, 53, said: “We are staying here because we have no money. Two years have passed, all we have,” said Ibrahim Salam, 53.
Thousands of Palestinians set out from Gaza City, where Israel launched its ground attack on Tuesday, but hundreds of thousands are still in the city, which already commensurate with nearly two years of war. He told many residents, some of whom have escaped south, but have since returned, telling CBC News MOMD El Saify why they reside.
At least 69 Palestinians were killed in Gaza City
The Palestinian residents reported severe strikes throughout Gaza City on Tuesday morning, when hospitals in the city say that there are at least 69 deaths.
Al -Shiva Hospital received the bodies of 49 people, including 22 children, according to Dr. Rami Mohani, the hospital official, who said that dozens of wounded had entered the elbow. Al -Ahly Hospital received 17 bodies and received the used three.
“A very difficult night in Gaza,” Mohamed Abu Silmia, director of the Shiva Hospital, told Associated Press.
“The bombing did not stop for a single moment. There are still bodies under the rubble.”
Many women gathered in the hospital morgue, where AP shots showed many dead in body bags.
Soud Al -Sakani said that her daughter, son -in -law and children were killed in a blow that settled about 40 people inside.
“An entire family!” She cried, crying on their bodies in the morgue of the Shiva Hospital.
One of the women, who knew herself in the name of Umm Ahmed Zakot, said: “How long will we stay like this? We have enough.” “We threw in any country. Enough of this torture here.”
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to requests to comment on the deadly strikes, but in the past, Hamas was accused of building the military infrastructure inside the civilian areas, especially in Gaza City.
The families of the hostages begged Netanyahu to stop the process
Overnight, the families of the hostages in Gaza gathered outside the residence of Netanyahu, and exceeded it to stop the Gaza City operation. Some fiery tents and slept out of his house in protest.
“I have one interest: for this country to wake up and return my child along with 47 other hostages, whether they live and deceased, and bring our soldiers home,” Ainaf Zangoker, who is holding his son Matan in Gaza, shouted out of the Netanyahu residence. “If he stops anything and our precious, brave and heroic soldiers send to fight while our hostages are used as human shields, he is not prime minister.”
Israel believes that about 20 of 48 hostages are still kept by militants in Gaza, including Matan, alive. Hamas said it will not only liberate the remaining hostages against Palestinian prisoners, a permanent ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
The war began in Gaza when gunmen led by Hamas in southern Israel stormed on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and kidnapped 251. Most of the hostages have been released since then in the arrest of fire by Qatar or other deals.
The retaliation of Israel has killed at least 64,871 Palestinians, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which does not say the number of civilians or fighters. The ministry, with medical professionals, says women and children are about half of the dead.
US President Donald Trump said in a post on Monday on the social truth platform that he had read a news report indicating that Hamas would use prisoners as “human shields”.
Trump told correspondents on Tuesday preparing to go to the United Kingdom, “and if they do so, they will be in a big problem.”
Time runs out for the deal: Rubio
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested speaking to journalists before Israel left, that the attack on Gaza City has started.
He said that the US preference is that the war ends by settling negotiations, while recognizing the dangers posed by an intense military campaign on Gaza.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Jerusalem after Israel targeted Hamas negotiations on the Qatari soil. Although the United States is “not happy” about the attack on its ally, Rubio stressed that he still supports the Israel war.
“At some point, this must end. At some point, Hamas should be distorted, and we hope this will happen through negotiation,” said Rubio. “But I think the time, unfortunately, runs out.”
Before leaving Israel, Rubio visited the ancient city of David under Jerusalem, giving us support for a project led by Jewish settlers. Critics say that the undermining of a future Palestinian state. The international and local media were prevented from visiting.
The park is located in the shadow of the highly known complex of the Jews as the Mountain of Temple and Muslims, such as Haram Al -Sharif, or the noble sanctuary, a flash point that caused the spread of violence over the decades and remains at the heart of the Israeli and the Ballistini ascension.
Rubio, before he rejected his journey, the idea that the archaeological site was political.
Rubio traveled to Qatar, where he planned to meet his ruling commander because the nation is still angry because of the Israel strike last week, which killed five Hamas members and a local security official.
While the Arab and Muslim countries condemned the strike at the summit of Monday, they stopped any major action targeting Israel, which highlights the challenge of diplomatic pressure on any change in the behavior of Israel in the Israeli war Hamas.
Egyptian President Abdel Fateh Al -Sisi described Israel as an “enemy” in a fiery speech at the Qatar Summit on Monday.
This is the first time that an Egyptian leader has used this term since the two countries have established diplomatic relations in 1979.
Egypt has concluded a peace agreement with Israel for decades, and it worked as a mediator in the war in Gaza.
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