Israel continued its bombings in the Gaza Strip this Saturday (13), with the war against Hamas, which governs the enclave, approaching 100 days with no end in sight.
In the southern city of Rafah, an Israeli airstrike on a house housing two displaced families killed 10 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Holding up a photo of a dead girl holding a loaf of bread, Bassem Arafeh, a family member, said families in Rafah were having dinner when their house was hit on Friday night.
“This child died of hunger, while eating a piece of bread without anything, where is the International Criminal Court to see how children die?” said Arafeh. “Where are the Muslims…and the world leaders?”
Israel says it targets fighters and does everything it can to minimize harm to non-combatants, while waging an urban war against Hamas in the densely populated Palestinian enclave.
But the scale of the deaths in Gaza and the humanitarian situation shocked global public opinion and fueled growing calls for a ceasefire.
The Israeli army said on Saturday that its forces had killed several Hamas members in the southern area of Khan Younis and the central Gaza Strip. The attack that was reported in Rafah was being investigated, according to the institution.
Hamas said its soldiers fired at an Israeli helicopter in Khan Younis, south of Gaza.
Israel announced a new phase of fighting, withdrawing some forces from northern Gaza, where they had been deployed three weeks after members of Hamas invaded southern Israel on October 7, beginning the war that will complete 100 days on Sunday.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said Israeli strikes had killed 135 Palestinians and injured 312 in the past 24 hours. In total, according to him, 23,843 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed since October 7.
Israel says it has killed at least 8,000 soldiers so far and that it has no choice but to end Hamas' rule in Gaza, after the group led the attack that killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and kidnapped 240 hostages.
In the occupied West Bank, where violence was already rising before the October 7 attack and has intensified since then, three Palestinians armed with knives, a rifle and an ax tried to storm a Jewish settlement and were killed, the Israeli army said.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the dead were aged 15, 17 and 19. An Israeli soldier was wounded in an exchange of fire with the invaders when they breached the outer fence of the settlement of Adora, near the Palestinian city of Hebron, Israel said.
(Additional reporting by Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem and Ali Sawafta in Ramallah)
Source: CNN Brasil
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