Israel Declares Gaza City Combat Zone; Death Toll Tops 63,000

While the Army explained the start of the war, the health authorities said that the death fee in Gaza rose to 63,025 and rose to 59 deaths reported by hospitals for the last 24 hours. The aid groups and the people with a church said that they would stay in Gaza City, and refused to abandon their hungry and displacement.

Shifts come weeks after Israel planned to expand the attack in the city, which is based on Israel for the first time, hundreds of thousands of people. Recently, the army has held strikes on the skirts of the city.

Smoke and thunderstorms can be seen and heard on the border of Southern Israel on Friday morning.

Israel called Gaza City as a Hamas Castle, claiming that a tunnel network remained in use despite the previous raids in the region during the 23 -month war.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel should injure Hamas’s talents in the city to repeat October 7, 2023.

While the United Nations agencies and aid groups condemned the attack, people in Gaza said that this made very little difference.

Calm Mohamed Aboul Hadi, a text message from the City of Gaza, “massacres never stopped, even during human pauses,” he said.

Some fleeing from the south brought together tents at the Central Gaza Strip to the west of the Nuseirat refugee camp on Friday. They talked about the miserable conditions they endured.

Mohammed Maarouf, standing in front of him and a nine -person shelter, Muhammad Maarouf said, “What am I saying to the streets? We are not like dogs? We are not like dogs. Dogs better than us.” He said.

Gaza Health Ministry said on Friday, more than 63,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began. The number of the Ministry – 63.025 – does not distinguish between fighters and civilians. He also said that since the war began, he has been increased to 322, including 121 children and died for reasons for malnutrition in the last 24 hours.

The Ministry is a part of the government operated by Hamas and is working by medical experts. UN and independent experts see this as the most reliable source for war losses. Israel objected to the figures, but did not give it on its own.

Some refuse to leave when the Gaza City attack began to encounter international criticisms, Israel called “tactical pause” last month in Gaza City and the other two -populated area. This paused to fight from 10 in the morning to allow more aid to pass, but the aid groups, blockage, looting and Israeli restrictions, he said.

On Friday in the afternoon, he changed the army course, marked the last rise in some neighborhoods of the city after weeks of preparation strikes and called tens of thousands of reserves.

Avichay Adraee, a spokesman for the Israeli Army, who called on Palestinians in Gaza to escape from the south and call the evacuation “inevitable”, said, ız We will intensify our strikes until we bring all the hostages back and tell Hamas. ”

Hundreds of quiet journey began on Friday and was digging a few of his remaining belongings in trucks or donkey cars. Many of them were forced to leave their homes more than once.

The UN said it on Thursday.

Saddam said, “We cannot find any place in the west nor in the south. Conditions are difficult. Where are we going?” He said.

Approximately 440 people who took refuge in the Church of the Holy Family Church of the Gaza city planned to stay there with the clergy, although the church had very few defenses.

Farid Jubran, Associated Press, said, “When we feel danger, people approach the walls or whatever, more protected,” he said.

The UN’s Humanitarian Institution planned to keep its staff and NGOs on the ground.

The aid groups, Israeli army, residents or aid groups on Friday at 11:30 at 11:30 before the announcement before the announcement of the plans to report their plans to report, he said.

The Norway refugee council coordinated a charity group coalition in Gaza, said it had no in advance notification. The UN was afraid that the region could lose half of the hospital bed capacity.

Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Zaher Al-Wahidi, “South-surrounded 2 million people can not provide health care,” he said.

Renewed attacks come a week after the world’s leading food safety authority declares famine in Gaza City.

A Israeli military official said he would try to facilitate Israel’s assistance presentation, but it has not provided any details about how they can achieve it in the middle of the war.

“This will have a terrible impact on people who have already been exhausted, malnutized, leaning, displaced and deprived of survival foundations,” the UN said.

On Friday, the remnants of the hostages that saved Israel said that the army of the army saved the remains of two hostages – Ilan Weiss and another left anonymous.

Netanyahu said, “We will not rest until we return all our hostages with both living and dead, or we will not remain silent,” he said.

Hamas’ armed wing spokesman Abu Obeida, Gaza City fighters are ready, he said. He said that the group would try to keep hostages alive, but that war is expected in the areas they were held.

Weiss 55 -year -old Weiss was killed in an attack on Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the storms on 7 October near Gaza.

The return of the ruins for families closes slightly, but also a reminder of the hostages that are still held.

Rubi Chen, who was kidnapped and believed to have died during the October 7 attack, said, at least they close, ”he said. “There are still 49 families waiting to be closed.”

Approximately 50 of the hostage remain in Gaza, 20 Israel is thought to be alive. The militants also killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians in the October 7 attack. Most hostages were published in hot or other opportunities.

Israeli leaders’ hostages and Lost Families Forum, which organized large -scale protests to return hostages, said that Israeli leaders should give priority to an agreement to return both the living and the dead.

“We urge the Israeli government to enter negotiations and stay at the table until each hostage comes home. Time is exhausted,” he said.