55 killed in new Israeli attacks on Gaza amid ‘worst restrictions’ on aid

Israel’s incessant bombardment of Gaza, including Jabalia in the north, has killed at least 55 more Palestinians.

Gaza’s Ministry of Health said on Tuesday more than 300 had also been injured in the past 24 hours.

In one of the regime’s most devastating attacks on Gaza, an entire family was killed in the bombing of their home near the southern city of Khan Yunis. Mahmoud Basal, the spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, said seven of those killed belonged to the Sayed family. He said their bodies were buried in their family home.

About a dozen Palestinians were murdered by the regime’s warplanes near the Jabalia refugee camp.

Israeli helicopters bombed Palestinian agricultural land south of the Maghazi area in central Gaza.

Earlier, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that eight Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a group of civilians in Gaza City and two tents for the displaced in Khan Yunis.

The Lebanese television network al-Mayadeen reported the Israeli forces launched airstrikes on Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza.

On Monday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas slammed the latest Israeli military onslaught on the northern Gaza Strip, saying it is meant to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population in the area.

“The aim of the current Israeli onslaught is to displace the population of northern Gaza towards the south. The Israeli army aims to use maximum firepower in Gaza to paint an image of achievement and success,” said Osama Hamdan, the Gaza-based group’s senior representative in Lebanon.

Hamdan said the so-called Generals’ Plan, proposed to Netanyahu and the Knesset (parliament) by a group of retired generals, is only meant to play with the emotions of the settlers in the occupied territories, as the regime suffers from its debacle in Gaza.

The plan reportedly seeks to give Palestinians a week to leave the northern third of the Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, before declaring it a closed military zone. Those who remain would be considered combatants, and denied food, water, medicine and fuel.

“There must be efforts to support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Resistance operations will continue and expand to defend our people despite all circumstances,” the senior Hamas official said.

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The rights organization says the Israeli army is escalating its genocide against Palestinians by committing more massacres in northern Gaza.

UN condemns ‘worst restrictions’ on Gaza humanitarian aid

James Elder, spokesman for the UN children’s agency UNICEF, said on Tuesday that Gaza appeared to be facing the “worst restrictions on humanitarian aid” since October 2023. “Day after day, the situation for children becomes worse than the day before.”

In spite of a desperate need to increase the amount of aid going in, Elder said aid access was worsening, with “no commercial trucks whatsoever allowed to come in” for several days.

The UN earlier said no trucks of food, water, or medicine have entered the north since September 30.

Northern Gaza “hasn’t had food, any food aid at all coming in all of October,” Elder said.

The dire lack of aid, coupled with the relentless strikes and the fact that virtually 85 percent of the Gaza Strip has been hit with some form of evacuation order, has made the territory “essentially unlivable,” Elder said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in a vicious attempt to starve out the Palestinians.

The plan proposed to Netanyahu by a group of retired generals would give Palestinians a week to leave the northern third of the Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, before declaring it a closed military zone.

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