GAZA(National times)- At least 32 people, including 13 seeking aid, have been killed on Thursday in Israeli attacks across Gaza, according to Palestinian health authorities, as four more people died from malnutrition amid a growing starvation crisis in the besieged territory. Eight people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential home in Gaza City in northern Gaza, medical sources told Al Jazeera. Two other people were killed in an Israeli attack on the city\u2019s Tuffah neighbourhood, hospital sources told Al Jazeera. The killings come as Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza City, the largest city in the enclave, after the country\u2019s security cabinet approved plans for the military to seize the city, an operation that could forcibly displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to concentration zones in southern Gaza. The plan has received international condemnation from the United Nations and even dissent from within Israel\u2019s own military. Al Jazeera correspondents reported on Thursday that large swaths of northern Gaza have been turned into \u201clifeless wastelands\u201d amid the Israeli escalation. Palestinians in Gaza City have spoken of their fears of further displacement, following an Israeli forced evacuation order to areas further south, in advance of the proposed occupation. Walaa Sobh said she had already been displaced during the war from the northern city of Beit Lahiya to Gaza City, and was unable to move again. \u201cWe\u2019re afraid to move anywhere else, because we have nowhere to go, no income \u2013 and I am a widow,\u201d she told Al Jazeera. \u201cIf they want to force us out, then at least find us a place, give us tents, especially for the widows, the children, and the sick. You\u2019re not only displacing one or two people; you\u2019re displacing millions who have nowhere to stay.\u201d \u201cI am a mother of five and the wife of a detainee. I cannot escape with my children from one place to another,\u201d Hamdan told Al Jazeera. \u201cI would rather face death here in Gaza City than go to al-Mawasi.\u201d Al Jazeera\u2019s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara said Israel\u2019s plans to occupy Gaza City are a serious cause for concern. \u201cIt\u2019s a terrible escalation, really,\u201d said Bishara. \u201c[Netanyahu] really intends to reoccupy Gaza \u2026 send the military in and just take it on again.\u201d The humanitarian consequences of Israel expanding its offensive in Gaza \u201cwould be dire\u201d for Palestinians who have already endured 22 months of displacement and bloodshed, Mohamed Elmasry, professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, told Al Jazeera. \u201cThese are people who have been displaced \u2013 in many cases more than 10 times and in some cases more than 20 times already \u2013 and quite literally dodging bombs for the past 22 months,\u201d Almasri said. \u201cAnd they are starving in addition to all that.\u201d Elmasry described the Israeli plan as part of a broader effort to push Palestinians out of Gaza. \u201cIsrael wants to empty the Gaza Strip, and it wants at least all the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TRUCE TALKS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As Israel continues to escalate attacks on Gaza City, Mossad spy chief David Barnea is visiting Qatar in an effort to revive talks over a Gaza ceasefire, two Israeli officials told the Reuters news agency on Thursday. The visit follows a reported expression of positivity from Hamas officials to restart ceasefire negotiations during a meeting with Egypt\u2019s intelligence chief in Cairo earlier this week. Earlier on Thursday, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel said that a non-Israeli, peaceful civilian administration for Gaza was among the Israeli government\u2019s five key principles for ending the war. The other principles include the release of captives still held in Gaza, the surrender of weapons by Hamas, the full demilitarisation of Gaza, and Israel retaining overriding security control, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AID STILL \u2018A DROP IN THE OCEAN\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, more than 100 aid groups on Thursday accused Israel of obstructing life-saving aid from entering Gaza, resulting in vast quantities of relief supplies remaining stranded in warehouses across Jordan and Egypt as more Palestinians starve. \u201cDespite claims by Israeli authorities that there is no limit on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, most major international NGOs [nongovernmental organisations] have been unable to deliver a single truck of life-saving supplies since 2 March,\u201d the groups said. There is aid sitting all around the boundary between Israel and Gaza that is not being allowed in, Natasha Davies, a nursing activity manager with Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, told Al Jazeera. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a couple of trucks in [to Gaza], but really, it\u2019s just a drop in the ocean \u2026 We run primarily a trauma surgical hospital, so every single patient has a wound of some sort that needs fixing with supplies that we are intermittently receiving,\u201d Davies said by videolink from Gaza\u2019s southern city of Khan Younis. \u201cIt\u2019s just a humanitarian catastrophe. There are these GHF sites, which are slaughter masquerading as aid, which create mass casualty incidents, which create more injuries for us to treat with limited resources,\u201d she said. Basal Mahmoud, Gaza\u2019s civil defence spokesperson, told Al Jazeera Arabic that the aid currently entering the enclave is \u201cnot sufficient at all\u201d. He said at least 1,000 trucks of various supplies are needed each day, adding that only about 100 trucks enter daily, most of them going to traders rather than meeting market needs. Dr Munir al-Bursh, director of Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry, said Israel is starving to death \u201call sorts of people\u201d, including children and women. He warned that 40,000 children under one were suffering from malnutrition, 250,000 children under five face life-threatening food shortages, and 1.2 million children under 18 are living in severe food insecurity. \u201cWe are facing overwhelming, frightening figures,\u201d al-Bursh told Al Jazeera Arabic. The accusations from aid groups came as United States President Donald Trump said he would like to see journalists gain access to Gaza to see humanitarian efforts. Israel has not allowed foreign reporters to enter Gaza since the start of its war on the besieged enclave, unless they are under Israeli military escort. \u201cI would be very fine with journalists going,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a very dangerous position to be in, as you know, if you\u2019re a journalist, but I would like to see it.\u201d The total number of aid seekers killed since May 27, when Israel introduced a new aid distribution mechanism through the US-based GHF, has reached at least 1,881, with more than 13,863 injured, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry. The total count of hunger-related deaths is now 239, including 106 children, the ministry records. Israel\u2019s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,776 people and wounded 154,906. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GAZA(National times)- At least 32 people, including 13 seeking aid, have been killed on Thursday in Israeli attacks across Gaza, according to Palestinian health authorities, as four more people died from malnutrition amid a growing starvation crisis in the besieged territory. Eight people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential home in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n