An explosion happens following an Israeli airstrike on a residential constructing, amid the battle between Israel and Hamas, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, July 20, 2024. | Picture credit score: Reuters
At the least 13 individuals have been killed in three Israeli airstrikes that hit refugee camps in central Gaza in a single day on July 21, Palestinian well being officers mentioned, as ceasefire talks in Cairo seemed to be transferring ahead.
Among the many lifeless on the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps have been three kids and a girl, in keeping with Palestinian ambulance crews who transported the our bodies to the close by Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. AP journalists counted the 13 our bodies on the hospital.
Earlier, a medical crew delivered a reside child to a Palestinian lady who was killed in an airstrike that hit her dwelling in Nuseirat on Thursday evening.
Ola al-Kurd, 25, was killed together with six others within the blast, however emergency employees rushed him to Al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza within the hope of saving the fetus. Hours later, docs mentioned The Related Press {that a} youngster had been born.
The new child, nonetheless unnamed, is in secure situation however has been affected by oxygen deprivation and has been positioned in an incubator, Dr. Khalil Dajran mentioned Friday.
“Ola’s husband and a relative survived yesterday’s assault, whereas everybody else was killed,” Majid al-Kurd, the deceased lady’s cousin, instructed AP on Saturday.
“The child is in good well being, in keeping with what the docs mentioned,” he added.
The Gaza struggle, which erupted on Oct. 7 with Hamas’s assault on southern Israel, has killed greater than 38,900 individuals, in keeping with the territory’s well being ministry, which makes no distinction between combatants and civilians in its tally. The struggle has created a humanitarian disaster within the Palestinian coastal territory, displaced most of its 2.3 million individuals and led to widespread famine.
The Hamas assault in October killed 1,200 individuals, largely civilians, and the militants took about 250 hostage. About 120 stay in captivity and a couple of third of them are believed to be lifeless, in keeping with Israeli authorities.
Based on well being authorities within the Gaza Strip, the struggle between Israel and Hamas has left hundreds of girls and kids lifeless. In April, a untimely Palestinian child was rescued from the womb of his lifeless mom, however died days later.
Within the occupied West Financial institution, the Palestinian Well being Ministry reported {that a} 20-year-old man was shot lifeless by Israeli forces on Friday night. Commenting on the capturing, the Israeli navy mentioned its forces opened hearth on a gaggle of Palestinians who have been throwing stones at Israeli troops within the city of Beit Ummar.
An eyewitness mentioned Ibrahim Zaqeq was circuitously concerned within the clashes and was close by.
“Zaqeq simply checked out them they usually shot him within the head. I picked him up from right here and took him to the clinic,” mentioned Thare Abu Hashem.
On Saturday, Hamas recognized Zaqeq as one among its members. The militant group’s inexperienced flag was draped over his physique in the course of the funeral.
Violence has escalated within the territory because the Gaza struggle started. At the least 577 Palestinians within the West Financial institution have been killed by Israeli hearth since then, in keeping with the Ramallah-based Well being Ministry, which retains observe of Palestinian deaths.
In Cairo, worldwide mediators, together with the US, are persevering with to press Israel and Hamas to achieve a gradual settlement that will halt the combating and free some 120 hostages in Gaza.
On Friday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken mentioned a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel that will free Israeli hostages held by the group in Gaza is “throughout the 10-yard line,” however added that “we all know that something within the final 10 yards is essentially the most troublesome.”
Since a week-long ceasefire in November, the warring sides have been engaged in fruitless, on-again, off-again negotiations, with each Hamas and Israel repeatedly accusing one another of thwarting efforts to achieve a deal.
