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Gaza carnage: +20 civilians killed as world urges Israel to allow aid

Shafaq News/ At least 24 Palestinians havebeen killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, Arab media outletsreported on Wednesday.

The casualties reportedly included 20civilians in Gaza City and surrounding northern areas. Gaza’s Health Ministryreported that since hostilities resumed on March 18, at least 1,928 civilianshave been killed. The overall toll since October 7, 2023, now stands at 51,305with more than 117,000 wounded.

    The ministry also condemned a recentairstrike on Al-Durra Children’s Hospital, reporting heavy damage to itsintensive care unit and power systems. “The occupation not only blocks medicineand food for Gaza’s children but actively deprives them of life,” the ministry declared,calling for international action to protect medical infrastructure.

    Global calls for humanitarian access haveintensified, with Foreign Ministers of Germany, France, and the UK havingissued a joint appeal, in which they demanded unrestricted aid deliveries intoGaza, insisting that “humanitarian assistance must never be used as leverage.”

    Since March 2, Israel has enforced a totalblockade, cutting off food, fuel, medicine, and trade—measures it links toefforts to secure the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.

    In the West Bank and Jerusalem, tensionshave continued to rise. Senior Hamas figure Abdul Rahman Shadid warned thatexpanding military operations, land confiscations, and settler violence areintensifying Palestinian resistance, describing the annexation of large areasin the West Bank and repeated raids in Jenin and Tulkarm as “part of a widerstrategy to displace the population.”

    Shadid also condemned the treatment ofPalestinian prisoners, calling current conditions “unprecedented.” He cited thecase of Mohammad Jamal al-Natsheh, whom he accused Israel of torturing andattempting to assassinate in detention, while international actors remainsilent.

    He further warned that Israeli actions atAl-Aqsa Mosque during the Passover holiday could provoke widespread unrest.Calling for mass mobilization, al-Natsheh urged Palestinians to defend the holysite against what he described as efforts to “Judaize” it.

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