According to local hospitals and health officials in Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory, the Israeli air strikes blew up at least 60 people on Wednesday, including at least 60, including nearly twenty children. The strike came the day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “there is no way” and that he would stop Israel’s attack in the Palestinian enclave before Hamas was defeated.
At least 50 people were killed in the strike near Jabalia in northern Gaza, including 22 children, according to local hospitals and Hamas in Gaza's Ministry of Operations and Health. According to European hospitals, at least 10 people were killed in the city of Khan Yunis. CBS News Photographers saw multiple bodies on a street in southern Gaza.
The IDF said it targeted the Hamas stronghold below the hospital.
The day after the Trump administration bypassed Israel and reached a deal with Hamas, the attack was a deal between Israel and the United States to secure the release of the last living American hostage in the Gaza Strip, Ed Alexander. Some people think that the foundation could be laid for the ceasefire, but Netanyahu made it clear that even if Hamas freed the hostages, he would not stop Israel's war in Gaza until he reached the goal he stated, which was frustrated with the truce.
The statement issued by the Israeli Leader’s Office on Wednesday stressed that Netanyahu remains “decided to accomplish all Israel’s war goals: the release of all our hostages, the release of Hamas’ military and government defeat, and the promise that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel.”
Netanyahu under increasing pressure in all aspects
As CBS news correspondent Debora Patta reported, as many as 23 for the families of 58 people still in Gaza, Israeli officials believed that they could still be alive, and the pleasure of Alexander's release quickly turned into anger as the bombing recovered and strengthened after handover.
During the latest demonstration in the Israeli capital, many accused Netanyahu of deliberately extending the war triggered by Hamas' October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks.
When President Trump visited the region this week, former Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas told CBS News that Netanyahu had been watching off the field.
"Surprisingly, he (Trump) didn't come here," Pinks said, referring to the itinerary of the U.S. leader, which includes Stopped in Saudi Arabia this weekQatar and the United Arab Emirates. "This is a very obvious, very intrinsic move by Trump."
Pinks said Netanyahu needed to reach a ceasefire agreement in his writings to keep Mr. Trump’s good side, warning: “Israel cannot start a war against the U.S. government’s verdict and aspirations. It’s simple and clear.”
Asked if Netanyahu could resist the growing pressure to end the war by Trump, Pinks said: "Not really. There is no ammunition in his political magazine.
Currently, Mr. Trump’s pressure on Netanyahu is only diplomatic and has not publicly discussed any other measures, such as limiting the supply of US weapons, just like the brief occurrence of the Biden administration under the Biden administration.
For now, Netanyahu has intensified the war, and he continues to impose a controversial blockade of all humanitarian supplies, fuel and other essential items, entering the enclave since March.
The war in Gaza began with Hamas-led militants invading 1,200 southern Israel in 2023. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel's retaliatory offensive killed nearly 53,000 Palestinians, many of whom were women and children.
Israel's offensive destroyed extensive fragments of Gaza's urban landscape and displaced 90% of the population, usually multiple times.
France's Macron calls Netanyahu's tactics in Gaza a "shame"
International food security experts warned earlier this week that famine could break out in the Gaza Strip if Israel does not lift the lockdown and stop its military campaign.
French President Emmanuel Macron strongly condemned Netanyahu's decision to block aid from entering Gaza, a "shame" that caused the humanitarian crisis.
"I said what the Benjamin Netanyahu government is doing today is unacceptable," Macron said on TF1 national television on Tuesday night. "No medicine. We can't get the wounded. Doctors can't get in. What he is doing is a shame. It's a shame."
Macron visited injured Palestinians at El Arish Hospital in Egypt last month and called for the reopening of the Gaza border as a humanitarian convoy. "Then, yes, we have to fight to demilitarize Hamas, free hostages and build a political solution," he said.
Netanyahu lashed out at French leaders in a statement issued in her office on Wednesday, claiming that he "re-chooses to stand in a murdered Islamic terrorist organization and echoes its false propaganda while accusing Israel of blood slander".
"Macron once again demanded that Israel surrender and reward terrorism, rather than support Western democratic camps that fight against Islamic terrorist groups and call for the release of hostages," the statement said.
According to the survey results of the Integrated Food Security Stage Classification, nearly one million Palestinians face possible hunger and live at a “catastrophic” level of hunger, while 1 million others have little access to enough food.
Israel rejected international warnings of possible famine, but over the past 10 weeks it has banned all food, shelter, medicine and any other goods from entering the Palestinian territory, even as it wields air strikes and ground operations.
Gaza's population is about 2.3 million people rely almost exclusively on external aid to survive, as Israel's 19-month large military campaign undermines most of the food production capacity in the territory.