Israeli attack on Gaza kills 70 as ceasefire negotiations continue | Israel - Palestinian conflict news

At least 50 people have been killed in the Gaza attack on northern Gaza since the early hours of Wednesday.

Medical sources told Al Jazeera that the Israeli attack on Gaza killed at least 70 people as indirect ceasefire dialogue continued in Qatar.

At least 50 people have been killed in Israel's attacks on northern Gaza since the early hours of Wednesday, according to medical sources.

Gaza's Ministry of Health said nearly 50 people were killed around the southern city of Khan Younis.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment.

In Jabalia, rescuers used hand tools to crush the collapsed concrete slabs and were only illuminated by cell phone cameras to remove the bodies of some of the killed children.

Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum said in a report by Deir El-Balah in central Gaza that Israel is conducting a "systematic and intensified military air movement."

"(It) is mainly aimed at residential areas to force families to leave these areas and live in temporary tents, which will help to get it out of any plan in northern Gaza," he said.

Abu Azzoum added: “This is a very dramatic reality that emphasizes the seriousness of humanitarianism that children and displaced families in northern Gaza have been suffering over the course of the past week.”

The attack was due to the Israeli delegation continuing indirect ceasefire talks with Hamas in Doha, the day after a brief pause in the attack on Israeli captive Israel, the day after the release of Israeli captive Edan Alexander.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Tuesday that Israel will not end its military campaign in Gaza even if a ceasefire agreement is reached.

According to Gaza health authorities, Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 52,908 people since October 2023.

Israeli attacks destroyed most of Gaza's urban landscape and moved more than 90% of the population, usually multiple times.

According to Israeli statistics, Israel launched a military campaign on October 7, 2023, led by Hamas, which caused at least 1,139 people to attack.

France condemns Israel's blockade

International food security experts issued a harsh warning earlier this week that Gaza could fall into famine if Israel does not lift the blockade and stop its military attacks.

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 to humanitarian convoys. "Then, yes, we have to work to demilitarize Hamas, free hostages and build a political solution," he said.

According to the survey results of the Integrated Food Security Stage Classification, nearly one million Palestinians face possible hunger, while another million feel hunger, while another million Palestinians have little access to enough food.

In the past 10 weeks, Israel has banned all food, shelter, medicine and any other goods from entering the Palestinian territory, even though it has carried out a wave of air strikes and ground combat.

Gaza's population of about 2.3 million people rely almost exclusively on external aid to survive, as Israel's 19-month-old military campaign has eliminated the most capacity to produce food in the territory.