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At least 79 Palestinians have been killed since dawn in Israeli attacks through GazaWith dozens of children dying of malnutrition during the blockade punishing months of Israel, while the talks of cease-fires would have calls.
Among the victims on Saturday, 14 were killed in Gaza City, including four during an Israeli strike in a residence on rue Jaffa in the Tuffah region, which injured 10 others.
At least 30 aid seekers were killed by an Israeli army shot north of Rafah, in the south of Gaza, near the Operating GHF site, which rights defense groups and the United Nations criticized “human slaughterhouses” and “death traps”.
According to Al Jazeera Mubasher, Israeli forces drew directly from the Palestinians in front of the aid distribution center in the Al-Shakoush region in Rafah.
Reporting Deir El-Balah, Hani Mahmoud, of Al Jazeera, said that the Israeli army had opened fire without discrimination on a large crowd during one of the attacks.
“Many desperate families in the North have made dangerous trips to the south to reach the only operational distribution center in Rafah,” he said.
“Many bodies are still on the ground,” said Mahmoud, adding that those who were injured in the attack were transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
In the middle of the relentless daily carnage, it rained on hungry help seekers and the current Israeli blockade, the Gaza government media office said that 67 children had died due to malnutrition, and 650,000 children under the age of five had “a real and immediate risk of acute malnutrition in the coming weeks”.
“Over the past three days, we have recorded dozens of deaths due to essentials of food and essential medical supplies, in an extremely cruel humanitarian situation,” the statement said.
“This shocking reality reflects the magnitude of the unprecedented humanitarian tragedy in Gaza,” added the press release.
Israel generates a “cruel and Machiavellian regime to kill” in Gaza, the head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday, because the World Organization has reported that since May, when the GHF has started its operations, some 800 Palestinians have been killed while asking for help.
“Under our watch, Gaza has become the children’s (and) children’s cemetery,” said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.
While the Israeli army announced on Saturday that its forces attacked Gaza 250 times in the last 48 hours, Israeli officials have continued to push a plan to move and finally to expel the Palestinians.
Earlier this week, the Minister of Defense Israel Katz announced a plan to build a so-called “Humanitarian City” which will house 2.1 million Palestinians on the rubble of parts of the city of Rafah, which was shaved on the ground.
But the Palestinians of Gaza rejected the plan and reiterated that they would not leave the enclave. Rights defense groups, international organizations and several nations criticized it by throwing the ground for “ethnic cleaning”, the forced withdrawal of a population of its homeland.
Israeli political analyst Akiva Eldar told Al Jazeera on Saturday that the majority of Israelis are “really dismayed” by Katz’s plan, which would be “illegal and immoral”.
“Whoever participates in this disgusting project will be involved in war crimes,” said Elder.
The underlying message in terms of plan, he said, is that “there can be two people between the river and the sea, and those who deserve to have a state are only the Jewish people.”
As Israel announces its intention to force the population of Gaza to Rafah, a professor in the Middle East at the University of Turin, Lorenzo Kamel, told Al Jazeera that the expulsion of the Palestinians of their land and their concentration in limited areas was not new.
In 1948, 77 years ago to date, 70,000 Palestinians were expelled from the village of Lydda during what became known as “death march”.
“Many of them ended up in the Gaza Strip,” said Kamel, adding that the Israeli authorities have forced Palestinians to spaces similar to concentration camps for decades.
“It’s not something new, but he has accelerated in recent months,” he said. The plan to bring together the population of Gaza on the ruins of Rafah is therefore “nothing but another camp in preparation for the expulsion of the Gaza Strip”.
The negotiations taking place in Qatar to cement a truce stall on the extent of the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Strip, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources familiar with the issue, the Reuters news agency reported on Saturday.
Indirect talks should continue, despite the last obstacles in the winning an agreement based on an American proposal for a 60-day ceasefire.
A Palestinian source said that Hamas had not accepted the withdrawal cards that Israel proposed, because they would leave around 40% of the territory under Israeli occupation, including all Rafahs and other territories in the North and East of Gaza.
Questions concerning the full and free of aid flow to a hungry population and the guarantees also had a challenge.
Two Israeli sources said Hamas wanted Israel to retire to the lines he held in a previous ceasefire, before renewing his offensive in March.
The delegations of Israel and Hamas have been in Qatar since Sunday in a renewed push for an agreement.