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RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Israeli strikes connected the confederate Gaza metropolis of Rafah overnight killed 22 people, including 18 children, wellness officials said Sunday, arsenic the United States was connected way to o.k. billions of dollars of further subject assistance to Israel, its adjacent ally.
Israel has carried retired near-daily aerial raids connected Rafah, wherever much than fractional of Gaza's colonisation of 2.3 cardinal has sought refuge from warring elsewhere. It has besides vowed to grow its crushed violative against the Hamas militant radical to the metropolis connected the borderline with Egypt contempt calls for restraint, including from the U.S.
"In the coming days, we volition summation the governmental and subject unit connected Hamas due to the fact that this is the lone mode to bring backmost our hostages and execute victory. We volition onshore much and achy blows connected Hamas - soon," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said successful a statement. He didn't springiness details.
The archetypal Israeli onslaught successful Rafah killed a man, his woman and their 3-year-old child, according to the adjacent Kuwaiti Hospital, which received the bodies. The pistillate was large and the doctors saved the baby, the infirmary said. The 2nd onslaught killed 17 children and 2 women from an extended family.
"These children were sleeping. What did they do? What was their fault?" asked 1 relative, Umm Kareem. Mohammed al-Beheiri said that his daughter, Rasha, and her six children, the youngest 18 months old, were among those killed. A pistillate and 3 children were inactive nether the rubble.
The Israel-Hamas warfare has killed much than 34,000 Palestinians, according to section wellness officials, astatine slightest two-thirds of them children and women. It has devastated Gaza's 2 largest cities and near a swath of destruction. Around 80% of the territory's colonisation person fled to different parts of the besieged coastal enclave.
The $26 cardinal assistance bundle approved by the U.S. House of Representatives connected Saturday includes astir $9 cardinal successful humanitarian assistance for Gaza, which experts accidental is connected the brink of famine. The U.S. Senate could walk the bundle arsenic soon arsenic Tuesday, and President Joe Biden has promised to motion it immediately.
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The conflict, present successful its seventh month, has sparked determination unrest pitting Israel and the U.S. against Iran and allied militant groups crossed the Middle East. Israel and Iran traded occurrence straight this month, raising fears of all-out war.
Tensions person besides spiked successful the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israeli troops killed 2 Palestinians who the subject says attacked a checkpoint with a weapon and a weapon adjacent the confederate West Bank municipality of Hebron aboriginal Sunday. The Palestinian Health Ministry said that the 2 killed were 18 and 19, from the aforesaid family. No Israeli forces were wounded, the service said.
Later, the subject said its forces changeable dormant a 43-year-old Palestinian pistillate aft she tried to stab a worker successful the bluish West Bank adjacent Beka'ot settlement.
The Palestinian Red Crescent rescue work said that it had recovered 14 bodies from an Israeli raid successful the Nur Shams municipality exile campy successful the West Bank that began precocious Thursday. Those killed see 3 militants from the Islamic Jihad radical and a 15-year-old boy. The subject said it killed 14 militants and arrested 8 suspects. Ten Israeli soldiers and 1 borderline constabulary serviceman were wounded.
In a abstracted incidental successful the West Bank, an Israeli antheral was wounded successful an detonation connected Sunday, the Magen David Adom rescue work said. A video circulating online shows a antheral approaching a Palestinian emblem planted successful a field. When helium kicks it, it appears to trigger an explosive device.
At slightest 469 Palestinians person been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers successful the West Bank since the commencement of the Israel-Hamas war, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Most person been killed during Israeli subject raids oregon successful convulsive protests.
The warfare was sparked by an unprecedented Oct. 7 raid into confederate Israel successful which Hamas and different militants killed astir 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted astir 250 hostages. Israel says militants are inactive holding astir 100 hostages and the remains of much than 30 others.
Thousands of Israelis person taken to the streets to telephone for a caller predetermination to regenerate Netanyahu and a woody with Hamas to merchandise the hostages. Netanyahu has vowed to proceed the warfare until Hamas is destroyed and each hostages are returned.
The warfare has killed astatine slightest 34,097 Palestinians and wounded different 76,980, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry doesn't differentiate betwixt combatants and civilians successful its count. It says the existent toll is apt higher arsenic galore bodies are stuck beneath the rubble oregon successful areas that medics can't reach.
Israel blames Hamas for civilian casualties due to the fact that the militants combat successful dense, residential neighborhoods. The subject seldom comments connected idiosyncratic strikes, which often termination women and children. The subject says it has killed much than 13,000 Hamas fighters, without providing evidence.
Samy Magdy reported from Cairo. Jack Jeffery contributed to this study from Jerusalem.
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