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JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived successful Israel connected Sunday, arsenic Israel intensified its attacks against bluish Gaza, flattening different high-rise gathering and sidesplitting astatine slightest 12 Palestinians.
Rubio said up of the travel that helium volition beryllium seeking answers from Israeli officials astir however they spot the mode guardant successful Gaza pursuing Israel’s onslaught connected Hamas operatives successful Qatar past week that upended efforts to broker an extremity to the conflict.
His two-day sojourn is besides a amusement of enactment for the progressively isolated Israel arsenic the United Nations holds what is expected to beryllium a contentious statement connected committedness to the instauration of a Palestinian state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu powerfully opposes the designation of a Palestinian state.
Attack connected Qatar
Rubio's sojourn went up contempt President Donald Trump’s choler astatine Netanyahu implicit the Israeli onslaught against Hamas leaders successful Doha, which helium said the United States was not notified of beforehand.
On Friday, Rubio and Trump met with Qatar’s premier curate to sermon the fallout from the Israeli operation. The dual, back-to-back meetings with Israel and Qatar exemplify however Trump medication is trying to equilibrium relations betwixt cardinal Middle East allies contempt the attack’s wide planetary condemnation.
The Doha onslaught besides appears to person ended attempts to unafraid an Israel-Hamas ceasefire and the merchandise of hostages up of the upcoming U.N. General Assembly session, astatine which the Gaza warfare is expected to beryllium a superior focus.
Deadly airstrikes mount
On Sunday, astatine slightest 13 Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded successful aggregate Israeli strikes crossed Gaza, according to section hospitals.
Local hospitals said Israeli strikes targeted a conveyance adjacent Shifa infirmary and a roundabout successful Gaza City, and a structure successful the metropolis of Deir al-Balah that killed astatine slightest six members of the aforesaid family.
Two parents, their 3 children and the children’s aunt were killed successful that strike, according to the Al-Aqsa hospital. The household was from the bluish municipality of Beit Hanoun, and arrived successful Deir al-Balah past week aft fleeing their structure successful Gaza City
The Israeli subject did not person contiguous remark connected the strikes.
As portion of its expanding cognition successful Gaza City, the Israeli subject destroyed a high-rise residential gathering connected Sunday morning, little than an hr aft an evacuation bid posted online by the subject spokesperson Avichay Adraee.
Residents said said the Kauther operation successful the Rimal vicinity was flattened to the ground. There were nary contiguous reports of casualties.
“This is portion of the genocidal measures the (Israeli) concern is carrying retired successful Gaza City,” said Abed Ismail, a Gaza City resident. “They privation to crook the full metropolis into rubble, and unit the transportation and different Nakba.”
The connection Nakba is Arabic for catastrophe and refers to erstwhile immoderate 700,000 Palestinians were expelled by Israeli forces oregon fled their homes successful what is present Israel, earlier and during the 1948 warfare that surrounded its creation.
Israeli powerfully denies accusations of genocide successful Gaza.
Starvation successful Gaza
Separately, 2 Palestinian adults died of causes related to malnutrition and starvation successful the Gaza Strip implicit the past 24 hours, the territory’s wellness ministry reported Sunday.
That has brought the decease toll from malnutrition-related causes to 277 since precocious June, erstwhile the ministry started to number fatalities among this property category, portion different 145 children died of malnutrition-related causes since the commencement of the warfare successful October 2023, the ministry said.
The warfare successful Gaza began erstwhile Hamas-led militants stormed into confederate Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, abducting 251 radical and sidesplitting immoderate 1,200, mostly civilians. There are inactive 48 hostages remaining successful Gaza, of whom 20 Israel believes are inactive alive.
Israel’s retaliatory violative has killed astatine slightest 64,803 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not accidental however galore were civilians oregon combatants. It says astir fractional of those killed were women and children. Large parts of large cities person been wholly destroyed and astir 90% of immoderate 2 cardinal Palestinians person been displaced. ___
Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writer Melanie Lidman successful Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.
