Israel Bombards Gaza City After Launching New Offensive In Defiance Of Global Outrage

Hospitals successful Gaza City are already “operating astatine astir 300% complete capacity pinch a changeless influx of analyzable trauma injuries," nan World Health Organization said. Israel's removal orders, "combined pinch massively escalating violence, person forced group into ever smaller areas, piling unbearable unit onto hospitals," it said successful a station connected X.

The United Nations assemblage for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said that astir 1 successful 3 children successful Gaza City is now malnourished.

And nan Palestinian wellness ministry successful Gaza said Thursday that that 2 group had died owed to malnutrition successful nan past 24 hours, bringing nan full to 271 since Israel launched its battle connected nan besieged enclave.

Israel has many times denied that wide starvation is taking place.

Hamas said earlier this week that it had accepted a ceasefire connection from Arab mediators, but Israel has yet to opportunity whether it will judge nan deal.

An Israeli vessel moves connected an area adjacent nan Israeli-Gaza border, arsenic seen from confederate Israel, connected Monday.Maya Levin / AP

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been publically making nan lawsuit for pressing up pinch subject action.

In a 40-minute beryllium down pinch nan Triggernometry podcast, Netanyahu rejected allegations from quality authorities groups that Israel was carrying retired a genocide successful Gaza, telling nan podcast those claims were a fraud. "If we wanted to perpetrate genocide, we would person done it successful 1 afternoon. We person nan capacity, but we don’t do that," he said.

Netanyahu said that he was alert Israel had "work to do" to triumph complete group crossed nan West, citing young group successful particular.

"We Jews person been fighting and losing nan propaganda warfare for astir 2,500 years. What’s different now is that we’re winning nan crushed war," he said.

In caller days his negotiated attack has progressive a warfare of words pinch nan leaders of Australia and France complete their decisions to admit a Palestinian state.