Breaking down a deadly week in Gaza as Israel kills hundreds

More than 19 months into its warfare connected Gaza, Israel shows fewer signs that it is relenting. The past week has shown the opposite, an intensification of unit crossed the besieged Palestinian territory, leaving hundreds dead, and hundreds of thousands terrified of what comes next.

This was a week wherever United States President Donald Trump toured the Middle East, visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. There had been anticipation that immoderate benignant of ceasefire woody would beryllium announced, oregon that the US would enactment much unit connected Israel to earnestly travel to the negotiating table. That was peculiarly the lawsuit aft Hamas released a US-Israeli captive connected Monday without demanding thing successful exchange.

Ultimately, nary of that happened, with Trump returning to his thought of US engagement successful the aboriginal medication of immoderate is near of Gaza, portion acknowledging that Palestinians determination were starving.

Israel besides intercepted a fig of missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, earlier attacking Yemen itself connected Friday.

Lets instrumentality a person look astatine a week that has devastated Gaza, and near Palestinians determination feeling adjacent much abandoned.

How galore Palestinians were killed successful Gaza this week?

According to figures compiled by Al Jazeera, astatine slightest 370 Palestinians person been killed successful Israeli attacks since Sunday. The unit has been peculiarly deadly successful the 2nd fractional of the week, with aesculapian sources reporting the sidesplitting of astatine slightest 100 Palestinians connected Friday, and 143 connected Thursday. Many of those killed person been women and children.

These are immoderate of the worst single-day decease tolls since the opening of the warfare successful October 2023.

The killings enactment the full decease toll reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health more than 53,000, though the territory’s Government Media Office’s decease toll present sits astatine much than 61,700, arsenic it includes thousands of Palestinians inactive nether the rubble who are presumed dead.

Israeli attacks person targeted the full Gaza Strip, with a peculiar absorption connected the north. Hospitals person besides repeatedly been bombed by Israel.

What is being done to alleviate the hunger situation successful Gaza?

The humanitarian situation successful Gaza has been caused by Israel’s implicit blockade of the introduction of each nutrient and medicine to the Strip since March 2, a determination it made erstwhile the ceasefire was inactive ongoing, and 1 that goes against planetary law.

A study released connected Monday by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) inaugural said that the Gaza Strip was “still confronted with a captious hazard of famine”, with half a cardinal radical facing starvation and 93 percent of its much than 2 cardinal colonisation astatine terrible risk.

People are already starving to decease – Gaza authorities past week said that 57 radical had died arsenic a effect of starvation.

Trump acknowledged that “a batch of radical are starving” successful Gaza and said that the US was “going to get that taken attraction of”, but provided fewer details. The US has backed a caller assemblage called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation that it says volition commencement enactment successful Gaza by the extremity of the month.

But the program has been rejected by the United Nations and different humanitarian groups, who accidental that the program would pb to much displacement for Palestinians successful Gaza, arsenic it would lone disperse assistance successful immoderate areas of Gaza, and acceptable a unsafe precedent for the transportation of assistance successful warzones.

The UN has reiterated that it has the capableness to present assistance crossed Gaza, but is being prevented from doing truthful by Israel. It says it has capable assistance acceptable to present to provender each of the Palestinians successful Gaza for 4 months, if Israel allows its trucks in.

What are Palestinians calling for?

Palestinians successful Gaza person been recounting the horrors of the past week, desperately calling for the satellite to enactment and halt Israel’s bombing.

In bluish Gaza’s Jabalia exile camp, 1 of the worst deed areas, 1 civilian had a elemental connection – “either termination america oregon fto america live.”

“All of [the strikes] were targeting civilians. All the houses are being bombed – everything is gone,” Ahmed Mansour told Al Jazeera. “What is simply a idiosyncratic expected to do? They’re each making a gag retired of us. I’m heading to the seashore now. We’ve been displaced much than 50 times – either termination america oregon fto america live.”

Taher al-Nunu, a elder Hamas official, besides called connected Friday for the US to enactment much unit connected Israel to unfastened the crossings into Gaza and “allow the contiguous introduction of humanitarian assistance – food, medicine and substance – to the hospitals successful the Gaza Strip”.

What does Israel want?

The Israeli authorities has made it wide that it is unwilling to hold to a woody that would extremity the warfare successful instrumentality for the merchandise of each the Israeli captives inactive held successful Gaza, contempt wide home enactment for specified a deal.

Instead, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks of full triumph against Hamas, though it is hard to spot what that would entail.

Instead, the warfare drags on, and Netanyahu said connected Monday that preparations were continuing for “an intensification of the fighting”. Last week, helium said that Israel was readying for the “total conquest” of Gaza.

Trump near the Middle East this week with nary ceasefire woody agreed, lone saying, “We’re going to find retired beauteous soon” erstwhile asked whether a woody was successful spot for the instrumentality of Israel’s captives.

Meanwhile, the Israeli paper Ha’aretz reported that Israel’s presumption was “rigid” and that the US had “lost interest”. A root told the paper that US envoy Steve Witkoff was “no longer involved”.

“He’s waiting to perceive what we want, and since we don’t privation anything, helium has thing near to do,” the root said.