Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip – Local hospitals said that the Israeli strikes and the shooting killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including people who have tents or seek a rare food.
The Israeli Defense Minister warned that Gaza City can be destroyed in a new military operation, perhaps a few days away, even with the spread of famine there.
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Relief groups have long warned that the war, which was ignited by Hamas on October 7, 2023, was an attack, and months of Israeli restrictions on the food and medical supplies entering Gaza caused hunger.
Israel refused to declare data -based famine as a “explicit lie.” The ceasefire efforts are suspended as the brokers are waiting for the next steps for Israel.
Women and children were hit and killed in tents
Israeli strikes have killed at least 17 people in southern Gaza, more than half of them, women and children, according to the morgue records and health officials at Nasser Hospital. The officials said the strikes targeted the tents surrounding the displaced in Khan Yunis.
“Oud, why did you leave me?” A young boy asked his brother’s body cabbage.
One of the sad relatives, Hekmat Foujo, appealed to the armistice.
“We want to rest,” Fuju said through her tears. “ Get some mercy on us. “
The Palestinians carry bags of flour from a humanitarian aid convoy on the outskirts of Beit Lahia, north of Gaza, on Saturday, August 23, 2025.
(AP Photo/abdel Kareem Hana)
In the north of Gaza, the Israeli shooting was killed at least five goods from the good aid near the Zikim crossing with Israel, where the United Nations and other truck caravans enter the region.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said that the photographer Khaled Al -Muhajoun was killed while covering the events at the Zikim crossing, and confirmed that he was targeting the Israeli forces. The local Palestine TV confirmed his death.
Eleven people were killed in attacks elsewhere, according to Palestinian hospitals and red.
The Israeli army said it was not aware of a blow to Khan Yunis on this site and was looking into other incidents.
AP journalists have seen chaos on the roads that lead to the help of delivery, and there were almost daily reports on the Israeli forces that shoot relief seekers. The Israeli army says it shoots shots if people approach the forces or pose a threat.
Brave shooting and crowds of food
Muhammad Sada was among the thousands who were looking for food in the Zikim region – and one of the many who left empty -handed. He cited “huge numbers of people”, filming fires and “trucks that pass over people.”
Carry some bags of food, such as lentils and flour. Others carried the wounded, including on a wooden podium. They moved the fetus and war ponds, as temperatures reached above 92 degrees Fahrenheit (33 ° C).
The famine report said on Friday by the classification of integrated food security that nearly half a million people – about a quarter of Gaza population – face disastrous hunger.
The rare permit came after Israel imposed a two -month blockade on Gaza earlier this year, then it resumed some access to a new resource for US -backed private aid, which is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
In response to global anger at the pictures of comic children, Israel also allowed the new air and surrender through the Earth, but the United Nations and the others say it is far from that.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms that it allowed sufficient assistance to enter during the war, while accusing Hamas of the starvation of the hostages it carries.
An increase in Israeli air strikes this month
With already active ground forces on the outskirts of Gaza City, the military operation can begin within days in an area of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Israel says that Gaza City is still the stronghold of Hamas, with a network of armed tunnels.
Doctors of the Relief Group Without Borders, or MSF, said its clinics around Gaza City see large numbers of patients while people flee. Caroline Willyn, the MSF project coordinator there, has noticed a noticeable increase in air strikes since early August.
She told AP: “Those who have not moved are wondering what they should do,” she told AP. “People want to stay, they have been displaced indefinitely before, but they also know that at some point it will be very dangerous to stay.”
By stopping efforts, awaiting Israel’s response
Many Israelis fear that the attack on Gaza City can calm the twenty hostages of those believed to have survived since 2023. It is believed that 30 others have died. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis protested a week ago to end a deal to end the fighting and bring everyone home.
“Anyone who really wants to bring the hostages to the home does not divorce a ground invasion of Gaza,” said Yutam Cohen, brother of Nimrod Cohen, before a weekly march in Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu said on Thursday that he ordered the officials to start immediate negotiations to release the hostages and end the war on Israel’s conditions. It was not clear whether Israel would return to the talks in which the United States, Egypt and Qatar mediate after Hamas said it had accepted a new proposal from the Arab mediators.
Hamas said it would launch the hostages in exchange for ending the war, but it refuses to disarm without establishing a Palestinian state.
US President Donald Trump has expressed his frustration with Hamas’s position, indicating that the armed group is less interested in making deals with a few hostages alive.
“I actually think (hostages) is safer than many ways if I entered and enters quickly and did that,” Trump told reporters on Friday.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that at least 62,622 Palestinians were killed in the war, including the missing persons who have now confirmed dead by a special judicial committee in the ministry.
The ministry said that the number of deaths related to malnutrition increased by eight to 281.
Israeli protest against the far -right security minister
A small group of Israelis protested against the right-wing National Security Minister, Itamar ben-GVIR, walking to a synagogue in KFAR MALAL, north of Tel Aviv. Videos showed the minister arguing with the demonstrators.
“We do not want it in our village. Our message is to return the hostages,” said one of the demonstrators, Bawaz Levinstein, to AP.
Ben-Gvir is a major partner in Netanyahu’s political alliance and a strong opponent to reach a deal with Hamas, which hostage families see the only way to secure the launch of loved ones.
Maggie mentioned from Cairo. The Associated Press Press Sam Midnik in Jerusalem and Michel Price in Washington contributed to this report.
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