Twenty killed in Gaza, ceasefire hopes dim

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Twenty ******* in Gaza, ceasefire hopes dim

******** forces have stepped up bombardment of the Gaza Strip ******** at least 23 people, ************ medics said, with over half the deaths in northern areas where the army has waged a month-long campaign it says is to prevent ****** from regrouping.

Palestinians said the new aerial and ground offensives and forced evacuations were “******* cleansing” aimed at emptying two north Gaza towns and a camp of their populations to create buffer zones. ******* denies this, saying it is fighting ****** militants who launch attacks from there.

Medics said at least 13 Palestinians were ******* in separate attacks on houses in Beit Lahiya town and Jabalia, the largest of the enclave’s eight historic ******** camps and the focus of the army’s new military offensive. The rest were ******* in separate ******** air strikes in Gaza City and the southern areas.

******* has not commented on its military actions on Sunday in northern Gaza.

On Saturday, the ******** military sent a new army division to Jabalia to join two other operating battalions, a statement said. It said that hundreds of ************ militants have so far been ******* in the “battles” since the raid began on October 5.

Meanwhile, COGAT, the ******** army’s ************ civilian affairs agency, said it facilitated the launch of the second round of a polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza on Saturday and that 58,604 children have received a dose.

The Gaza health ministry said *******’s military offensive in northern Gaza was stopping them from vaccinating thousands of children in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya, and Beit Hanoun.

It said one clinic came under ******** ***** while parents brought their children for the anti-polio dose on Saturday, where four children were injured.

The head World Health Organization said in a statement the incident took place despite a humanitarian pause agreed upon by the two warring parties, ******* and ******, to allow the vaccination campaign.

“A @WHO team was at the site just before. This *******, during humanitarian pause, jeopardises the sanctity of health protection for children and may deter parents from bringing their children for vaccination,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X on Saturday.

“These vital humanitarian-area-specific pauses must be absolutely respected. Ceasefire!,” he said.

The ******** military has not commented on Tedros’ remarks.

A larger ceasefire that would end the war and see the release of ******** and foreign hostages held captive in Gaza as well as Palestinians jailed by ******* ******** remote due to disagreements between ****** and *******.

****** wants an agreement to end the war permanently, refusing recent offers for temporary truces, while ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says war can only end when ****** is eradicated.

The war erupted after ******-led militants attacked ******* on October 7, 2023, ******** some 1200 people and taking 251 hostages back to Gaza, according to ******** tallies.

*******’s retaliatory offensives have ******* more than 43,000 Palestinians and reduced most of Gaza to rubble.

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