Israeli troops have massacred more than 90 Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip after seven regime soldiers were killed in the besieged territory in an ambush.
At least 31 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza so far this morning, local reports cited sources in hospitals in the territory as saying on Thursday.
Nine of the victims were killed in the bombing of a school housing displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, while three more were killed as they waited near aid distribution points.
Two people were killed in a bombing of the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, with another person killed in an attack on Jabalia, farther north.
In total, during the past 24 hours, Israeli forces have killed more than 90 Palestinians in Gaza, hospital sources said.
The massacre came after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas announced that its fighters had killed seven Israeli soldiers in an ambush in southern Gaza on Wednesday.
“Funerals and the corpses of enemy soldiers will become a regular occurrence, God willing, as long as the occupation continues its criminal war against our people,” said Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing, Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.
Israeli minister calls for total halt of Gaza aid
On Thursday, Israel’s far-right minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, denounced humanitarian aid allowed into Gaza as “an absolute disgrace,” calling for “not a temporary halt to ‘humanitarian’ aid, but a complete stop.”
“When I warned repeatedly, and was unfortunately the only one who voted a month and a half ago against bringing aid, I was certain it would grant Hamas a lifeline,” he said in a post on X.
Ben Gvir claimed that stopping aid would accelerate what he called Israel’s “victory,” pledging to push for another cabinet vote on the matter in the next session.
Hamas has reiterated its core conditions for a deal with Tel Aviv— a permanent ceasefire, full withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, the unrestricted flow of humanitarian aid, the start of reconstruction, and a serious prisoner exchange agreement.
