Jerusalem:
Israel said on Wednesday that its soldiers were seizing the “large areas” in Gaza and making the Palestinian region “small and more isolated”, at least 23 people died on a residential block as an air strike.
Defense Minister Israel Katz’s comments come in a renewed aggressive aggressive by the army over the war-butter region, displacing hundreds of thousands of people, while a support blockade has revived the famine spectator for its 2.4 million people.
French President Emmanuel Macron meanwhile said that France has planned to recognize a Palestinian kingdom in the “coming months”, a step that risks to Israel, which emphasizes such steps by foreign states.
Katz stated that “large areas are being seized and are being added to the security areas of Israel, making Gaza small and more isolated”, during the journey of the newly declared Morg corridor between the southern cities of Rafa and Khan Younis.
Katz insisted that Israel will continue to increase the pressure on Gaza “until the hostages are freed and we are defeated”.
Katz also said that Israel was encouraging plans for “voluntary migration … … according to the US President’s vision, which we are working to implement”.
US President Donald Trump proposed a plan to develop Gaza in “Riviera of Middle East”, displacing his population elsewhere earlier this year.
Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency meanwhile said that an Israeli air strike on a residential building in Gaza City killed at least 23 people, most of them, children or women, while the army said it targeted the “senior Hamas” terrorist.
The strike took place in Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza city, agency spokesperson Mahmood Basal told AFP.
“People are still trapped under the rubble,” he said.
– ‘torn to pieces’ –
Ayub Salim, a resident of 26 -year -old Shujai, told AFP that the area was killed with “many missiles” and “congested with tents, displaced people and houses”.
“Dust and massive destruction filled the whole place, we could not see anything, just screams and nervousness of the people.”
Salim said that the deceased were “torn into pieces”.
A crew of the Gaza Civil Defense Agency reached the spot, just to find many people trapped under the rubble, a rescueer said.
“This house was the house of many people, who believed that they were safe. It was blown on their heads,” the rescued Ibrahim Abu al-Arsh told AFP.
“We took out the remains of women and children. Still people are buried under the rubble,” he said.
The AFP footage shows that the first respondents and neighbors broke through a full -storey concrete floor, which fell into the strike and shown the trapped residents.
Folded, swinging a sledaimmer through the hard surface, they eventually broke a hole, through which the children’s body was removed and wrapped in dusty blankets.
– ‘Move towards recognition’ –
When asked about the strike by the AFP, the Israeli army said that a senior Hamas terrorist responsible for planning and executing terrorist attacks from the region said. It did not name the target.
Hamas condemned the strike as one of the most heinous acts of the massacre “.
Israel resumed intensive attacks on the Gaza Strip on 18 March, ending the two -month ceasefire with Hamas. Efforts to restore the Trus have failed so far.
The Ministry of Health in Hamas-Run area said on Wednesday that at least 1,482 Palestinians have been killed in the operation of the new Israel, the total death has increased to 50,846 since the onset of the war.
Hamas’s October 2023 attack led to the war, resulting in AFP Tally, based on Israeli’s official figures, 1,218 people were killed in favor of Israel.
The strike arrived as CIA chief John Ratcliffe visited Jerusalem on Wednesday, before the US holds nuclear talks with Iran and continued amidst efforts to revive a ceasefire in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Macron said that France could recognize a Palestinian state in early June.
Macron told France 5 television, “We should move towards identity, and we will do so in the coming months.”
“I believe it will be right at some point and because I want to participate in a collective dynamic, who should also allow all those who defend Palestine who are to identify Israel in turn, which many of them do not do so,” he said.
Minister of State for Palestinian Verson Aghbackian Shahin for Foreign Affairs told AFP that France’s Palestinian state recognition “Palestinian would be a step in the right direction to suit the rights of the people and the rights of two state solutions”.
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