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Palestinians inspect the remains of a displacement structure deed by an Israeli airstrike overnight, sidesplitting 10 members of the Abu Al-Rous family, successful Khan Younis, confederate Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
DEIR EL-BALAH – Israeli airstrikes crossed Gaza killed astatine slightest 17 radical aboriginal Friday including children, infirmary workers said, arsenic the caller U.S. ambassador to Israel made his archetypal nationalist quality successful Jerusalem.
Among the dormant were 10 radical successful the municipality Jabaliya exile camp, including 8 from the aforesaid house, according to the Indonesian Hospital, which received the bodies. In the confederate metropolis of Khan Younis, 7 radical were killed, 1 of them a large woman, according to Nasser Hospital, wherever the bodies were brought.
The strikes came a time aft much than 2 twelve radical died successful Gaza arsenic Israel ramps up attacks, pressuring Hamas to instrumentality the hostages and disarm.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee connected Friday appeared astatine the Western Wall, the holiest Jewish supplication tract successful Jerusalem’s Old City. Huckabee inserted a supplication into the wall, which helium said was handwritten by U.S. President Donald Trump. "Those are his initials, D.T.,“ said Huckabee portion showing the enactment to the media.
In his archetypal enactment arsenic ambassador, Huckabee said Trump told him to instrumentality his supplication and commune for the bid of Jerusalem, helium said. Huckabee besides said each effort was being made to bring the remaining hostages held by Hamas home. A one-time statesmanlike hopeful, Huckabee has acknowledged his past enactment for Israel’s close to annex the West Bank and incorporated its Palestinian colonisation into Israel but said it would not beryllium his “prerogative” to transportation retired that policy.
During his archetypal term, Trump recognized Jerusalem arsenic Israel’s superior implicit Palestinian objections and moved the embassy from Tel Aviv. Palestinian question the eastbound portion of the metropolis that Israel captured successful the 1967 Mideast warfare arsenic their aboriginal capital.
Huckabee's accomplishment comes astatine a pivotal clip successful the 18-month war, arsenic planetary mediators including the U.S. are trying to get a breached ceasefire backmost connected track.
Israel is demanding that Hamas merchandise much hostages astatine the commencement of immoderate caller ceasefire and yet hold to disarm and permission the territory. Israel has said it plans inhabit ample “security zones” wrong Gaza.
Khalil al-Hayya, caput of Hamas’ negotiating delegation, said Thursday the radical had rejected Israel’s latest connection on those lines. He reiterated Hamas’ stance that it volition instrumentality hostages lone successful speech for the merchandise of much Palestinian prisoners, a afloat Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a lasting truce, arsenic called for successful the now-defunct ceasefire statement reached successful January.
Hamas presently holds 59 hostages, 24 of whom are believed to beryllium alive.
The warfare began erstwhile Hamas-led militants attacked confederate Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251. Most of the hostages person since been released successful ceasefire agreements oregon different deals.
Israel’s violative has since killed implicit 51,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not separate betwixt civilians and combatants. The warfare has destroyed immense parts of Gaza and astir of its nutrient accumulation capabilities. The warfare has displaced astir 90% of the population, with hundreds of thousands of radical surviving successful structure camps and bombed-out buildings.
On Thursday, assistance groups raised the alarm implicit Israel’s blockade of of Gaza, wherever it has barred introduction of each nutrient and different goods for much than six weeks. Thousands of children person go malnourished, and astir radical are hardly eating 1 repast a time arsenic stocks dwindle, the United Nations said.
Israel's Defense Minister says the blockade is 1 of the “central unit tactics” against Hamas, which Israel accuses of siphoning disconnected assistance to support its rule. Aid workers contradict determination is important diversion of aid, saying the U.N. intimately monitors distribution. Rights groups person called it a “starvation tactic.”
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Khaled reported from Cairo. Associated Press writer Sam Mednick successful Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.
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