Trump says U.S. will stop Gaza war as death toll reportedly hits 53,000

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Struggle to find nutrient successful Gaza arsenic assistance dwindles

Gaza doc says deficiency of nutrient and assistance has led to "catastrophic" situation 03:07

Abu Dhabi — President Trump said Friday that the United States would person the concern successful Gaza "taken attraction of," telling reporters that radical were starving successful the besieged Palestinian territory, echoing a informing that assistance agencies person repeated for months.

"We're looking astatine Gaza. And we're going to get that taken attraction of. A batch of radical are starving," the president told reporters.

The little comments came arsenic Mr. Trump concluded the last limb of a multi-day circuit of Arab nations successful the Middle East, including Qatar, which has been a cardinal spouse with the U.S. and Egypt successful trying to broker a ceasefire successful the war betwixt Israel and Hamas.

Israel has imposed a blockade for implicit 2 months connected Gaza, starring United Nations agencies and different humanitarian groups to pass of rapidly dwindling fuel, nutrient and medicine supplies successful the Palestinian territory that, earlier the war, was location to astir 2.4 cardinal people.

Israel has repeatedly denied that determination is simply a humanitarian situation successful the Gaza Strip, and it blames the suffering of the enclave's civilian colonisation wholly connected Hamas, which sparked the warfare with its unprecedented Oct. 7 2023 violent onslaught connected Israel.

Mr. Trump's remarks came a time aft U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced openness to immoderate caller ideas to bring assistance into Gaza, aft a U.S.- and Israeli-backed program was wide criticized, portion besides expressing interest implicit the humanitarian concern successful the territory.

Relentless Israeli strikes termination dozens successful Gaza

Gaza's civilian defence rescue bureau said Friday that 50 radical had been killed successful Israeli strikes connected the Palestinian territory since midnight.

"The fig of martyrs killed successful Israeli shelling targeting civilian homes successful the bluish Gaza Strip betwixt midnight and aboriginal this greeting has risen to 50... Our teams are inactive moving successful those areas," civilian defence authoritative Mohammed al-Mughayyir told AFP.

"The Israeli concern bombed the location adjacent to mine, hitting it straight portion its residents were inside," Yousef Al-Sultan, 40, from the al-Salatin area, westbound of Beit Lahia, told AFP, reporting "air strikes, artillery shelling and gunfire from quadcopter drones."

"There is simply a monolithic question of displacement among civilians. Fear and panic grip america successful the mediate of the night," helium said.

Head of the U.N. Children's Fund, Catherine Russell, said Friday successful a message posted connected societal media that Israel's operations successful Gaza had reportedly killed 45 children successful conscionable 2 days, which she called "unconscionable."

"This should daze the satellite but is mostly met with indifference," Russell wrote. "Nowhere is harmless for children successful Gaza. This fearfulness indispensable stop."

She warned that much than 1 cardinal children successful Gaza were astatine hazard of starvation, "deprived of food, h2o and medicine."

Food situation persists successful Gaza nether Israeli blockade

There was nary contiguous remark connected the latest strikes successful bluish Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces, but Israeli media said it was portion of a stepped-up cognition that would see caller crushed incursions into the area. The IDF has said since the opening of the warfare that it lone targets Hamas and different violent groups successful Gaza, which it accuses of hiding weapons and fighters successful civilian infrastructure.

Qatar and hostage families telephone connected Netanyahu to marque a deal

Hamas and allied groups seized 251 people, galore of them civilians, during the Oct. 7 onslaught and killed astir 1,200, according to Israeli officials. The hostages were brought backmost into Gaza, and astir person been released during 2 abstracted ceasefires. Israeli officials judge 58 stay successful captivity wrong Gaza, astir 20 of whom are inactive thought to beryllium alive.

The hostages' families person led protests for months demanding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu negociate a ceasefire with Hamas to unafraid the remaining captives' release, and they voiced caller interest connected Friday implicit the escalating subject operations successful Gaza, which they accidental puts their loved ones astatine expanding risk.

With President Trump present acceptable to reason a three-nation Middle East travel — which notably did not see a halt successful Israel — the families person ramped up unit connected Netanyahu to backmost the American leader's calls for a negotiated solution with Hamas.

"The hostages' families woke up this greeting with dense hearts and large interest successful airy of reports astir accrued attacks successful Gaza and the imminent decision of President Trump's sojourn to the region," the Hostages and Missing Families Forum enactment said successful a connection connected Friday. "We are successful melodramatic hours that volition find the aboriginal of our loved ones, the aboriginal of Israeli society, and the aboriginal of the Middle East. Missing this historical accidental would beryllium a resounding nonaccomplishment that volition beryllium remembered successful infamy forever. We telephone connected Prime Minister Netanyahu to articulation hands with President Trump's efforts, which volition pb archetypal and foremost to the merchandise of 58 hostages and to extended determination agreements. Time is moving out, the satellite is watching, and past volition remember."

Netanyahu's authorities has vowed to proceed the warfare successful Gaza until each of its goals are met. It says those goals see the merchandise of each remaining hostages, the "military and governmental decision of Hamas," and ensuring that Gaza "will nary longer airs a menace to Israel."

There was fleeting anticipation for a imaginable breakthrough successful long-running negotiations earlier this week erstwhile Hamas, successful a woody negotiated straight with the Trump administration, released the past surviving U.S. nationalist who had been among the hostages, Edan Alexander.

On Wednesday, arsenic President Trump visited the country, Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani lamented Israel's mounting battle successful Gaza connected the heels of Alexander's release, saying successful an interview with CNN that it raised doubts astir the prospects of ongoing diplomatic efforts.

"Unfortunately, Israeli absorption to this was a wide bombing the adjacent day," said al-Thani, adding that, on with "statements coming retired of the Israeli government" astir not ending the warfare "is fundamentally sending the awesome that we [Israel] are not funny successful negotiations."

The apical Qatari diplomat stressed that the country's negotiating squad remained engaged with each parties successful the conflict, and "we anticipation to spot immoderate progress," but helium cautioned: "I'm not definite if this advancement volition beryllium thing seen precise soon with this continuing behavior."

"If determination is nary willingness to prosecute successful meaningful negotiations, past however tin we scope the solution?" helium asked.

Thus acold the Trump medication has shown nary willingness to summation unit connected Netanyahu by constraining its captious subject assistance for Israel.

The Hamas-run Ministry of Health successful Gaza said Thursday that the decease toll successful the Palestinian enclave since the warfare began had reached 53,010, including 2,876 radical killed and astir 8,000 injured since Israel resumed crushed operations connected March 18, erstwhile it ended the past ceasefire.

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