By Safiye Karabacak and Muhammed Emin Canik
ISTANBUL (AA): At least 54 Palestinians were killed and dozen others injured in Israeli air strikes on the blocked Gaza Strip soon after the humanitarian pause ended on Friday morning. Israelis bombed with airforce and artillary in north, central and southern Gaza as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left Israel after apparently requesting Israel Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to “minimise” civilian o
“Within two hours after the humanitarian pause ended, the death toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks climbed to 54,” the Ministry of Health in Gaza said in a statement.
“Dozens of people, mostly women and children, were injured,” the ministry added.
The pause between Israel and Hamas, which went into effect on Nov. 24, ended on Friday morning.
Heavy gunfire and Israeli artillery shelling in the eastern Gaza Strip resumed soon after the humanitarian pause ended, according to an Anatolian correspondent on the ground.
Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian factions are also ongoing in the northern and central Gaza Strip, the correspondent also reported.
The government in Gaza held the international community responsible for “the continuous Israeli war crimes” in the Gaza Strip, as Israel resumed attacks on the enclave soon after the humanitarian pause ended on Friday morning.
“The occupying Israeli army has resumed its brutal war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip,” the government’s media office in Gaza said in a statement.
The Israeli army targeted many houses and civilian areas in the Gaza Strip, the office said, stressing: “The international community bears responsibility for the continuation of Israel’s war against the Gaza Strip.”
“The international community, especially the United States, US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, are responsible for the crimes of the Israeli occupation and its brutal war against civilians, children and women in Gaza,” it added.
15,000 Palestinians including 6,000 children have been killed in Gaza by Israeli bombardment and 1.8 million displaced since Ocober 7. 1,200 Israelis have been killed on October 7, accoding to Israeli army.
[Photo: Young girl crying seeing dead body of her family member Abdul Aziz Al-Rantisi killed by Israeli bombing is brought to Nassr hospital aftr humanitarian pause in Khan Yunis Gaza on 1 12 23. Photojournalist: Belal Khaled /AA]
