“The pulverising of Gaza now ranks amongst the worst assaults on any civilian population in our time and age. Each day we see more dead children and new depths of suffering for the innocent people enduring this hell,” NRC’s Secretary-General, Jan Egeland, said in a statement.
“The resumption of the military operation and its expansion further in southern Gaza is repeating horrors from past weeks,” UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, said in a statement.
According to the report, Turkiye, which supports a two-state solution to the decades-old conflict, has sharply criticised Israel over its campaign in Gaza, launched in response to militant group Hamas’s rampage on 7 October. More than 15,500 people have been killed in the Israeli air and ground attacks, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
In a statement, the company said the telecom service was cut due to the disconnection of the main elements of the network in light of the ongoing Israeli shelling across Gaza.
"It #MustStopNow! We are asking governments around the world to pressure Israel to stop the attacks on people in #Gaza and end the siege," the French-based humanitarian organization wrote on X.
The Qatar-based channel quoted Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani as saying that Doha will continue its efforts to facilitate a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
In a written statement published by Gaza’s Interior Ministry, civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said Israeli forces have been targeting their teams in the enclave constantly since Oct. 7.
“Yesterday [Friday], Hamas violated the operational pause, and in response, the Israel Defense Forces resumed combat,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
“If there is fighting there is indeed a higher likelihood that they might wish to flee further south and beyond the border,” UNRWA quoted its Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini as saying in an interview by British daily The Guardian.
After the week-long temporary ‘humanitarian pause’ between Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas ended yesterday, Israel resumed its attacks and revived hostilities in the Gaza Strip by targeting multiple civilian areas within it.
"The statistics announced by the heads of the United Nations and its various departments that work in the Middle East are appalling, the number of dead civilians, " he said in response to an Anadolu reporter’s question at a news conference in Skopje on results of the Organisation for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE) meeting.
“The Israeli army bombed the Halima Mosque, which led to its complete destruction, in addition to widespread destruction in the targeted area,” an eyewitness told Anadolu.
The march began after the Friday prayer in front of the Al-Husseini Mosque in the center of the capital, Amman, and proceeded to Palm Square, an Anadolu correspondent reported.