As expectations for a US-announced ceasefire deal dwindled, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to increase pressure on Hamas, prompting Israel to continue its airstrikes on Gaza on Wednesday.
Ismail Haniyeh, the political head of Hamas, charged that Israel was purposefully obstructing talks for a truce and hostage release agreement because it does not want the war to finish.
The Israeli military claimed to have struck “military structures, terrorist infrastructure, terrorist cells, and rigged structures” with 25 attacks in a single day.
Netanyahu, who has repeatedly vowed to eradicate Hamas, insisted Tuesday that despite mounting pressure, there would be no let-up in Israel’s campaign against the militants.
“This is exactly the time to increase the pressure even more, to bring home all the hostages — the living and the dead — and to achieve all the war objectives,” he said.
He rammed home the point in a speech to parliament, saying: “We have got them by the throat; we are on the road to absolute victory.”
52 individuals, mostly women and children, had been killed in Israeli strikes over the course of the previous day, according to the health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza.
According to the territory’s civil defense service, three attacks on a UN-run school, a residence, and a mosque in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza have killed thirty people.
Later on Wednesday, it announced that Israeli activity had killed 15 people in central and northern Gaza; in the meantime, the health ministry claimed that three children and a mother had died close to Khan Yunis.
According to a medical source at Nasser Hospital, two persons were killed in Israeli bombing of the Shakush region in southern Gaza, which is northwest of Rafah.
