Cairo (AP) – Israeli attacks in Gaza City and in a refugee camp killed more than 40 people, including 19 women and children, health authorities indicated on Sunday, day when several European countries and allied leaders of the United States acted to recognize a Palestinian state.
Health officials of the Shifa hospital, where most of the bodies were taken, said that among the dead there were 14 people who died in a night attack on Saturday that hit a residential block in the south of the city. Health staff said a nurse who worked at the hospital was among the dead, along with his wife and three children.
Another attack that aimed a group of people in front of a clinic in the Bureij refugee camp in Center of Gaza killed at least eight Palestinians, according to the Al-Awda hospital. The dead include four children and two women, the hospital said. 22 other people were injured, he added.
Israel did not comment on the attacks.
Protests against war in Israel
The new Israeli operation, which began this week, even more intensifies a conflict that has shaken the Middle East and probably moves the possibility of any cessation to the fire. The Israeli army, who has urged the Palestinians to leave, has not given a calendar for the offensive, but there are indications that it could last months. Israel says that the objective of the operation is to press Hamas to free the hostages and surrender.
Before the UN General Assembly, Peace activists in Israel have praised the planned recognition of a Palestinian State. On Sunday, a group of more than 60 Jewish and Arab organizations of peace and reconciliation, which represent about 1,000 activists, including some veteran organizations that promote peace and coexistence, known as the coalition is time, requested the end of war, the liberation of hostages and the recognition of a Palestinian state.
“We refuse to live forever for the sword. The UN decision offers a historical opportunity to move from a deadly trap to life, from an endless messianic war to a future of security and freedom for both peoples,” the coalition said in a video statement.
Tens of thousands of people protested on Saturday night, in Israel to ask for the end of war and a hostage agreement.
However, a ceasefire is still elusive. Israeli bombing during the last 23 months has killed more than 65,000 people in Gaza, destroyed vast areas of the strip, displaced to about 90% of the population and caused a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. Experts have said that Ciudad de Gaza is experiencing famine.
Netanyahu argues that a Palestinian state “will not happen”
On Sunday, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom announced the formal recognition of the status of Palestinian state. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the measure intends to “revive the hope of peace for the Palestinians and Israelis.” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas celebrated the announcement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argues that the establishment of a Palestinian State “will not happen.” In a statement after the coordinated initiative of the nations of the Commonwealth of Nations was announced, foreign leaders accused of giving Hamas a “prize”.
“It won’t happen,” he said. “A Palestinian State will not be established west of the Jordan River.”
Netanyahu added that he will announce Israel’s response after a trip next week to the United States, where he will meet with President Donald Trump in the White House.
Other outstanding western countries are preparing to recognize the status of the Palestinian State at the meeting of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, including France.
French president Emmanuel Macron criticized Israel’s behavior in his war against Hamas, describing it as “failure” because the group continues to recruit more combatants. In an interview for the CBS chain on Sunday, Macron said that, although Israel has managed to kill Hamas leaders, he has not been able to dismantle him during the almost two -year conflict in Gaza. Macron told CBS that Israel’s approach undermines the country’s credibility by killing civilians, and that war creates “an unsustainable security framework throughout the region.”
Terrible humanitarian crisis
In a statement on Sunday, the army said that he killed Majed Abu Selmiya, who, according to them, was a sniper of the Military Wing of Hamas and was preparing more attacks in the area of Ciudad de Gaza, without providing evidence.
The alleged militiaman is the brother of the director of the Shifa hospital, the doctor Mohamed Abu Selmiya, who described the accusations of lie and said that Israel was trying to justify the murder of civilians. The Selmiya doctor told The Associated Press that his 57 -year -old brother suffered from hypertension, diabetes and had vision problems.
While the attacks continue, Israel has ordered hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who take refuge in Ciudad de Gaza who move south to what calls a humanitarian area and opened another corridor to the south of the city for two days this week to allow more people to leave.
The Palestinians left the city of Gaza by car and foot, although many are not willing to be uprooted again, they are too weak to leave or cannot afford the transfer.
Throughout the coastal route of Wadi Gaza, those too exhausted to continue stopped to recover their breath and give their children a very necessary rest of the difficult trip.
Help groups have warned that forcing thousands of people to evacuate will aggravate the serious humanitarian crisis. They have claimed a ceasefire so that the help can reach those who need it.
Papa denounces “forced exile” of Palestinians
Pope Leo XIV criticized on Sunday what he called the “forced exile” of the Palestinians of their homes in Gaza, saying that there is no future for the “martyred” Gaza Strip based on violence and revenge.
During his Sunday blessing, León made another call for peace and expressed his appreciation for the work of active Catholic organizations in the aid to the Palestinians, who had representatives present in the Plaza de San Pedro.
The families of the hostages still retained by Hamas also accuse Netanyahu of condemning their loved ones to death by continuing to fight instead of negotiating an end to war.
Israel in conversations with Syria
Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting that Israel’s victories in Lebanon against Hezbollah “have opened a window for the possibility of peace with our northern neighbors.”
“We are having conversations with the Syrians – there are some progress, but it is still a vision for the future,” he said.
Israel has occupied parts of southwest Syria since the overthrow of the then Syrian President Bashar Assad in December. Relations with the new Syrian government have been tense, with Israel carrying out air attacks during the summer in what they say were steps to protect the Drusa community of Syria.
The interim president of Syria, Ahmad Al-Sharaa, said in an interview on Syrian state television on September 12 that negotiations with Israel for a security agreement are still ongoing. He hopes that Israeli troops will return to where they were before the fall of the Assad government under a separation agreement in 1974.
“Israel considered the fall of the regime as the withdrawal of Syria from the 1974 agreement, although Syria showed its commitment from the beginning,” said Al-Sharaa.
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The Associated Press journalists Nicole Winfield in Rome, Italy, Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut, Josef Federman in Jerusalem and Samuel Petrequin in Paris contributed to this office.
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This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
This article was published by Samy Magdy on 2025-09-21 05:22:00
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