The United Nations said on Tuesday it was “deeply concerned” about ongoing Israeli bombings of the central Gaza Strip and called on Israeli forces to take all possible measures to protect civilians.
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“We are deeply concerned about the ongoing bombardment of the central Gaza Strip by Israeli forces. (…) All attacks must strictly respect the principles of international humanitarian law, in particular distinction (between civilians and military), proportionality and precaution,” said the spokesman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Seif Magango, in a press release.
“It is particularly worrying that this latest heavy bombardment comes after Israeli forces ordered residents of the southern Gaza Strip to move towards the central Gaza Strip and Tal al-Sultan in Rafah.”
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On Tuesday, the army said it had struck more than a hundred Hamas targets in the past day.
She published images of her soldiers, accompanied by tanks, advancing on foot between the dusty ruins as shots rang out.
Hamas released footage showing militants opening fire and blowing up an Israeli tank.
International calls to silence the guns and mourn the heavy civilian casualties in the besieged Palestinian territories have multiplied.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu estimated that peace could only be achieved if Gaza was “demilitarized” and “deradicalized” more than two and a half months after the start of the war, which was triggered by a bloody attack on October 7 by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli soil.