Separate assaults murder seven in Gaza. According to UN agency, “two weeks” of food supplies remain.
According to Hamas-affiliated media on Thursday, the latest group estimate to have been murdered since Israel launched operations in the enclave, Abdel-Latif Al-Qanoua has been killed in an Israeli bombing in northern Gaza.
Al-Qanoua perished, according Al-Aqsa TV, after his tent was attacked in Jabalia. Medical sources claimed that separate attacks killed at least six in Gaza City and one in southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis; the same strike wounded numerous more.
Israel assassinated Salah al-Bardaweel, another senior leader, and Ismail Barhoum, a member of the political office of Hamas earlier this week.
According to Hamas sources, Bardaweel and Barhoum were members of the 20-member Hamas decision-making body, the political office, 11 of which had been murdered since the start of the conflict in late 2023.
Israel broke a two-month-old truce last week by starting ground operations and airstrikes, therefore putting further pressure on Hamas to release the last of its captives.
According to Gaza’s health ministry, at least 830 people—more than half of them women and children—have died since Israel started significant combat assaults in Gaza on March 18.
Hamas claimed Israel was compromising efforts by mediators to reach a long-term agreement to stop the bloodshed.
Foods in supply
With just two weeks’ supply of food remaining in Gaza, where “hundreds of thousands of people” are at risk of extreme hunger and malnutrition, the UN’s World Food Prograřmme issued warnings on Thursday.
The Rome-based agency stated in a statement, “WFP has approximately 5,700 tonnes of food stocks left in Gaza — enough to support WFP operations for a maximum of two weeks.”
On Thursday WFP announced that it and others in the food security industry have been “unable to bring new food supplies into Gaza for more than three weeks”.
“Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are again at risk of severe hunger and malnutrition as humanitarian food supplies in the Strip dwindle and borders remain closed to aid,” it stated.
WFP said, ” meanwhile the increase of military activity in Gaza is seriously interfering with food assistance operations and daily risk the life of aid workers.”
The agency said it will “distribute as much food as possible, as quickly as possible,” given the worsening security conditions and fast displacement of people. It is cutting personal allowances so the agency may feed more people generally.
