US President Donald Trump’s Middle East tour did not include a stop in Israel.
Meanwhile, Israel has continued to ramp up its offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza, where dozens of people have been killed in recent days.
At least 64 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the Palestinian enclave overnight, hospitals in Gaza said Friday morning.
Gaza’s civil defense agency, meanwhile, said 56 people had been killed since midnight, while medics said dozens more were wounded.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strikes.
On Thursday, Palestinian sources said dozens of people were killed in Israeli attacks, with some reports saying more than 120 people had died in recent days.
The violence has dashed hopes that Trump’s tour of the region could yield another ceasefire, after a two-month truce between Israel and Hamas collapsed in March, or see humanitarian aid into Gaza restored. , stopping medical and food supplies from entering the enclave, to pressure Hamas into releasing the 57 hostages the Islamist group seized in its terror attack on October 7, 2023.
On Friday morning, Trump acknowledged that “a lot of people are starving” in the besieged enclave.
“We’re looking at Gaza. And we’re going to get that taken care of,” Trump said in Abu Dhabi.
The relatives of the Israeli hostages, meanwhile, have repeated their calls for Israeli Prime Minister to reach a deal with Hamas and release their captive family members, saying that the renewed military action could endanger the hostages’ lives.
Netanyahu has vowed to push ahead with further escalating Israel’s war to destroy the Hamas militant group, which Israel, the United States, the European Union and other countries designate as a terrorist organization.
In comments released Tuesday by Netanyahu’s office, the prime minister said Israeli forces were days away from entering Gaza “with great strength to complete the mission … It means destroying Hamas.”
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