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The Israeli military has killed a pregnant woman and her unborn baby near the Shati refugee camp as it continued its large-scale assault on Gaza City, with several strikes targeting civilians.<\/p>\n
Medical sources at Gaza City\u2019s al-Shifa Hospital said that another child was also killed in the attack on a house near the camp on Monday, according to the Wafa news agency.<\/p>\n
The military also continued to pummel the Zeitoun and Sabra<\/span> neighbourhoods in the south of the city, where more than 1,000 buildings have been levelled since Israel began its push to take over the urban centre last month, killing 10 people on Monday.<\/p>\n Earlier in the day, scenes of chaos played out at a crowded market on Gaza City\u2019s Nasser Street, with locals scattering in all directions amid the debris after an Israeli attack, which killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others.<\/p>\n Reporting from the scene, Al Jazeera\u2019s Moath al-Kahlout said people were panic-stricken.<\/p>\n \u201cThey don\u2019t know what to do and where to go. They are trying so hard to find a safer place, but the Israeli army keep attacking every corner in the city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Further south, in Deir el-Balah, Israel targeted a group of citizens inside Al-Mazra\u2019a School. Later, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital announced the death of Anas Saeed Abu Mughsib, Wafe reported.<\/p>\n Medical sources said that in total, at least 59 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the Strip on Monday.<\/p>\n Already displaced by war multiple times, Gaza City residents now face the twin threats of war and famine.<\/p>\n Hunger caused by Israel\u2019s months-long blockade led to the deaths of three infants on Monday. Children account for more than a third of the nearly 350 deaths from hunger and starvation in the enclave since Israel\u2019s war began in October 2023.<\/p>\n Authorities say the number of humanitarian aid trucks that Israel has allowed into the Strip in the last month has only met 15 percent of the starving population\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n Yet, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a report in August from the world\u2019s leading authority on food crises, the Integrated Food Security Classification (PIC), that famine was under way in Gaza City, calling it an \u201coutright lie\u201d.<\/p>\n On Monday, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs David Lammy acknowledged the United Nations-backed IPC declaration, saying he was \u201coutraged\u201d by Israel for not allowing enough aid to enter Gaza.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not a natural disaster, it\u2019s a man-made famine in the 21st century,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need a massive, massive humanitarian response to prevent more deaths, crucial NGOs, humanitarians and health workers allowed to operate, and stockpiles of aid on Gaza\u2019s borders released.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in Israel, mourners gathered for the separate funerals of Idan Shtivi and Ilan Weiss, captives taken from Israel during the October 2023 Hamas attack, whose remains were recovered in an Israeli military operation in Gaza last week.<\/p>\n Some expressed anger at the government for not reaching a deal with Hamas to end the fighting and return the remaining captives.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a horror, it\u2019s profound sadness and grief beyond words to describe the anger, the insult to the hostages, the insult to the fallen, the insult to the soldiers sent once again to Gaza,\u201d mourner Ruti Taro told The Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n \u201cNo one knows why, except for the power-hungry ruler,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Israeli news site Ynet reported on Monday that Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir had warned of the implications of Netanyahu\u2019s intention<\/span> to take over Gaza without making any post-war plans.<\/p>\n \u201cYou are heading to a military government,\u201d Zamir reportedly told a meeting of the Israeli security cabinet late on Sunday. \u201cYour plan is leading us there. Understand the implications\u201d.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s war on Gaza has so far killed more than 63,000 Palestinians. About one million inhabitants of Gaza City, many of whom have already been displaced multiple times, are now being forced out under sustained Israeli attacks, with no safe zones to flee to in the enclave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018Man-made famine in the 21st Century\u2019<\/h2>\n
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