Occupied Al Quds: At least twenty-one people have been martyred in the most recent Israeli attacks.
Meanwhile, United Nations’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric has said that more than one million people in central and southern Gaza did not receive any food rations in August.
In a statement, he said the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains beyond catastrophic.
9 killed in two Israeli bombings in Gaza City
At least three Palestinians were reportedly killed and five others injured in an early morning Israeli attack on a house in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, the Palestinian state news agency, Wafa, reports.
Six people were killed and five wounded in an earlier Israeli bombing in the city’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, Wafa added.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
urged both Israel and Hamas to finalise a Gaza truce, standing by US assessments that 90 percent of a deal was ready.
Blinken said that the US would be offering further ideas in coming days through mediators Egypt and Qatar in hopes of sealing an agreement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Fox News on Thursday denied a US official’s assessment that 90 percent of a deal was ready, saying “it’s not close.”
But Blinken repeated the assessment at a news conference during a visit to Haiti, saying, “I think based on what I’ve seen, 90 percent is agreed.”
“It’s really incumbent on both parties to get to yes on these remaining issues,” Blinken said.
