At least 13 people have been killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes on refugee camps in central Gaza, Palestinian൩ health officials say. The strikes, which occurred overnight into Saturday, come as efforts to secure a ceasefire in the regi🔴on continue in Cairo.
Among the dead in Nuseirat Refugee Camp and Burei♍j Refugee Camp were three children and one woman, according to Palestinian ambulance teams that transported the bodies to the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital.
Earlier, a medical team delivered a live baby from a Palestinian woman killed in an airstrike that hit her home in N๊useirat late Thursday evening.
Ola al-Kurd, 25, was killed along with six others in the blast, but was quickly rushed by emergency workers to Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza in the hope of saving the unborn child. Hours la🐠ter, doctors told The Associated Press that a baby boy had been delivered.
The still-unnamed newborn is ﷺstable but has suff♑ered from a shortage of oxygen and has been placed in an incubator, said Dr. Khalil Dajran on Friday.
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Ola's “husband and a relative ▨survived yesterday's strike, while everyone else died,” Majid al-Kurd, the deceased 🍸woman's cousin, told the AP on Saturday.
"The baby is in go🅘od health based on what doctors said,” he added.
Israel’s war on Gaza, which was sparked by Hamas' October 7 attack, has killed more than 38,900 pe🐽ople, according to the territory's Health Ministry. The war has created a humanitarian catastrophe in♔ the coastal Palestinian territory, displaced most of its 2.3 million population and triggered widespread hunger.
Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Talks
On Friday, the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, said a cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel 🥃that will release Israeli hostages captive by the group in Gaza is “inside the 10-yard line”, but added "we know that anything in the last 10 yards are the hardest”.
Fruitless stop-and-start negotiations between the warring sides have been underway since N🍰ovember's one-week cease-fire, with both Hamas and Israel repeatedly accusing each other of scu🤡ppering the effort to reach a deal.
Meanwhile, the United Nations' International Court of Justice in The Hague issued a non-binding opinion that Israel's presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful, saying Israel could not🌠 claim sovereignty in the territories and was impeding Palestinians⭕’ right to self-determination.
The court called for an end to settlement construction and asked that existing settlem🃏ents in the West Bank and ea🔯st Jerusalem be removed.
(With AP Inputs)
