Israeli strikes have killed at least 36 Palestinians across Gaza, health officials said, a day after Israel eased aid restrictions amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in the territory.
Among the dead was a newborn baby who underwent complex surgery after his mother, who was seven months pregnant, was killed in the strike, Nasser Hospital said.
Israel announced on Sunday that the military would suspend operations in the cities of Gaza, Deir al-Balah and Muwasi for 10 hours a day until further notice to ensure an improved flow of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where concerns over famine have grown, and to identify safe routes for aid delivery.
Israel said it would continue military operations alongside new humanitarian measures.
The Israeli military has not yet commented on the latest strikes, which occurred outside of an Israeli-announced break from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. local time.
Aid groups welcomed the new aid measures, which also include permission to airdrop humanitarian aid into Gaza, but said they were not enough to combat growing hunger in the Palestinian territory.
Photos of emaciated children have sparked outrage around the world, including among Israel’s close allies.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday called images of malnourished and undernourished children in the Gaza Strip “horrible”.
Israel has restricted aid to varying degrees throughout the war.
In March, it stopped the import of all goods, including fuel, food and medicine, to put pressure on Hamas to release the hostages.
In May, Israel partially lifted those restrictions but also began implementing a new US-backed humanitarian aid delivery system that has been engulfed in chaos and violence.
Traditional aid providers have also faced similar breakdowns in law and order related to the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Much of Gaza’s population now depends on humanitarian aid.
Access to food has become a problem for which some Palestinians have risked their lives.
Awda Hospital in central Gaza said it had received the bodies of seven Palestinians it said were killed on Monday by Israeli fire near a humanitarian aid distribution point run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF).
The hospital said another 20 people were injured near the scene.
GHF did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A pregnant woman and her baby were killed along with 11 others after a shell hit their home in the Muwasi area, west of the southern city of Khan Younis, a hospital run by the Palestine Red Crescent said.
Another strike hit a two-story house in the western Japanese district of Khan Yunis, killing at least 11 people, more than half of them women and children, said Nasser Hospital, where the victims were taken.
At least five people were killed in strikes elsewhere in Gaza, according to local hospitals.
The Israeli military has not yet responded to requests for comment on most of the strikes.
The company said it was not aware of any strikes on Gaza City during the outage, which health officials said killed one person.
In the attack on October 7, 2023, Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
There are still 50 people there, more than half of whom Israel believes are dead.
More than 59,800 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory offensive, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The death toll does not differentiate between militants and civilians, but the ministry says more than half of the dead are women and children.
The ministry operates under the Hamas government.
The UN and other international organizations consider it the most reliable source of data on victims.
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