Israeli strikes and gunfire have killed at least 38 people across Gaza, health officials have said, as international pressure grows for a ceasefire but Israel’s leader remains defiant about continuing the war.
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Strikes in central and northern Gaza killed people in their homes in the early hours of Saturday morning, including nine from the same family in a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to health staff at the Al-Awda hospital where the bodies were brought.
The attacks came hours after a defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Friday that his nation “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza.
Netanyahu’s words were aimed as much at his increasingly divided domestic audience as the global one. Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walked out of the UN General Assembly hall en masse on Friday morning as he began speaking.
International pressure on Israel to end the war is increasing, as is Israel’s isolation, with a growing list of countries deciding recently to recognise Palestinian statehood – something Israel rejects.
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