Israeli military deploys additional division to Jabalia, joining two battalions operating there, statement says
\n Gaza
\nAt least 31 people were killed during Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medics said, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army has waged a month-long aggression it claims aims to prevent Hamas regrouping.
\nPalestinians said the new aerial and ground offensives and forced evacuations were \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d aimed at emptying two northern Gaza towns and a camp of their population in order to create buffer zones. Israel denies this, saying it is fighting Hamas.
\nMedics said at least 13 Palestinians were killed in separate attacks on houses in Beit Lahiya town and Jabalia, the largest of the enclave\u2019s eight historic refugee camps and the focus of the army\u2019s new aggression.
\nThe rest were killed in separate Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and in southern areas, including one in Khan Younis, which health officials said had killed eight people, including four children.
\nIsrael has not commented on its military actions in Gaza on Sunday.
\nOn Saturday, the Israeli military sent a new army division to Jabalia to join two other operating battalions, a statement said. It said that hundreds of Palestinian have been killed in the \u201cbattles\u201d since the raid began on October 5.
\nMeanwhile, COGAT, the Israeli army\u2019s Palestinian civilian affairs agency, said it facilitated the launch of the second round of a polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza on Saturday and that 58,604 children have received a dose.
\nThe Gaza health ministry said Israel\u2019s military aggression in northern Gaza was stopping them from vaccinating thousands of children in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya, and Beit Hanoun.
\nIt said one clinic had come under Israeli fire while parents brought their children for the anti-polio dose on Saturday and that four children had been injured.
\n\u2018Ceasefire!\u2019
\nThe head of the World Health Organisation said in a statement the clinic incident took place despite a humanitarian pause agreed upon by the two warring parties, Israel and Hamas, to allow the vaccination campaign.
\n\u201cA WHO team was at the site just before. This attack, during a humanitarian pause, jeopardises the sanctity of health protection for children and may deter parents from bringing their children for vaccination,\u201d Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X on Saturday.
\n\u201cThese vital humanitarian-area-specific pauses must be absolutely respected. Ceasefire!\u201d he said.
\nThe Israeli military, which had no immediate comment on Tedros\u2019 remarks, said it was checking the report about the clinic.
\nA larger ceasefire that would end Israeli aggression and see the release of Israeli and foreign hostages held captive in Gaza as well as Palestinians jailed by Israel remains remote due to disagreements between Hamas and Israel.
\nHamas wants an agreement to end the Israeli aggression permanently, refusing recent offers for temporary truces, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says war can only end when Hamas is eradicated.
\nsrael\u2019s year-long aggression in Gaza has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians and reduced most of Gaza to rubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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