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A woman mourns people who died in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis

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The Israeli military is apparently combing the large city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip in its fight against Hamas.

There are said to have been attacks from the air, land and sea, the Reuters news agency reported, citing eyewitnesses.

These were the worst attacks since the war began in October.

According to the information, the Israeli armed forces also blocked the entrances to two clinics in the city with tanks.

This is said to have prevented patients from getting to the emergency room.

The information could not be independently verified.

According to witness reports, conditions in another hospital – the only one to which there is still access – are catastrophic.

Injured people would be treated in hallways and on the floor.

According to Reuters, video recordings show clouds of smoke over the city and shots could be heard again and again.

Scattered civilians are roaming the destroyed city.

Israel intensified its offensive in Khan Yunis last week.

According to the army, the city is a headquarters of the terrorist organization Hamas.

Hamas and other extremist groups from the Gaza Strip killed around 1,140 people in attacks in Israel on October 7th and kidnapped 250 others as hostages in the Gaza Strip.

More than a hundred hostages are still in the Palestinian territory.

EU foreign policy chief Borrell warns that Israel's actions are fueling "hatred for generations"

In response, Israel is attacking the Gaza Strip from the air and with ground troops; the declared aim of the war is to destroy Hamas.

However, doubts are growing internationally as to whether this goal can be achieved.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told journalists on the sidelines of the EU foreign ministers' meeting that Israel's current actions were fomenting "hatred for generations."

The way in which the destruction of Hamas is being pursued is "not the way."

“We have to stop talking about the peace process and start talking more specifically about the process of the two-state solution,” Borrell continued.

Borrell initially did not comment on the details of his concept.

However, it should serve as the basis for the discussions on Monday.

The Secretary General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Abul Gheit, as well as the foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan were expected to attend the talks in Brussels.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock indirectly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's negative attitude towards a two-state solution.

"All those who don't want to know anything about it have not yet come up with any other alternative," she said in Brussels.

Hamas rejects a two-state solution, according to which an independent, democratic and demilitarized Palestinian state should exist peacefully alongside Israel.

The terrorist organization instead seeks to destroy the state of Israel.

More than 25,000 people have died in the attacks, according to Hamas-controlled health authorities.

In the past 24 hours alone, 190 Palestinians were killed and 340 others injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, an authority spokesman said.

These figures cannot be independently verified, but have proven to be credible in past Gaza wars.

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