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On the 151st day of the war on Gaza, Israeli occupation aircraft and artillery intensify their raids on various cities and camps in the Gaza Strip, leaving dozens of martyrs and wounded, while fighting rages between the Palestinian resistance and the forces invading the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City and in Khan Yunis, south of the Strip.
Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that people were wounded by occupation bullets as they sought to obtain aid in Gaza City, at a time when hopes were rising for reaching a truce agreement before the advent of the month of Ramadan, despite the stagnation prevailing in the Cairo talks.
10 massacres
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced - Tuesday - that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip had risen to 30,631 martyrs and 72,043 injured since the seventh of last October.
The Palestinian Ministry said - in a post on its Facebook account - today that "the Israeli occupation committed 10 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing 97 martyrs and wounding 123 during the past 24 hours."
She added that "on the 151st day of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and the occupation is preventing ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching them."
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“Difficult” discussions
An Israeli official said - Tuesday - that they are awaiting a response from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to proposals regarding prisoner exchange talks and a ceasefire in Gaza.
In statements reported by the Israeli Channel 13, that official said that they came against the backdrop of reports that spoke of the “collapse” of the ongoing negotiations in the Egyptian capital to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas.
On the other hand, a Hamas leader said that leaders from the movement are expected to hold more talks in Cairo with Egyptian and Qatari mediators as part of efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement.
Earlier today, an informed source in Hamas confirmed the movement’s position, which requires the occupation to stop its aggression against the Gaza Strip and allow humanitarian aid to enter without restrictions, in order for Hamas to continue participating in negotiations regarding the exchange of prisoners.
In Cairo, local media sources quoted a senior Egyptian source as saying that there were “difficulties” facing these discussions, but he confirmed that they were “still ongoing.”
In a press conference held by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Washington with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, Blinken said, "We have an opportunity to reach an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and we must reach it to increase humanitarian access."
For his part, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman said, “We would like all the hostages in the Gaza Strip to be liberated and aid delivered to civilians,” adding that “the current situation is unprecedented, and chaos is spreading everywhere in Gaza, the Red Sea, and Syria.”
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Only bones remained of his small body!
Family of the child Yazan Al-Kafarna: We lost our son due to hunger and lack of medicine #Gaza_War pic.twitter.com/wZhoP6Oouc
- Al Jazeera Channel (@AJArabic) March 5, 2024
Children are suffering
On the humanitarian level, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned of an imminent deterioration and increase in the number of child deaths linked to malnutrition in the Gaza Strip, explaining that death rates in the north of the Strip are three times higher than those recorded in the south.
UNICEF spokesman James Elder said, in a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, that the number of child deaths as a result of malnutrition will continue to rise if the worsening nutrition crisis in the Gaza Strip is not resolved.
Elder explained that malnutrition rates among children under the age of five - in the north - are three times higher than those in Rafah in the south.
In addition to hunger, Elder said there is an increasing risk of infectious diseases, as 9 out of every 10 children under the age of five (about 220,000 children) have become ill over the past weeks.
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Scenes from the site of the stabbing attack that took place at the Yitzhar settlement south of #Nablus in the West Bank, which resulted in the injury of an Israeli soldier and the martyrdom of a Palestinian #Gaza_War #Video pic.twitter.com/JcWaOiHxlI
- Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) March 5, 2024
A stabbing operation in the West Bank
In the West Bank, Israeli sources reported that a soldier was injured during a stabbing attack carried out by a young Palestinian near the Yitzhar settlement, south of Nablus.
Al Jazeera's correspondent stated that the occupation forces shot the young man during the operation.
Meanwhile, Israeli Army Radio said that the perpetrator of the attack in which an Israeli was wounded at the Yitzhar settlement had been “liquidated.”
The Israeli Beilinson Hospital in Tel Aviv reported that the condition of the injured soldier was "serious."
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Israeli media: The city of Kiryat Shmona is being attacked by about 70 rockets #Gaza_War #Video pic.twitter.com/Vo3X8XRiAq
- Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) March 5, 2024
Rockets on Kiryat Shmona and deaths in Lebanon
On the Lebanese front, Israeli media said that the city of Kiryat Shmona was being attacked by about 70 missiles.
Israeli media reported that the mayor of Kiryat Shmona declared a state of emergency and asked residents to leave immediately.
Sirens sounded in a number of settlements in the Western Galilee region, close to Lebanon's southern border.
This comes at a time when Israel continues to bomb villages in southern Lebanon, which led to the death of 3 civilians. In return, it announced the closure of some of its settlements that were hit by Hezbollah missiles, warning of “reaching a stage of military decisiveness.”
Reuters quoted an official as saying that an Israeli strike killed 3 civilians in their home in southern Lebanon.
For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said, "Hezbollah's aggression brings us closer to a decisive point regarding our military action in southern Lebanon."
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Source: Al Jazeera + agencies