DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes successful nan Gaza Strip killed astatine slightest 32 group connected Sunday, including six children astatine a h2o postulation point, while nan Palestinian decease toll passed 58,000 aft 21 months of war, section wellness officials said.
Israel and Hamas appeared nary person to a breakthrough successful indirect talks meant to region nan war and free immoderate Israeli hostages aft Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Washington sojourn past week. A sticking constituent has emerged over Israeli troops ′ deployment during a ceasefire.
Israel says it will extremity nan warfare only erstwhile Hamas surrenders, disarms and goes into exile, thing it refuses to do. Hamas says it is consenting to free each nan remaining 50 hostages, astir 20 said to beryllium alive, successful speech for nan war’s extremity and nan afloat withdrawal of Israeli forces.
Frustrated, families of immoderate hostages demonstrated extracurricular Netanyahu’s agency Sunday evening. “The overwhelming mostly of nan group successful Israel person spoken loudly and clearly: We want to do a deal, moreover astatine nan costs of ending this war, and we want to do it now,” said Jon Polin, begetter of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American hostage killed successful captivity.
Throughout nan warfare successful Gaza, violence has surged successful nan Israeli-occupied West Bank. Funerals were held location Sunday for 2 Palestinians, including Palestinian-American Sayfollah Musallet, killed by Israeli settlers, according to nan Palestinian Health Ministry.

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Children killed and Israel blames a method error
In cardinal Gaza, officials astatine Al-Awda Hospital said it received 10 bodies aft an Israeli onslaught connected a h2o postulation constituent successful adjacent Nuseirat. Among nan dormant were six children.
Ramadan Nassar, a witnesser who lives successful nan area, told The Associated Press that astir 20 children and 14 adults had been lined up to get water. He said Palestinians locomotion immoderate 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) to fetch h2o from nan area.
The Israeli subject said it was targeting a militant but a method correction made its munitions autumn “dozens of meters from nan target.”
In Nuseirat, a mini boy leaned complete a assemblage container to opportunity goodbye to a friend.
“There is nary safe place,” resident Raafat Fanouna said arsenic immoderate group went complete nan rubble pinch sticks and bare hands.
Separately, wellness officials said an Israeli onslaught deed a group of citizens stepping successful nan thoroughfare connected Sunday day successful cardinal Gaza City, sidesplitting 11 group and injuring astir 30 others.
Dr. Ahmed Qandil, who specializes successful wide surgery, was among those killed, Gaza’s Health Ministry said. A ministry spokesperson, Zaher al-Wahidi, told nan AP that Qandil had been connected his measurement to Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital.
In nan cardinal municipality of Zawaida, an Israeli onslaught connected a location killed nine, including 2 women and 3 children, officials astatine Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said. Later, Al-Awda Hospital said a onslaught connected a group of group successful Zawaida killed two.
Israel’s subject said it was unaware of nan onslaught connected nan home, but said it deed much than 150 targets complete nan past 24 hours, including what it called weapons retention facilities, rocket launchers and sniping posts. Israel blames Hamas for civilian casualties because nan militant group operates retired of populated areas.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says women and children dress up much than half of nan complete 58,000 dormant successful nan war. The ministry, nether Gaza’s Hamas-run government, doesn’t differentiate betwixt civilians and combatants successful its count. The U.N. and different world organizations spot its figures arsenic nan astir reliable statistic connected warfare casualties.
The Hamas-led onslaught connected Oct. 7, 2023, that sparked nan warfare killed immoderate 1,200 group and abducted 251.
Israel’s Energy Minister Eli Cohen told right-wing Channel 14 that his ministry will not thief rebuild infrastructure successful Gaza. “Gaza should stay an land of ruins to nan adjacent decades,” he said.

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Funeral for Palestinian-American killed successful nan West Bank
In nan West Bank, which has seen unit betwixt Israeli troops and Palestinians and Israeli settlers’ attacks connected Palestinians, funerals were held for a Palestinian-American and a Palestinian friend.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Musallet, from Florida, had been beaten by Israeli settlers. Diana Halum, a cousin, said nan onslaught occurred connected his family’s land. The ministry initially identified him arsenic Seifeddine Musalat, 23.
Musallet’s friend, Mohammed al-Shalabi, was changeable successful nan chest, nan ministry said.
Israel’s subject has said Palestinians hurled rocks astatine Israelis successful nan area connected Friday, lightly wounding 2 group and mounting disconnected a larger confrontation. Palestinians and authorities groups person agelong accused nan subject of ignoring settler violence.
Their bodies were carried done nan streets connected Sunday arsenic mourners waved Palestinian flags and chanted, “God is great.”
Musallet’s family has said it wants nan U.S. State Department to analyse his decease and clasp nan settlers accountable. The State Department has said it had nary remark retired of respect for nan family.
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Isseid reported from Al-Mazraa a-Sharqiya, West Bank. Associated Press writers Fatma Khaled successful Cairo and Melanie Lidman successful Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.
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