Gaza’s first and new deadly attack on a humanitarian zone Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says at least nineteen people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a humanitarian zone this morning. Meanwhile, new protests have broken out in Israel, as demonstrators demand Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do more to bring back Israeli hostages. News Chief National Correspondent Matt Sarkar has more. The Israeli military indeed said it carried out airstrikes against senior Hamas militants in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, which it has designated as a humanitarian zone or place that is more secure than the rest of Gaza. Nineteen people have been killed in that attack, and several dozen people have been injured, officials in the Hamas-run health ministry said. Israel said it was partly a retaliation for what it said senior Hamas military commanders did on October 7.
Part of the air or one that Hamas continues to hold in Israel. The uproar last week, following the news of the six hostages being killed in a tunnel in southern Gaza, saw thousands of Israelis take to the streets protesting for Israel to implement a ceasefire to secure the release of the hostages. Demanding that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu do more to get this done. As long as the hostages are alive, work is being done quickly and now videos are circulating, it has been seen by the Israeli cabinet, it has been seen by the families of the hostages. We have not seen it yet, apparently shows the conditions inside the tunnel where Israeli soldiers found the six hostages, about a hundred meters long.
It was only five feet high, two feet wide, and difficult to stand up in, they were apparently in the dark for days or possibly weeks, and they used buckets to bathe. That was the area where they were held and of course where they were killed, all of which added to the pressure. There’s pressure on these governments to find some solution to this hostage deal and enter into that ceasefire and that’s something that I think Israelis and many Americans are going to be watching tonight in the debate to see what the vice president has to say about how to get a ceasefire agreement done more quickly than President Biden. Trump is of course very likely to be very vocal about what he’ll say, what he’s saying is that this war would never have happened under his tenure.
He would make sure that the ceasefire and the release of the hostages would have happened a long time ago, obviously that’s easier said than done. But these are things that Israelis have certainly been looking for for some time, well another thing they’re going to be keen to hear. Particularly what former President Trump says about whether he would join Israel in attacking Iran either preemptively or after some kind of Iranian operation against Israel.
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