Gaza [Palestine], June 27: Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 60 Palestinians and injured 140 in the latest 24-hour reporting period, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
Gaza's Civil Defense says the level of destruction left behind after Israel's bombardment of the Beit Lahiya city in northern Gaza "defies imagination".
At least 15 people have been killed in the city after the bombardment of the Abu Awad family home sheltering about 40 people, as well as civil infrastructure and nearby houses, Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum reports.
People in Gaza are "enduring subhuman conditions" with a third of the population picking through rubbish to survive in the oppressive summer heat, says the Mercy Corps aid group.
The US is "urgently seeking a diplomatic agreement" to end the violent conflict on the Israel-Lebanon border, US Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin says.
At least 37,718 people killed and 86,377 wounded in Israel's war on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks stands at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
The past 24 hours have been quite violent, bloody, and quite brutal for Palestinians in Gaza.
There have been more attacks on densely populated areas, whether it is in the northern part of the Strip, the central area of Nuseirat or further to the southern parts of Gaza, where the Israeli military is still operating aggressively, destroying and systematically demolishing residential homes in Rafah city.
These attacks are taking place on a population that has been herded from one place to another, already displaced more than once.
Many parts of Gaza are already struggling on a daily basis with forced dehydration and starvation.
It's not only the unpredictable bombs that are killing people. Even if we say, for argument's sake, the bomb stops falling, people are going to die because of the dire situation in Gaza.
Meanwhile, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has met with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, according to a statement released by the White House on Wednesday.
"Sullivan reaffirmed the United States' ironclad commitment to Israel's security, including in the face of threats from Iranian-backed terrorist groups such as Lebanese Hezbollah," the statement read.
Source: Qatar Tribune
