The number of deaths in Gaza increases to 50,000, the Ministry of Health of the territory says, since Israel orders new strikes, evacuations

Palestinian officials said the War in Gaza He has killed more than 50,000 people after Israel finished high fire last week in a wave of strikes that killed hundreds.

Israel, who threatened Gaza with “complete destruction and devastation“If Hamas did not deliver the remaining hostages, he has continued to attack what he says are militant objectives. He also launched terrestrial incursions in northern Gaza.

During the night until Sunday, the Israeli blows through the South Gaza Strip killed at least 26 Palestinians, including a political leader of Hamas and several women and children.

The residents said the tanks had advanced in an area of ​​the southern city of Rafah while the military ordered to evacuate.

You could see Palestinian men, women and children walking along a dirt road and carrying their belongings to their arms, a recurring scene in a war that has forced the majority of the population of Gaza to flee from the territory.

“It’s under fire,” Mustafa Gaber said, a local journalist who left Tel al-sult with his family. In a video call, he said that hundreds of people fled when the tank and drone fire resonated nearby. “There are people injured among us. The situation is very difficult,” he said.

The Israeli defense forces said that the operation in Tel al-Sultan went to “terrorist infrastructure sites” and tried to “eliminate terrorists in the area, to reinforce control and expand the security zone in southern Gaza.”

“IDF will continue to operate against terrorist organizations in Gaza to protect Israeli civilians,” he said in a statement.

Hamas said that Salah Bardawil, a member of his political office and the Palestinian Parliament, was killed in a strike in Muwasi who also killed his wife.

The hospitals in southern Gaza said they received another 24 strikes of strikes during the night, including several women and children.

Later on Sunday, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said an Israeli air strike hit a hospital in Khan Yunis, killing at least one person.

The Ministry says that the strike caused a great fire in the hospital’s surgical building in the southern city of Khan Younis. The hospital says there are several injured.

Israel’s army confirmed the strike in the hospital, saying that he hit a Hamas militant operating there. Israel blames Civil Deaths to Hamas because it operates in densely populated areas.

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, an American doctor inside the hospital, told CBS News on the phone that the front of the building was on fire after an explosion. He said the hospital was standing and worried about the possibility of another attack.

The sources told CBS News that Ismail Barhoum, a political member of Hamas and spokesman, was the goal of the hospital strike.

The Gaza Ministry of Health led by Hamas said that a total of 50,021 Palestinians have been killed in the war and that more than 113,000 have been injured. The last touch announced on Sunday includes 673 people killed since Israel’s surprise bombing on Tuesday, as well as 233 bodies that were recently identified, the ministry said.

The Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in their records, but has said that women and children represent more than half of the dead. Israel says he has killed about 20,000 combatants, without providing evidence.

On Saturday night, the Israel cabinet approved a proposal to establish a new direction responsible for advancing in the “voluntary game” of the Palestinians in line with the proposal of President Trump a Depopular to Gaza and rebuild it for others.

The Palestinians say they do not want to abandon their homeland, and the rights groups have said that the plan could be equivalent to expulsion in violation of international law.

Israeli defense minister Israel Katz said that the new body would be “subject to Israeli and international law” and will coordinate “the passage through land, sea and air to the destination countries.”

The high fire that was strengthened in January 15 months of heavy fighting on for Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 people. The militants led by Hamas took 251 people as hostages.

Most captives have been released in high -fire or other agreements, while Israeli forces rescued eight living and recovered dozens of bodies.

The parties were supposed to begin negotiations in early February in the next phase of the truce, in which Hamas should release the remaining 59 hostages, 35 of which they are believed to be dead, in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a high durable fire and an Israeli withdrawal.

These conversations never began, and Israel withdrew from the high fire agreement after Hamas rejected Israeli proposals and backed by the United States to release more hostages before any conversation about a lasting truce.