“The Hamas targets in Gaza after shells fired from the strip”>Gaza Strip is completely in darkness and isolated, and intense shelling continues. UNRWA [Jungtinių Tautų pagalbos ir darbų agentūra Palestinos pabėgėliams Artimuosiuose Rytuose] warns of the desperate situation of the residents of the Gaza Strip without electricity, food, water,” he wrote on social networks.
“Too many civilians were killed, including children. This is against international humanitarian law,” he noted.
“There is an urgent need for a pause in hostilities to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered,” Mr Borrell added.
Israel began bombing the Gaza Strip after Hamas gunmen stormed the border on October 7, killing 1,400 people. people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped more than 220 people, according to Israeli officials.
The Health Ministry of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip said on Saturday that 7,703 people, mostly civilians, including more than 3,500 children, had been killed in Israeli retaliatory strikes in the enclave.
Mr Borrell also condemned all attacks on civilians “including the continued indiscriminate rocket attacks against Israel” and called for the “immediate and unconditional release of all hostages”.
Late Friday night, Israel intensified its air campaign in the Gaza Strip, reducing hundreds of buildings and thousands of homes to rubble.
Witnesses said most of the shelling was around two hospitals, Al-Shifa and the so-called Indonesian Hospital, in the Jabalia district of northern Gaza.
The impacts left wide craters in the streets and many buildings were razed to the ground.
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