Israel's expansion of Gaza offensive has shocked the Waz people who have suffered multiple displacements and severe food shortages in nearly 19 months.
Israel has been blocking all aid from entering Gaza since March 2, when a two-month ceasefire with Hamas improved access to food and medicine for Gaza people and allowed many of them to go home, collapsed.
Moaz Kahlout, a displaced man from Gaza City, said many of the lawsuits resorting to GPS were to find ruins of abolished houses in the war.
“They destroyed us, displaced and killed us,” said Enshirah Bahloul, a woman from the southern city of Khan Yunis. “We want security and peace in this world. We don't want to stay homeless, hungry and thirsty.”
Mohammed al-Peikaly attended the funeral at a Israeli air strike on Monday, Mohammed al-Peikaly said things were horrible and it was hard to understand Israel's plans to strengthen its attack.
“Nothing in the Gaza Strip has not been hit by missiles and explosion barrels and there is still a threat of expanding operations,” he said.
“I asked all over the world, what else do I need to bomb?”
Local health authorities said Israeli military strikes killed at least 37 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday. At least 17 people, including women and children, were killed in a displaced family in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military said it attacked “terrorists” they operated from the command center, which they used to store weapons, plans and stages to attack Israel.
Military expansion is not the solution: the father of hostages
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the expanded military operations would be “intensive” and involved holding territories and relocation of Palestinians “for their own security.”
Some Israelis also objected to the plan. A man was arrested at the summer meeting of the government's opening ceremony on Monday.
Families holding hostages in Gaza are concerned about what military operations or epilepsy seizures mean to their relatives.
“I can't see the extension of war as a solution – it definitely makes us everywhere. It feels like a year ago.” said Adi Alexander, father of the Israeli United States Edan Alexander, who was a soldier captured on October 7, 2023.
Israel approved a plan to strengthen military operations against Hamas by seizing Gaza, establishing new bases and maintaining unspecified time. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Gaza's population would move to the south.
The father is counting on US President Donald Trump's visit to the Middle East next week. Israeli leaders said they did not intend to expand the action until after Trump's visit, opening the door to possible deals.
Trump is not expecting a visit to Israel, but he and other U.S. officials often talk about Edan Alexander, the last American Israeli to be held at a Gaza site, who is still considered alive.
Moshe Lavi, 48-year-old Omri Miran's brother-in-law, is still considered the largest hostage to be alive, and he said the family is concerned about Israel's plans.
“We hope this is just a signal to Hamas that Israel's goal is to remove its government and military capabilities as a leverage for negotiations, but it is not clear whether it is an end or a means,” he said.
Gaza is not enough
Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians gather outside a charity kitchen every day to distribute hot meals to displaced families in southern Gaza. Children push the pot or bucket forward, desperately pushing and pushing to bring food to their families.
“What should we do?” Sara Younis asked Sara Younis, a woman from the southernmost Rafah, who was waiting for the children's hot meal. “No food, no flour, nothing.”
An Israeli official said the plan would involve moving civilians southward and controlling the distribution of aid to prevent food from falling into Hamas' hands. The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs rejected the plan on Tuesday “the opposite of what is needed.”
Children in Gaza show signs of acute malnutrition as Israel’s lockdown on food and medicine stretches through the third month. Aid work is staggering, and as supplies are almost gone, the United Nations famine has begun.
2.3 million people in Gaza are struggling with food, many of whom only eat once a day. The World Food Programme said on April 25 that it had used up food stocks in the area.
Nidal Abu Helal, a displaced person who works in a charity, said the group is increasingly concerned that people, especially children, will die of hunger.
“We are not afraid of dying from missiles,” he said. “We are worried that our children will die of hunger in front of us.”
Some residents have been eating weeds or leaves, while fishermen turn to fishing for turtles and selling meat.
Since 2007, Hamas, an Islamic militant group of Islamic militant groups, accused Israel of “using food as a weapon in the war with the Gaza people.”
According to Israel's will, the war was triggered by an attack led by Hamas on October 7, 2023 on southern Israel, with 1,200 people killed and 251 hostages.
Since then, Israel's campaign in Gaza has killed more than 52,000 Palestinians, mainly civilians, and has reduced much of Gaza to ruins.
