Safaa al-Najjar's blood-stained face contorts as she takes in the wrapped remains of her sons: Moaz, six weeks old, and Motaz, who was one and a half years old.
Beside her at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, her 11-year-old son Yusuf screams out his grief as he sees them. The 11-year-old's head is bandaged. But he and two more siblings survived the air raid, as did their father who is being cared for in the intensive care unit.
I gave them lunch and put them to bed as usual. Then, I don't know what happened, the world turned upside down... What have they done wrong, laments Safaa al-Najjar according to AP's reporting.
Her family is one of several that have been hit by Israel's escalated bombardment. Outside Nasser Hospital, rows of wrapped bodies lie, bundles being picked up by mourners and buried.
Similar scenes are playing out at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. There, an AP journalist counted over 20 wrapped bodies on Friday.
No Aid Deliveries
Nearly 100 people have been killed in Gaza on Friday, according to hospital reports. The Civil Defense in Gaza, controlled by the terrorist-stamped Hamas, claims that earlier nights' intense attacks have claimed over 120 lives and injured several dozen.
Israel claims that the targets of the raids are Hamas representatives, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to step up the war. But a large proportion of the dead are children and women.
At the same time, hunger and the threat of starvation are acute in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. UN agencies have been warning for weeks that food supplies are running out and medical equipment is exhausted.
Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid to Gaza since March 2, according to reports, in order to put further pressure on Hamas, whose large-scale attack against Israel on October 2023 triggered the war.
High-ranking Hamas representatives, including politician Basem Naim, say however that resumed aid deliveries – access to food, water, and medicine – are a minimum requirement for "constructive negotiations".
Trump: Gaza Should be Taken Care of
American representatives have been working during the spring to achieve a ceasefire, but at the same time, the USA has continuously provided military support to Israel during the war. And President Donald Trump has made controversial statements about taking over Gaza and creating a "Middle East Riviera" and "freedom zone" there.
But on Friday, Trump also spoke about famine in Gaza.
We're looking at Gaza. We'll make sure it's taken care of. Many people are starving, said the President to reporters in Abu Dhabi.
