Israeli attacks killed at least 14 people in the southern Gaza Strip early on Saturday, according to morgue records and health officials at Nasser Hospital, where they were taken.

The strikes targeted tents sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis, which became home to hundreds of thousands who had fled from different areas of Gaza, hospital officials said.

More than half of the dead are women and children, the morgue records show.

Awad Abu Agala, the uncle of two of the children killed in a strike, said that no place in Gaza was safe.

“They are all children... There are no military operations there, like the occupation (Israel) claims,” Abu Agala explained, adding that the family was targeted while they were in their tents. “The entire Gaza Strip is being bombed every minute and every second. In the south, in the north, everywhere.”

The grieving aunt of the children, Hekmat Foujo, pleaded for a truce. “We want to rest... It is up to the Arabs, not Trump. Have some mercy on us!” Foujo said, fighting through her tears.

In northern Gaza, Israeli gunfire killed at least five aid seekers Saturday near the Zikim crossing with Israel, where U.N convoys enter the enclave, health officials at the Sheikh Radwan field hospital told AP.

Six people were killed in other attacks elsewhere Saturday, according to hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to questions about the incidents.

Meanwhile, the world’s leading authority on food crises said Friday that Gaza City is gripped by famine that is likely to spread if fighting and restrictions on humanitarian aid continue.

A report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification says nearly half a million people in Gaza, about one-fourth of the population, face catastrophic hunger that leaves many at risk of dying.

Netanyahu’s office denounced the IPC report as “an outright lie.”

Israel says it has allowed enough aid to enter during the war, and it eased its blockade in recent weeks after images of emaciated children sparked international outrage. But U.N. agencies say it’s not nearly enough.

According to Gaza’s health ministry, more than 62,200 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli offensive since the war erupted in October 2023, following the Hamas-led militants attack in Israel that killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and when about 250 people were taking hostages, 50 of them are still in captivity in Gaza. Israel believes 20 are alive.

The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals. It does not say whether those killed by Israeli fire are civilians or combatants, but it says around half were women and children. The U.N. and many independent experts consider its figures to be the most reliable estimate of wartime casualties. Israel disputes its toll but has not provided its own.

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