UN secretary general Gutteres calls for aid to be delivered as region braces for Israeli invasion
People stand near the rubble at the Greek Orthodox Saint Porphyrius Church following an airstrike in Gaza. The Gaza health ministry said 16 people died in the attack. Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPAIsrael levelled a northern Gaza district on Friday after giving families a half-hour warning to escape, and hit an Orthodox Christian church where others had been sheltering, as it made clear that a command to invade Gaza was expected soon.
Since October 7th, at least 4,137 Palestinians have been killed and 13,000 wounded in Gaza in Israeli strikes, the Palestinian health ministry said.The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the main Palestinian Christian denomination, said Israeli forces had struck the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City, where hundreds of Christians and Muslims had sought sanctuary.
The Israeli military said part of the church was damaged in a strike on a militant command centre and it was reviewing the incident. They received Israeli warning messages on their mobile phones at breakfast, followed 10 minutes later by a small drone strike that hammered the message home. After another 20 minutes, F-16 warplanes brought the buildings down in huge explosions and clouds of dust.
“We don’t want to receive aid, we want the destruction and the killing of children in their sleep to stop. We are tired,” said neighbour Joumana Khreis. Mr Guterres toured the checkpoint on the Egypt side and called for a meaningful number of trucks to enter Gaza every day and checks to be quick and pragmatic.
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