Israeli airstrikes killed at least 32 people across Gaza overnight, Palestinian health officials said Saturday, as international pressure mounts for a ceasefire that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected in his vow to press ahead with Israel’s genocidal war.
Strikes in central and northern Gaza killed people in their homes in the early hours of Saturday morning, including nine from the same family in a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to health staff at the Al-Awda hospital where the bodies were brought.
The attacks came hours after Netanyahu told fellow world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly Friday that his nation "must finish the job" against Hamas in Gaza.
Netanyahu's words, aimed as much at his increasingly divided domestic audience as the global one, began after dozens of delegates from multiple nations walked out of the U.N. General Assembly hall en masse Friday morning as he began speaking.
International pressure on Israel to end the war is increasing, as is Israel's isolation, with a growing list of countries deciding recently to recognize Palestinian statehood - something Israel rejects.
