At least 60 Palestinians killed in Gaza as Netanyahu vows to ‘finish job’

At least 30 of the victims were killed in Gaza City, where Israel has escalated its attacks since launching a ground operation on September 16.

Locations including al-Wehda Street, the Shati camp and the Nassr neighbourhood were struck on Friday. One attack also hit the residential Remal neighbourhood in the west of the city.

From Remal, Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili reported that the attack happened without prior warning, and that Palestinian civilians were searching through the rubble of a building looking for survivors while medical teams took away the bodies of the dead.

“This residential neighbourhood is still packed with many people who have chosen to stay,” al-Khalili said.

“The situation has gone from bad to worse in light of the escalation of Israeli attacks targeting different sites and locations,” he added.

Amid the increased bombardment, Israel carried out “an air strike every eight or nine minutes” over the past 24 hours, with “devastating consequences for civilians”, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a news conference on Friday, citing the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Added to the deaths from Israeli strikes, Palestinian medical sources confirmed that 13 people were killed on Friday as they attempted to get aid from sites run by the controversial Israel- and United States-backed GHF.
Netanyahu defiant
The deaths came as Netanyahu delivered a defiant speech at the UN headquarters, hitting out at the countries that have recognised Palestinian statehood this week.