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Israeli citizens took to the streets of Jerusalem on Wednesday to protest the army's call-up of tens of thousands of reservists for an offensive that has been condemned internationally and has sparked fears in Israel that it could endanger hostages still being held in the Gaza Strip.
Protesters accuse the country's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his cabinet of failing to reach a ceasefire agreement and instead accelerating the occupation that, according to hospitals in Gaza, is significantly increasing the death toll.
"We need to take extreme action so that someone will remind us. There is no state that abandons its citizens," Yael Kuperman, a protester near the Knesset, told Israeli public broadcaster Kan.
Israelis have protested frequently during the war, demanding a deal that brings Israeli hostages home.
Meanwhile, hospital officials told the Associated Press news agency that at least 24 people were killed in the attacks overnight and Wednesday morning.
Nasser Hospital said it received 10 bodies, including a person seeking help in Rafah and a child killed in an attack in southern Gaza.
Shifa Hospital said it received the bodies of 14 people, including two children and four women, while Al-Quds Hospital reported another victim from Israeli attacks.
Israel says Gaza City - the largest Palestinian city in both the besieged Strip and the occupied West Bank - remains a Hamas stronghold and that there is an extensive network of tunnels beneath it, even after previous raids during the war.
Hamas has been declared a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.
Israel has increased air and ground attacks on the outskirts of Gaza City, especially in the western neighborhoods, where, according to humanitarian groups coordinating aid for the displaced, people are being forced to flee towards the coast.
Palestinians and aid workers say the twin threats of fighting and hunger are looming large for families in Gaza City, the vast majority of whom have been displaced multiple times during the 23-month war.
Hospital officials and the Gaza Health Ministry said on Wednesday that the death toll was rising as people were killed by airstrikes, while trying to get aid, or as a result of extreme hunger.
The ministry said 113 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday - more than half in Gaza City - over the past 24 hours.
This number, repeated often in recent weeks, was released a day after Netanyahu and Israeli commanders told reservists that the offensive was entering what they hoped would be the "decisive phase" of the war.
The ministry reported on Wednesday that five adults and one child died from malnutrition in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 367, including 131 children, throughout the war.
The Gaza war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and took about 250 hostages, according to Israeli figures.
Since then, more than 63,633 Palestinians have been killed during Israel's war, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government and made up of medical professionals./ REL
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