Essential services, including the supply of drinking water, are becoming increasingly hard to come by as Israeli strikes continue in Gaza City, a local official told CNN ahead of anticipated ceasefire talks in Cairo.
“Hundreds of thousands of citizens in Gaza City are still suffering from the ongoing bombing and the scarcity of basic services, especially drinking water,” the municipality’s spokesperson Asem Alnabih said, adding that he continues to hear the sound of bombing early Sunday.
Israel has ramped up its assault on the densely populated city, which it claims is a Hamas stronghold and the location of many remaining hostages, despite criticism at home and abroad that the operation will worsen an already spiralling humanitarian catastrophe and endanger the lives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
Despite US President Donald Trump’s assertion that Israel had “temporarily stopped” bombing Gaza, at least 67 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday, including 45 in Gaza City alone, according to hospital officials in the battered enclave.
