China released its so-called three-step plan on Tuesday to end the Israel-Hamas war – while Gaza refugees in UN shelters were reduced to sharing one toilet for every 160 people and one shower for every 700.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, speaking at a summit of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – called for the formation of an “international peace conference” aimed at establishing an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
“Secondly, the humanitarian corridor must be kept safe and unobstructed, and more humanitarian aid should be provided to the people in Gaza,” Jinping said, according to the state-run Xinhua news channel.
“Third, the international community must act with practical measures to prevent the conflict from spilling over and endangering stability in the Middle East as a whole,” he said.
China’s call for peace comes as the United Nations says some 1.7 million people in Gaza have been displaced since the war erupted after the October 7 attack by the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group on Israel.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees said it has seen its shelters in Gaza buckle under the weight of all the refugees.
Chinese President Xi Jinping presented a three-stage plan for peace in Gaza. Getty Images Explosions and airstrikes continued to hit Gaza on Tuesday.AFP via Getty Images
On average, the agency said it has only one shower for every 700 people and about one toilet for every 160 people.
The humanitarian group’s shelters have also been destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, with some 67 locations affected since the war began, according to UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.
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The group estimates that at least 176 refugees have been killed in the airstrikes, along with 108 staff.
“We cannot protect people under the flag of the United Nations,” he said in a statement. “The people of Gaza are not safe anywhere: not at home, not under the UN flag, not in the hospital, not in the North, and not in the South.”
Humanitarian groups say children and civilians have exposed the burden of the Israel-Hamas War.AFP via Getty Images
Conflict has also erupted in other parts of the Middle East, with US military officials on Tuesday saying a base housing US troops in Iraq had been hit, causing “minor injuries to US personnel and damage to infrastructure,” The Times of Israel reported.
It was not immediately clear which group was responsible for the violence.
A convoy linked to Hezbollah en route to Baghdad was also hit by a drone strike on Tuesday, killing one militiaman and wounding at least three others, military officials told the media.
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It was unclear whether the attacks were linked, but it was the latest violence against US personnel in Iraq and Syria since the Israel-Hamas war began.
Meanwhile, airstrikes continued in Gaza on Tuesday despite a pending ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, with several explosions witnessed by CNN reporters across the border in Sderot.
Along with refugee camps, hospitals in Gaza have been rocked by airstrikes as the Israel Defense Forces seek to eliminate Hamas terrorists allegedly stationed under medical centers.
Wounded Palestinians were evacuated from the Indonesian Hospital on Monday and sent south to Nasser Hospital for treatment, as all hospitals in northern Gaza have been rendered virtually inoperable.
As evacuations continued from northern Gaza, the International Rescue Committee labeled the area “the world’s deadliest war zone for civilians” Tuesday.
Israeli forces evacuated detained Palestinians out of Gaza on Tuesday. AFP via Getty Images
“The manner in which the conflict is being waged is unacceptable from a humanitarian point of view,” the IRC said, estimating Palestinian deaths at more than 11,000. “The public bears the brunt.”
After Jinping’s call to prevent the war from spilling beyond Gaza, UNRWA warned that violence in the West Bank had “reached levels not seen in the past 15 years.”
The US State Department said on Monday that America is considering sanctions against Israeli settlers involved in attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.
“We don’t like to announce the restrictions we’re going to make before we implement them,” representative Matthew Miller told reporters.
The IDF remains active in northern Gaza as peace talks continue. AFP via Getty Images
“I will repeat that our first priority is for the Israeli government to take action against extremists who perpetrate violence against the Palestinian people. But we also have options that we can use if appropriate,” he added.
Miller declined to say whether the US would prosecute any American settlers found to have committed crimes in the West Bank.
Outside the West Bank, conflict has escalated between Israel and Hezbollah extremists across the Lebanese border – with the Lebanese government claiming several people, including three journalists, were killed on Tuesday in Israeli airstrikes.
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