ISRAEL’S killing spree continued across Gaza today as a deadly air attack killed at least 28 people, mostly women and children, said the territory’s Health Ministry.

The attack came a day after a far-right Israeli minister claimed lawmakers in the United States supported Israel’s targeting of “food and aid depots” in Gaza.

In Thursday’s attacks at least nine people were killed in a strike on a police station in the northern Jabaliya area, the ministry said. The Israeli military claimed without evidence that it had targeted a command and control centre for Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group.

At least seven people were killed, including a mother and her two children, and another two children, in three strikes on the southern city of Khan Younis. 

Strikes in central Gaza killed six people, including two women and two children. An air strike on a home in Gaza City reportedly killed four children and their parents.

Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas and renewed its air and ground war over a month ago. 

It has sealed off Gaza’s two million Palestinians from all food and other imports since the beginning of March to pressure Hamas to release hostages.

Gaza’s humanitarian crisis is compounded by Israel’s continued aid blockade, which the acting head of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has described as a seeming “deliberate dismantling of Palestinian life.”

“The Gaza Strip is now likely facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the 18 months since the escalation of hostilities in October 2023,” said the OCHA in its latest situation update on April 23.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) accused the Israelis of using “aid as a political weapon, coupled with the imposition of arbitrary restrictions on international humanitarian actors, is coercing humanitarian and medical actors to compromise on their safety and their principles.”

On Wednesday, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir claimed that top US Republican lawmakers support bombing “food and aid depots” in Gaza.

The statement, made in a social media post on Wednesday, came after the Israeli national security minister said that he had met “senior Republican Party officials at United States President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate” in Florida.

Mr Ben-Gvir said: “They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid depots should be bombed in order to create military and political pressure to bring our hostages home safely.” 

Mr Ben-Gvir’s office told Israeli media that leading Republican Congressman Tom Emmer was among the lawmakers present.