Israeli occupation forces have intensified their onslaught on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 94 Palestinians, most of them women and children, over the past two days, local authorities reported on Sunday.

According to the Government Media Office in Gaza, Israeli warplanes and artillery carried out 131 air and ground strikes targeting densely populated neighborhoods and areas sheltering displaced families. At least 61 people were killed in Gaza City alone, with dozens of others injured or missing beneath the rubble.

“This ongoing crime falls within the framework of the continuous genocide against our Palestinian people,” the media office said in a statement. “The occupation disregards all international calls for de-escalation, insisting on continuing the systematic killing of civilians and the destruction of life in the Gaza Strip.”

Despite growing international appeals for an immediate ceasefire, the Zionist regime has pressed ahead with its campaign of destruction. Residential blocks, shelters, and humanitarian facilities have all been struck, compounding the suffering of Gaza’s exhausted population, most of whom have already been displaced multiple times since the war began.

The Gaza Government Media Office urged the U.S. administration and the international community to take “serious, effective, and immediate action” to halt the aggression, ensure a ceasefire, and hold Israel accountable for its crimes.

The escalation came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office claimed readiness to implement the first phase of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan, which includes the release of all Israeli captives.

Israeli media further reported that the regime’s political leadership had ordered a partial reduction in military operations in Gaza City, while continuing what it calls “defensive operations” across the Strip — a characterization widely dismissed by observers as an attempt to obscure ongoing war crimes.

Trump’s 20-point proposal, announced on September 29, calls for the release of Israeli captives within 72 hours of Israel’s approval, a ceasefire, and the disarmament of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas. However, Palestinian factions and analysts have rejected the plan as one-sided, noting that it fails to address Israel’s occupation, siege, and mass imprisonment of Palestinians.

Tel Aviv claims that 48 Israeli captives remain in Gaza, of whom 20 are alive, while Israel holds more than 11,100 Palestinian prisoners, including women, children, and elected officials — many suffering from torture, hunger, and medical neglect, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations.

Since the start of the Israeli onslaught in October 2023, over 67,000 Palestinians have been killed, the majority women and children, while tens of thousands more have been injured. Much of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure — homes, schools, hospitals, mosques, and universities — has been reduced to rubble.

With entire neighborhoods wiped out and humanitarian aid largely blocked, Gaza’s population faces the gravest catastrophe in its history. The world’s silence, Palestinians say, only deepens the wounds of a genocide that has already stripped Gaza of its people, its institutions, and its right to live in peace and dignity. (ILKHA)