The death toll in Gaza has reached 970 people in 48 hours, health authorities in the Hamas-controlled territory said. Palestinian enclave, quoted by Reuters.
The total death toll has reached 49,547 people, according to the same source.
On Monday night into Tuesday, Israel renewed its shelling of the Gaza Strip, after a nearly two-month ceasefire.
"Military actions must stop immediately and good-faith negotiations led under the auspices of the United States must resume," said French President Emmanuel Macron, quoted by Agence France-Presse, in the presence of Jordanian King Abdullah II, whom he met at the French presidency.
"There is no military solution" to the conflict in the Palestinian territory, Macron stressed.
"We call for a permanent cessation of hostilities and the release of all hostages" held by "Hamas", he added. The Islamist organization has been "defeated" and is "deprived of its patron" who pushed it to the crime of October 7" 2023, now it is necessary to find a political solution, Macron believes.
The Jordanian head of state, for his part, stated that this is "an extremely dangerous stage", in which "new devastation is being added to an already catastrophic humanitarian situation". The international community must act immediately to "return to a ceasefire" and resuming humanitarian aid.
Israel's blocking of water and electricity supplies "puts the lives of an extremely vulnerable population at risk," King Abdullah II added.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was "extremely concerned by the renewed Israeli military action in Gaza." "The images of parents carrying their children to hospital are truly shocking, as are the numbers of those killed," he added.