2024-02-17 10:18:25
The Israeli army says it has so far arrested around 100 terror suspects during its operation in the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, while the US is preparing to deliver more bombs and weapons to Israel despite pressure for a ceasefire, according to a media report, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is warning Jerusalem not to open a new front in the north of the country.
On Saturday at the Munich Security Conference, Scholz warned the Israeli government to prevent attacks by radical Jewish settlers in the West Bank and not to open a new front in the north of the country on the border with Lebanon: “It should be impossible for Iran to exploit this situation to gain its influence to expand in the region.” But Germany is clearly on Israel’s side. The Israeli government is asked to comply with international humanitarian law.
The Israeli military said on Saturday that those arrested at Khan Younis hospital were “people suspected of being involved in terrorist activities.”
According to the Hamas health authority, many of those arrested were medical staff, and five patients in the intensive care unit have died due to a power outage during the Israeli operation. The authority had previously warned that other patients and babies in incubators were at risk. Israel is preventing the transport of seriously ill patients to other hospitals and blocking a UN aid convoy on the way to Nasser Hospital.
The Israeli army, however, asserted that it had not attacked the power supply. The unit working there had strict instructions to ensure the continued functioning of the hospital. She replaced a defective generator with a replacement device from Israel. None of the information provided by either party might be independently verified. Israeli soldiers entered Nasser Hospital on Thursday to recover the bodies of hostages, according to the army. The military has not yet commented on whether this was successful.
Meanwhile, the US is preparing to deliver more bombs and weapons to Israel despite calls for a ceasefire, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday night, citing current and former US officials. The plans are currently being examined within the administration of US President Joe Biden and might change in detail before they are submitted to the US Congress for approval.
The US is Israel’s ally and has repeatedly supported the state with additional weapons and ammunition since the start of the war once morest Hamas in Gaza. However, the US is now urging Israel to switch from massive bombings to more precise strikes once morest the terrorist organization Hamas. According to the Wall Street Journal, the newly proposed arms delivery also includes precision weapons. Biden calls on Israel to reduce the risk of civilian casualties and accept a ceasefire. He is firmly convinced that there must be “a temporary ceasefire” to free the hostages. “I hope that the Israelis will not mount a massive ground offensive in the meantime,” Biden said Friday. He expects that won’t happen.
Egypt, meanwhile, denied reports on Saturday that it was setting up a camp to house Palestinian refugees. Cairo is once morest the expulsion of Palestinians and also once morest the voluntary departure from the Gaza Strip, said the head of the State Information Service (SIS), Diaa Rashwan. However, Egypt had built a buffer zone and fences in the coastal strip on its side of the border long before the start of the Israeli military operation, the statement continued on Friday evening.
Several media outlets had previously reported the construction of facilities to accommodate up to 100,000 Palestinians in buildings and tents surrounded by a high wall.
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