2023-10-15 18:34:00
Israel continues this Sunday, October 15, to concentrate troops in front of the Gaza Strip in view of a ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave, where the bombings unleashed following the Hamas offensive once morest their territory have already left more than 2,600 dead and a million displaced.
The Israeli army Since Friday, it has warned the 1.1 million inhabitants of northern Gaza to flee south due to a possible incursion into the enclave, around which tens of thousands of soldiers were stationed. The troops are waiting for the order to take action to fulfill the objective of destroying Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2007, army spokesmen reported.
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The Gaza Strip, an enclave of 362 km2, where more than 2.3 million inhabitants live, has been the scene of daily bombings since the offensive launched by Hamas once morest Israel on October 7. The bombings have so far killed 2,670 people, including more than 700 children, according to local authorities.
The commandos of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, an organization classified as terrorist by the United States, the European Union (EU) and Israel, for their part, They also captured 155 people who are being held hostage..
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited troops stationed near Gaza on Saturday and warned that the offensive is still far from over. “Are you prepared for what is to come? It will continue,” he declared in his speech to the troops.
The Israeli army has already carried out incursions into the enclave, where they found some “corpses” of the kidnapped hostages. Hamas said 22 “prisoners” had been killed in the Israeli bombings.
According to military spokesman Richard Hecht, the target is now the head of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, considered the mastermind of that operation.
The head of the Israeli Air Force, General Tomer Bar, announced that his planes are facilitating the conditions for a possible The Army’s large-scale ground intervention in the Gaza Strip, the first of its kind since Operation Cast Lead in 2008.
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“We are diligently eliminating threats from the ground and air and will take an aggressive approach to ensure that our military can act effectively during a ground operation,” he told the newspaper. Haaretz.
The Israeli commander also warned that The Armed Forces have plenty of capacity to address the current escalation of clashes in northern Israelcurrently the scene of exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli Army.
“Although we are focused right now on the southern area, we are fully prepared for any evolution of events that may take place in the north,” he warned. “The Air Force is well equipped,” he added, “to respond to threats and participate in a war scenario in the area.”
The United States fears that Iran will become “directly” involved in the conflict
He Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hussein Amir Abdollahian, warned that “no one will be able to guarantee” control of the situation. if Israel invades Gaza. Given this, the United States said it fears an “escalation” of the conflict due to the possible “direct involvement of Iran,” according to what the White House National Security Advisor stated on Sunday.
Interviewed on the CBS television network, Jake Sullivan cited the possibility of a new battle front on the border between Israel and Lebanon and noted: “We cannot rule out that Iran decides to get directly involved in some way. We have to prepare for any eventuality.”
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“It is a risk, and it is a risk that we have been aware of from the beginning” of the conflict, said Joe Biden’s advisor. “That’s why the president acted so quickly and decisively to move an aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean, to bring planes to the Gulf, because he sent a very clear message to any state or entity that tries to take advantage of this situation,” Sullivan said.
On Saturday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced that the United States would send a second aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean, cin order to “deter hostile actions once morest Israel or any attempt to expand this war.”
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby also said Sunday that the United States was “concerned” regarding the conflict. “We don’t want to see another terrorist group like Hezbollah expanding this and opening fronts to distract from the fight once morest Hamas,” he said in an interview on Fox News.
The Lebanese Shiite movement Iran-backed Hezbollah claimed responsibility for several attacks on Israeli positions since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas.
“Of course, Iran is largely complicit, and that has allowed Hamas to operate and carry out the terrorist attacks that it has carried out,” Kirby charged. However, she reiterated that they have no information indicating Iran’s “specific involvement in the attack” by Hamas on October 7.
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“An unprecedented genocide”
The Arab League and the African Union They warned this Sunday of “an unprecedented genocide” in the Gaza Strip if Israel carries out its threat and begins a ground offensive on the coastal territory, controlled by Hamas.
The main officials of both blocks urged the United Nations and the entire international community to take measures to prevent what they foresee as a “catastrophe”, “before it is too late”, reads a joint statement published this Sunday.
The Arab League and the African Union agree on their “concern” regarding the Israeli ultimatum on the northern part of the Strip, which involves the forced evacuation of more than a million people, since they consider it to be a violation of International Law.
In this sense, they demanded an “immediate” cessation of the attacks and international coordination so that aid can enter “urgently” into the Gaza Strip, a territory where more than two million people live.
They also recalled that the “only guarantee of long-term security” for the entire region remains the two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians.
Israel prepares for ground invasion of Gaza: more than a million displaced
Israel’s ultimatums to evacuate the north of the territory caused a “massive” displacement of the population, indicated the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). According to the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), there are already close to a million displaced people and the number threatens to increase.
After the Hamas incursion, Israel ordered a “total” siege of the enclave, cutting off the supply of water, electricity and food to the Strip, already subject to a strict blockade since 2006. Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz announced this Sunday that the water supply had been restored to the south of the enclave.
UNRWA stated that an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe” was occurring in Gaza. “Not a drop of water, not a grain of wheat, not a liter of fuel was allowed to enter Gaza in the last eight days”said Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA,
Thousands of residents have been fleeing south since Friday amid ruins and with their belongings hastily stacked in trailers, carts, motorcycles and cars. But the southern part of the enclave is also the target of bombing, according to residents, and its hospitals are overwhelmed.
On the other side of the border, Israelis were also moving towards safer areas. The situation in Gaza worries both for its humanitarian aspect and for its potential to provoke a regional conflagration. The Arab League and the African Union stated in a joint statement that an invasion of the Strip “might lead to a genocide of unprecedented proportions.”
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