2023-11-08 22:44:10
According to a spokesman, Israel’s army wants to enable civilians from the northern Gaza Strip to escape to the south on Thursday. “We will continue to maintain this humanitarian corridor to the south,” army spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Wednesday. This also applies to Thursday. Accordingly, an estimated 50,000 people used the evacuation corridor on Wednesday.
According to its own statements, the military is currently fighting the facilities of the Islamist Hamas, which rules in the Gaza Strip, especially in the north, and has been calling on the population there to flee to the south for several weeks. But according to eyewitnesses, Israeli air strikes also occur regularly there. An army spokesman said last week that the area in the south was not a “safe zone” but was safer “than any other place in Gaza.”
According to Hagari, the Israeli troops intensified their offensive in the city of Gaza in the evening. Hagari said that the Hamas leadership in the north was losing “more and more influence.” “They’re just concerned with their own survival,” Hagari said. The information might not be independently verified.
Israel’s President Benjamin Netanyahu has once more mentioned the release of the hostages in the Gaza Strip as a condition for a ceasefire. “I want to put aside all kinds of false rumors that we hear from all possible directions and make one thing clear: there will be no ceasefire without the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu said on Wednesday evening. Everything else is wrong. However, it was unclear whether he meant releasing all the hostages at once.
There had previously been several unconfirmed media reports of negotiations for a humanitarian ceasefire in return for the release of up to 15 hostages in the Gaza Strip. A high-ranking member of the Islamist Hamas, Osama Hamdan, told the German Press Agency in the evening that “serious negotiations” were currently underway. However, there is concern that Israel is not responding to the negotiators’ efforts. Israeli military spokesman Hagari said of the media reports: “We must not be confused by the commentators. There is no ceasefire; there is no ceasefire; we are fighting once morest Hamas; there is no ceasefire.”
Terrorists from the Islamist Hamas and other extremist groups attacked Israel on October 7th and carried out a massacre in the border area. According to the military, at least 239 people were kidnapped into the Gaza Strip. Four hostages have been released so far and one kidnapped soldier has been freed. A coalition of relatives of the hostages said any move toward a ceasefire must include the release of “all hostages from Gaza.”
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