On the 217th day of the war, the Israel multiplies them today aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip after the withdrawal, without an agreement, of the Israeli delegation and its own Hamas from the table of indirect negotiations with the aim of establishing a ceasefire and preventing an Israeli ground attack on Rafah.
In the early hours of the morning, AFP teams reported hearing artillery fire against Rafah, and eyewitnesses spoke of airstrikes in Gaza City and the Jabalia refugee camp in the north.
At the same time, Hamas distributed to other Palestinian organizations a message about the situation, as it sees it, regarding the indirect negotiations that were repeated from yesterday Wednesday in Cairo.
Gaza: Deadlock in ceasefire negotiations, US-Israel “rift”.
“The negotiating delegation left Cairo for Doha. The occupation rejected the proposal submitted by the mediators and we accepted. Consequently, the ball is now completely in the occupation’s court,” a letter from Hamas to other Palestinian factions states – the movement consistently refers to the state of Israel using this term.
The delegations of Hamas and Israel left Cairo after “two days of negotiations”, reported the Al-Cahra media, which is believed to have ties to the Egyptian intelligence service, assuring that the efforts of the mediating countries (Qatar, Egypt, USA) continue, with the aim of bringing about a “convergence of views” of the conflicting sides.
The director of the CIA, William Burns, who actively participated in the talks, while making contacts in Cairo and Jerusalem, is returning to the USA today, announced John Kirby, the representative of the National Security Council of the US presidency.
Hamas gave the green light to the proposal submitted to it by mediators, which, according to its official, provided for three phases of 42 hours each, including the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops and the exchange of Israeli hostages in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israel, with the ultimate goal of a “permanent ceasefire”.
But the Israeli government responded that this proposal was “far from its demands”, repeating that it opposes a definitive cease-fire as long as Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by itself, the US and the EU, has not been “defeated”. .
“Ourselves”
To achieve this goal, Israeli Prime Minister calls it necessary to carry out a large-scale ground operation in Rafah, where he says the “last” ranks of the Palestinian Islamist movement are hiding, but where some 1.4 million Palestinians, the vast majority of them displaced from other areas, have also taken refuge war.
Defying international warnings, the Israeli military has been conducting “targeted” operations in eastern Rafah since Tuesday, while seizing control of the Palestinian side of the Gaza Strip’s border crossing with Egypt — closing the most critical entry point for convoys with humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The American president Joe Biden threatened to suspend deliveries of certain types of bombs in the event of a major operation in Rafah, issuing the strongest warning from Washington – Israel’s main arms supplier – since the armed conflict began.
The war broke out on October 7 when Hamas’s military arm launched an unprecedented raid on southern sectors of Israeli territory that killed more than 1,170 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data.
More than 250 people were kidnapped and 128 remain in the hands of Hamas in Gaza, of whom 36 are believed to be dead, according to the Israeli military.
In retaliation, Israel, which has vowed to “wipe out” Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, launched military operations in the Gaza Strip that have so far claimed the lives of at least 34,904 people, the vast majority of them civilians, according to the Palestinian movement’s health ministry.
“If we have to be alone, we will be alone. I’ve already said it, if we have to, we’ll fight with our claws”the prime minister said yesterday Netanyahuapparently addressing President Biden.
The spokesman of the Israeli army, Major General Daniel Hagari, for his part, assured that his forces have enough weapons and ammunition at their disposal to carry out “the mission in Rafah”.
The Israeli army also reported that its forces killed “about fifty” Palestinian fighters in eastern Rafah.
Last night, the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken he spoke with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry and reiterated US opposition to “a large-scale military operation in Rafah” and “rejection” of any “forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza”.
According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), whose offices in Jerusalem were the target of a new arson attack by “Israeli extremists”, some 80,000 people have fled Rafah after the army ordered, at the beginning of the week, the civilian population to be urgently removed from the eastern part of Rafah.
The Israeli army, for its part, spoke yesterday of 150,000.
Some made their way to Khan Yunis, a city reduced to rubble a few kilometers to the north. Still others have no idea where they are supposed to go.
“Tanks Everywhere”
Although yesterday was Wednesday reopened the Kerem Shalom crossingwhich remained closed for three days due to rocket fire according to the Israeli side, the distribution of aid remains an “extremely difficult” undertaking, Andrea de Domenico, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) branch, told AFP yesterday. Nations in the Palestinian territories.
“It’s crazy,” the Israeli army “deployed tanks everywhere, soldiers in the field, bombarding eastern Rafah and telling us to go find fuel and basic goods” in war zones, while “knowing that we simply cannot go,” he insisted. .
“The situation is catastrophic,” UNICEF executive director Kathryn Russell said, warning that if fuel is not allowed in, “incubators for premature babies will no longer be fed, children and families will be dehydrated or drinking water that is not safe.” it is potable and the sewers will overflow spreading disease.’
The Gaza Strip is on the agenda today special session of the UN General Assembly.
Source: RES-MPE
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