US President Joe Biden has welcomed the pauses that formalize the Palestinian withdrawal agreement from the devastated northern Gaza Strip. In addition, he added that there is no possibility of a cessation of hostilities yet.
The Prime Minister of Israel stated that the country’s forces are carrying out the attack on the Gaza Strip extremely well. It was launched after Hamas militants entered the Jewish state on October 7, killing 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 240 hostages.
After vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel responded with aerial bombardment and a ground offensive that killed more than 10,800, according to the group’s health ministry in the Gaza Strip. people, mostly civilians, including many children.
B. Netanyahu added that Israel does not intend to occupy the Palestinian enclave.
“We do not seek to rule Gaza [Ruožo]. We don’t seek to occupy it, but we seek to give it and us a better future,” he told Fox News.
Tens of thousands of civilians have poured out of the devastated northern Gaza Strip in recent days.
Civilians are forced to retreat as both sides are currently engaged in heavy fighting.
UNRWA, the United Nations agency to support Palestinian refugees, reported that since November 4, about 70,000 people have left the northern part of the Palestinian enclave. people, most of them on foot.
From October 7, about 1.6 million Residents of the Gaza Strip were forced to leave their homes and move to a less dangerous part of the Palestinian enclave. More than half of the population of the Gaza Strip is said to have been forced to leave their homes.
However, according to UN estimates, hundreds of thousands of civilians remain in the northern part of the enclave, where the fiercest fighting is currently taking place.
While Mr. Biden welcomed the humanitarian pause, noting that it would help civilians reach safer areas without hindrance, he added that there was little sign that the hostilities would be halted for a longer period of time, as aid groups and the UN have called for.
“The ceasefire with Hamas means surrendering to Hamas, surrendering to terror,” the Israeli prime minister said.
“There will be no ceasefire without the release of the Israeli hostages, it will not happen,” he added.
Warning of possible humanitarian catastrophe
Aid groups are calling for an end to hostilities in the Gaza Strip and warning of a possible humanitarian catastrophe as residents run out of food, water and medicine.
“That’s the first thing I think about when I wake up: how am I going to feed the children today,” Amal al Robayaa told AFP in Rafah, where she is sheltering in a UN school with her husband, six children, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren.
Cecile Duflot, director of the refugee charity Oxfam France, said her staff had reported the tragic situation in Gaza. They said they had never seen anything like it.
Fierce clashes continued overnight, with Hamas-run local authorities accusing Israel of shelling several hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip.
Hamas reported that three hospitals were shelled overnight: Dar al Shifa, where about 60,000 people took refuge; people, al Rantisi Children’s Hospital and a medical facility established by the Indonesians.
The Palestinian group added that people were injured in the shelling.
Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals to hide its military operations. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the alleged overnight bombings.
Complicating Israel’s military action is the fate of the approximately 240 hostages kidnapped on October 7.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director William Burns and Israel’s Mossad chief David Barnea were in Doha to negotiate a pause that would include the release of hostages and more aid to the Gaza Strip, an official told AFP.
“everything stopped”
The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad released a video on Thursday that it said captured two hostages, a 70-year-old woman and a 13-year-old boy, being held in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli military spokesman Richard Hecht called the video psychological terrorism.
So far, Hamas has released four hostages. Families of other captives are pressing the Israeli and US authorities to free their loved ones.
“We don’t sleep well. We eat badly,” said Ronen Neutra, whose son Omer is being held hostage, in an interview with AFP.
“Everything stopped,” he added.
The situation in the Gaza Strip is getting worse every day due to the intensification of fighting.
Officials from Western and Arab countries, the UN and non-governmental organizations gathered in Paris on Thursday for a conference on aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip. It was decided to allocate 1.1 billion to the Palestinian enclave. dollars (1.03 billion euros). However, access to this area is still very limited, with around 100 trucks entering the area per day, significantly less than before the war.
“In our most conservative scenario, this conflict [Palestinos teritorijų] can set back development by more than a decade,” Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), told AFP.
But Israeli officials insist there is no humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
Violence has increased in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since the conflict began, with at least 14 Palestinians killed on Thursday alone, according to the Ramallah-based Ministry of Health.
The war between Israel and Hamas has also increased tensions in the Middle East. The Jewish army and the Lebanese Hezbollah group have repeatedly exchanged fire across the border, and Iran-backed Yemeni Houthi rebels have said they have fired ballistic missiles into southern Israel.
A drone struck a school in the southern Israeli city of Eilat on Thursday. Israeli air defense systems later intercepted the missile over the Red Sea, the military said.
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2024-09-25 04:53:17
