Her presidency Palestinian Authority and the Hamas they accused Israel of committing “slaughter” of civilians targeting IDP reception center near Rafain the southern Gaza Strip, with the Israeli military saying for its part that it struck a compound where it said “significant terrorists” were operating.
“This gruesome massacre committed by the Israeli occupation is a challenge to all international institutions” and international “legitimacy”, the presidency of the Palestinian Authority underlined in a statement, denouncing that the Israeli army “deliberately targeted” the displaced persons camp Barkasat, which is managed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and is located northwest of Rafah.
According to the authorities of Hamas, which is in power in the Gaza Strip, at least 35 people were killed and dozens more wounded in the shelling.
After “the horrific Zionist massacre committed tonight by the criminal occupation army targeting displaced persons’ tents, we call on the masses of our people in the West Bank, Jerusalem, the occupied territories and abroad to rise up and march in rage,” he said in a statement. the Palestinian Islamist movement.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that ambulances arrived at its “large number” of dead and wounded.
“Significant Terrorists”
For its part, the Israeli army announced in the early morning hours today that it fired bombing with “precision munitions” against a “Hamas building complex in Rafah” where according to him “important terrorists” of the Palestinian Islamist movement were operating, adding that he is “aware” that “civilians were harmed” in the area and that the incident is “under investigation”.
According to the same source, the target was two Hamas officials in the West Bank, Yassin Rabia and Khaled Nagar.
“The raid was carried out against legitimate targets under international law, using precision munitions, based on accurate intelligence on Hamas’ use of the area,” he added.
The Israeli army has been conducting operations since May 7 to destroy what it says are the last battalions of Hamas’ military arm in Rafah. Hostilities continued over the weekend, despite a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Friday ordering Israel to suspend military action in the area, which is critical for humanitarian aid to enter the enclave. .
Shelling was also reported in other areas in Rafah yesterday. The Kuwaiti hospital reported that three bodies were brought to it, including a pregnant woman.
In Tel Aviv and central Israel, alarm sirens sounded yesterday afternoon for the first time in months. The Israeli military said eight rockets were fired from Rafah and added that it bombed the city in retaliation.
According to a senior Israeli official, a meeting of Israel’s wartime government was held overnight on efforts to secure the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of war on October 7.
“Atrocities”
On that day, a raid by Hamas’ military arm based in the Gaza Strip against southern sectors of Israeli territory killed more than 1,170 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data.
Another 252 people were kidnapped and taken to the Palestinian enclave. After a week-long ceasefire in November that freed about 100, 121 hostages are still believed to be in the hands of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, but 37 of them are believed to be dead, according to the Israeli military.
In retaliation, Israel’s military has launched large-scale, devastating operations in the Palestinian enclave that have killed at least 35,984 people, the vast majority of them civilians, according to data from the health ministry of Hamas, an organization designated by Israel as a terrorist organization. government, like those of the US and the EU.
Yesterday the Israeli army announced that it had suffered two more casualties. Officially, 289 Israeli soldiers have been killed since ground operations in the besieged enclave began on October 27.
Last night thousands of Israelis attended the funeral of hostage Hanan Yablonka, who was killed on October 7 and whose body was found on Friday. “They all have to go home,” his sister Avivit Yablonka said before the ceremony.
On the 234th day of the war, international efforts to broker a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which seized power in the Gaza Strip in 2007, continue.
Just before the war cabinet meeting last night in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Hamas’ leader in the enclave, Yahya Sinwar, “continues to demand an end to the war, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, and that Hamas be left alone so it can commit more atrocities like its October 7,” adding that he “strongly opposes” the demand to end the war.
In Brussels
Over the weekend, Israeli media reported that Mr David Barnea, the head of the Mossad (of Israel’s spy agency) agreed with CIA Director William Burns and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdelrahman al-Thani on a new framework for resuming indirect negotiations during talks in Paris.
It is against this background that they meet today in Brussels EU Foreign Ministers with their counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, the UAE and Jordanas well as with the Secretary General of the Arab League.
“Hunger and Thirst”
The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip remains catastrophic.
The crossing point at Rafah, on the border with Egypt, remains closed after the Israeli army’s ground operation began. Until the beginning of the month, this was the main gateway through which humanitarian aid entered.
“We are suffering (…) from hunger, from thirst, from the lack of help,” said Muaz Abu Taha, a 29-year-old Palestinian in the city where some 800,000 people have fled in the past two weeks, according to UN estimates.
Egypt, which refuses to open the terminal at Rafah while the Israeli armed forces hold the Palestinian side of it, announced yesterday that aid trucks from the Egyptian territory were able to enter the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing, according to the Egyptian media outlet Al Cairo.
According to the outlet, which is believed to have ties to the Egyptian intelligence service, about “200 trucks” were headed for Kerem Shalom. He did not specify how many of them entered the Palestinian enclave after Israeli inspections.
Source: RES-MPE
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