The Palestinian Authority is talking about bloodshed in the southern Gaza Strip after Israel’s shelling that resulted in 35 people losing their lives.
However, his army Israel replied that it hit a compound where “important terrorists” were operating. “This horrific 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 camp displaced Barkasat, managed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and located northwest of A seamstress.
According to its principles Hamaswho is in power at Gaza Stripat least 35 people were killed and dozens more injured in the bombing.
After “the horrific Zionist massacre committed tonight by the criminal army of occupation 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 had arrived at a “large number” of dead and wounded.
“We know that civilians were harmed”
For its part, the Israeli army announced in the early hours of this morning that it launched a bombardment with “precision munitions” against a “Hamas building complex in Rafah” where, according to it, “important terrorists” of the Palestinian Islamist movement were operating, adding that it 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 Gaza. .
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 abducted and taken to Gaza. 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 launched wide-scale, devastating operations in Gaza 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 a terrorist organization by the Israeli government. , as well as 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 began in besieged Gaza 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.
Shortly before the war cabinet meeting last night in Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, “continues to demand an end to the war, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Strip Gaza and leave Hamas alone so it can commit more atrocities like those of October 7,” adding that it “strongly opposes” the demand to end the war.
New negotiations begin
Israeli media reported over the weekend that David Barnea, the head of the Mossad (Israel’s spy agency), had agreed with CIA Director William Burns and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdelrahman al-Thani on a new framework for the resumption. of indirect negotiations during talks in Paris.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, Spain, Ireland and Norway will officially recognize the state of Palestine. With this background, the EU Foreign Ministers are meeting today in Brussels with their counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, the UAE and Jordan, as well as with the Secretary General of the Arab League.
“We suffer”
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.
With information from newsit, Egypt, which refuses to open the terminal in Rafah as long as the Palestinian side is occupied by the Israeli armed forces, announced yesterday that trucks with aid from the Egyptian territory were able to enter the Gaza Strip through the point crossing Kerem Shalom, according to the Egyptian media Al-Cahra.
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 Gaza after the Israeli checks.
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