2023-10-11 17:17:38
While air attacks destroyed entire neighborhoods of Gaza, Israel announced on Wednesday the formation of a unity government, during the war against the terrorist organization.
While the Israeli army continued to prepare on Wednesday to a large-scale operation aimed at eradicating HamasPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu obtained training froma unity governmenta “war cabinet”, for the duration of hostilities. The agreement, reached with centrist leader Benyamin Gantz, comes after four days of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, which destroyed entire neighborhoodsin retaliation for the terrorist attack carried out on Saturday by the armed wing of Hamas, the bloodiest the Jewish state has known.
For now, the complete blockade remained in place, preventing deliveries of water, fuel, food and medicine.
On Wednesday morning, an Israeli army spokesperson indicated that at least 1,200 Israelis, mainly civilians, had been killed in the October 7 attacks, reviewing the official death toll by several hundred deaths, following the discovery of new mass graves. To the bloody propaganda images broadcast by Hamas were added those taken by the international press, notably invited by the army to document the massacre of Kfar Aza, a village which was one of the first targets of the attackers, and which It was only recaptured after two days by the Israeli army.
Dealing a fatal blow to “Gaza Daesh”
The formation of the unity government with Netanyahu marks the desire of the Israeli political class to temporarily put under cover the question of the internal failures which allowed an attack of such magnitude, while the information according to which Egypt had alerted Israel several days before was confirmed Wednesday by an influential American elected official, Republican Michael McCaul, head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The Israeli army mobilized infantry and artillery with a view to leading the assault against what it now presents as “the Daesh of Gaza”: some 300,000 men, in different brigades and divisions were positioned near the Gaza Strip, and were preparing to “ensure that Hamas, at the end of this war, no longer has any military capacity”, according to a spokesperson for the Jewish state army. The United States was participating in the preparations: a first American plane loaded with equipment had landed in Israel on Wednesday, and “many others” would follow, according to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Talks for a humanitarian corridor
“Civilians must be protected at all times. International humanitarian law must be respected and defended.”
On the other side of the surrounding wall, Air raid casualties continued to rise, local authorities spoke on Wednesday of 1,055 dead and more than 5,000 injured. Some 220,000 people took refuge in prison facilities. the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which also announced the death of 9 of its employees in the raids. “Civilians must be protected at all times. International humanitarian law must be respected and defended,” stressed the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, while civilians seeking to escape the bombings remained prisoners of the enclave.
Egyptian and American sources reported discussions on establishing a limited ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid to be sent to Gaza via the Rafah crossing point, on the Egyptian border, or even the establishment of safe passage for civilians. But for now, the complete blockade remained in place, preventing deliveries of water, fuel, food and medicine. Gaza’s only power plant shut down at midday on Wednesday due to lack of dieselhanding overloaded hospitals to their generators and cutting off Gazans’ access to communications.
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