2023-10-28 18:47:43
Benjamin Netanyahuthe Israeli prime minister, said this Saturday that the war once morest Hamas in the Gaza Strip will be “long and difficult” and added that from this “new phase” of the war, the city will be “a battlefield.”
“The war in the Gaza Strip will be long and difficult and we are ready” to fight it, the president said at a news conference in Tel Aviv, adding that the army “will destroy the enemy on land and underground”in a clear reference to the network of tunnels through which, according to Israel, Hamas circumvents the blockade of the city.
For your partHamas proposes to exchange the hostages which he kidnapped in his October 7 attack on Israel by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
“Since Friday night, a combined force of tanks, engineers and infantry has been operating on the ground in the northern Gaza Strip,” detailed an Israeli military statement this Saturday, October 28. “We entered a new phase of the war. Yesterday, the earth shook in Gaza“said Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. “We attack on the surface and underground, we attack terrorists at all levels, in all places,” he continued.
2.4 million inhabitants live in the attacked territory, isolated and deprived of everything. for the cutting of most telecommunications and the internet, but for the Israeli army, the entire Gaza City area is a “battlefield” and urged the population to “immediately evacuate” the town to the south of the fringe.
The bombings began on October 7 in retaliation for the Hamas attack that left 1,400 dead, of which only 300 were soldiers and the rest civilians of all ages, according to Israeli authorities.
According to information from the Ministry of Health of Hamas, which governs Gaza, there are already 7,703 people, mainly civilians, who died in the Israeli bombings and 3,500 are children.
The voice of the United Nations and the questioning of the Israeli government
The United Nations warned that a large-scale ground military incursion by Israel might lead to “thousands more civilian deaths.” The secretary general of the organization, António Guterres harshly criticized this “unprecedented escalation” of bombings and demanded an “immediate” ceasefire.
Furthermore, relatives of those taken hostage by Hamas are worried regarding their loved ones following the bombings and demanded explanations from the government. Netanyahu agreed to receive them and assured that he was willing to examine “all options” to free the people kidnapped and transferred to Gaza, while the armed wing of the Islamist movement stated on Thursday that “almost 50” hostages had died in Israeli bombings since October 7.
According to information released by Israel, in the north they hit “150 underground targets”, where, according to what they maintain, Hamas directs its operations from a gigantic network of tunnels. At the same time, the night attacks destroyed hundreds of buildings and “changed the landscape” of the northern Strip, according to the enclave’s civil protection service.
European positions regarding the conflict
The head of diplomacy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, called for a “pause in hostilities” pto allow access for humanitarian aid, since since October 21, only 84 trucks of humanitarian aid have arrived in Gaza from neighboring Egypt. According to the UN, at least a hundred a day would be necessary.
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For its part, TUrquia, a NATO member country, denounced “massacres” in Gaza and attributed responsibility to Western powers, following which Israel recalled its diplomats in Ankara. “The main culprits of the massacres in Gaza are the Westerners. With the exception of some consciences who raised their voices, These massacres are entirely the work of the West“, declared the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at a “rally in support of Palestine.”
At the same time in London, this Saturday, thousands of people participated in a demonstration in support of the Palestinians.
There were also protests in Paris to denounce the bombings of Gaza.
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