Israel has airdropped tons of supplies to ground troops in Gaza, an operation that not carried out since the second war against Lebanon in 2006, as reported by the Israeli Army. Israeli forces have used this system for the first time in the offensive against Hamas in the Palestinian Strip.

Some seven tons of logistical supplies have been released in recent days for hundreds of fighters in the Khan Yunis areain the south of the Palestinian enclave, in a joint operation of air and logistics units, with a Samson-type cargo plane.

Load was parachuted in support of the 98th division of the Israeli Army fighting in the area, whose capabilities include providing logistics by air or sea when it is not possible by land, according to the statement.

Israel fights on land, sea and air against Hamas in different areas of Gaza, with attacks in the north of the Strip against objectives such as its infrastructure to launch missiles or in the south to control cities like Khan Yunis, which it considers a stronghold of the Islamist group.

Israeli artillery has begun to operate in the Strip, with fighting in practically the entire Palestinian enclave, which have become more acute in cities like Khan Yunis. The dead in Gaza due to Israel’s offensive exceed 18,000 and the injured exceed 49,200, according to the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Strip, controlled by Hamas.

For its part, the Israeli Army raises the number of deaths in its ranks to 430 since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 that sparked the war. of them 101 since the offensive in the Strip began on the 27th of that month. The wounded in their ranks reach 1,593, 559 of them since the beginning of the offensive. The attack by the Islamist group on October 7 caused nearly 1,200 deaths and about 240 kidnapped who were taken to the Strip.

The high representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, has stated that Israel must not use the same military tactics against the Islamist movement Hamas in southern Gaza than it has deployed so far in the north. “We have been saying in the G7 meetings and in others that Israel should not use in the south the same tactics that it has been using in the north of Gaza. But it is the same, if not even worse,” said Borrell upon his arrival. to a Council of EU Foreign Ministers.

Borrell has echoed that the members of the European Union in the UN Security Council They voted last Friday in favor of the secretary general’s proposal of the organization, António Guterres, for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. “Unfortunately, the United States vetoed this proposal, so there is no Security Council-approved call for a ceasefire,” he said.

The head of community diplomacy has stressed that “the number of innocent civilian victims continues to increase”, and advocated that the EU countries agree to “some type of request – if a ceasefire is not possible, because it has not been approved by the Security Council – a series of pauses so that the humanitarian situation is less horrible. “Thousands of people are pushed against the border with Egypt and all prospects are very, very bleak in Gaza,” he stressed.

Thus, he stated that the ministers of the Twenty-seven will debate what the European response will be on the basis of a document that he has presented to them on the future of Gaza and its population. “once the attacks stop”. “People keep saying that (Gazanis) should not be expelled from their land. But it’s hard to keep saying that when people are fleeing the bombings and looking for shelters, but there are no shelters in Gaza anymore,” he said. no safe place in Gaza, that’s what the United Nations says,” Borrell added.