Israel continued bombing on Tuesday Gaza Strip after indicating that his offensive will intensify and that he will not stop until “demilitarize” and “deradicalize” the Palestinian territory governed by the Islamist movement Hamas.
In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, smoke was visible after the bombings. According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, thirty bodies were transferred in the last 24 hours to the Nasser hospital in that town.
The Israeli army announced that it had bombed more than a hundred targets in the last few hours, including access to Hamas tunnels and military positions, especially in Jabaliya (north) and Khan Younis.
”Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized and Palestinian society must be deradicalized. “These are the three requirements for peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors in Gaza,” stated the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu in an article in the Wall Street Journal.
The chief of staff of the Israeli army, Herzi Halevi, stated that the war “It will continue for several more months” and that Israel will seekpreserve [sus] achievements for a long time. Netanyahu had announced on Monday, during a visit to his troops in Gaza, that Israel was preparing to “intensify the fighting in the coming days.”
The Gaza Strip, subjected by Israel to a total siege since October 9, was on Tuesday even more isolated from the rest of the world due to a new cut of fixed telecommunications and the Internet, caused by “the continuation of the aggression”indicated the Palestinian telecommunications company.
The war forced 1.9 million people, 85% of Gaza’s population, to leave their homes, according to the UNwho expressed his “deep concern” for the bombings and urged the Israeli army to take all possible measures to protect Palestinian civilians.
“Heartbreaking stories”
According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, a total of 20,915 people, mostly women and minors, have died since the start of Israeli operations in Gaza on October 7. Israel launched its offensive after the incursion of Islamist commandos that killed in the south of the country to 1,140 people, most of them civilians.
Some 250 people were kidnapped, of whom 129 remain captive in Gaza, according to Israeli authorities. According to the army, 158 soldiers have been killed since the start of the ground offensive on October 27.
The World Health Organization (WHO)who visited the Deir al Balah hospital in central Gaza on Monday after a bombing in the nearby Al Maghazi refugee camp, recorded “heartbreaking stories” about entire families being decimated, indicated the director general of that UN agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The bombing of Al Maghazi killed 70 people, according to Hamas.
The Israeli army said it was “verifying the incident”. The entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza has not increased significantly, despite the UN Security Council voting on Friday on a resolution calling for the shipment “in“mediate, on a large scale and without obstacles” of the material.
Pressure on Israel
In Israel, pressure is mounting to free the hostages. Relatives of the captives interrupted a speech by Netanyahu in Parliament on Monday, with shouts of “Now! Now!” “What if it were your son”?, “80 days, every minute is hell”, could be read on the banners.
Hamas, considered a terrorist group by Israel, the United States and the European Union, demands an end to the fighting before starting new negotiations on an exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
The Egyptian and Qatari mediators are trying to achieve a new truce, after which at the end of November allowed the release of 105 hostages in one week in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners in Israel, in addition to the entry into Gaza of humanitarian aid from Egypt.
In the occupied West Bank, where violence has spiked since the outbreak of the conflict in Gaza, two Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli army on Tuesday.
US bombings in Iraq – Fears are also increasing that the conflict will spread to the region. On the border between Lebanon and Israel, there are almost daily exchanges of fire between the Hezbollah group, an ally of Hamas, and the Israeli army.
And the Yemen Houthisbacked by Iran, are multiplying their attacks against ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea. The United States announced on Tuesday that it had bombed three positions of pro-Iranian groups in Iraq.
The Iraqi government denounced a “hostile act”which killed a member of the security forces and injured 18 people. Iran accused Israel of having killed one of its senior officials in a missile attack in Syria on Monday.
The Guardians of the Revolution, the Iranian ideological army, indicated that it was General Razi Moussavi, a “logistics manager of the resistance axis” against Israel, made up of Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis.
Source: Gestion
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