Israeli troops fight in the heart of Khan Younis, the main city in the south of the Gaza Strip and bastion of Hamaswhere the military offensive has been taking place since the beginning of December.
Meanwhile, the Army already has the action plan ready to expand its ground operations to Rafah, on the border with Egypt.
According to a military statement, the Bislamach brigade has joined the 98th division in the Khan Yunis area, in efforts “to defeat the Hamas terrorist organization.”
The Israeli offensive also continues in the center of the Strip, where the military command assures that two Hamas battalions remain operational, and where in the last day they killed “several terrorists”, including a cell that they eliminated with grenades and a missile. barbed wire.
International shock over the massacre in an aid distribution
At least 193 Gazans have died in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, and 920 were injured, according to the tally of the Ministry of Health of the enclave, controlled by Hamas.
The figure includes the 112 dead and 760 wounded that the ministry reported yesterday, in a chaotic incident in Gaza City during a distribution of food and humanitarian aid, in which Israel admitted to having opened fire on the crowd.
That massacre continues today, drawing international condemnation.
The presidents of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and of the European Council, Charles Michel, expressed this Friday dismay and disgust at the attack against civilians and urged that an independent investigation be carried out into what happened.
For his part, the high representative of the EU For Foreign Policy, the Spanish Josep Borrell, today declared himself “horrified” by the massacre, which in his opinion constitutes “a serious violation of international humanitarian law.”
“I am horrified by the news of another massacre among civilians in Gaza desperate for humanitarian aid. These deaths are totally unacceptable. “Depriving people of food aid constitutes a serious violation of international humanitarian law.”Borrell has denounced.
From the USA, the president of the United States, Joe Bidenhas recognized that this attack will complicate negotiations for a ceasefire and the release of hostages.
Biden no longer expects an agreement to be reached before next Monday, as he had outlined days ago, but he expressed “hope” that the pact will soon be closed.
The entire population of Gaza, close to famine
The entire population of the Gaza Strip, 2.2 million people, suffers from the most serious level of food insecurity and is increasingly approaching a situation of famine, a spokesperson for the United Nations Food Aid Coordination Office said today ( OCHA).
“The data we have today is that 2.2 million people, that is, the entire population, are at the worst level of food insecurity (…) although a portion of them are in an even worse situation”said spokesman Jens Laerke in a press conference.
The World Health Organization (WHO) He said, for his part, that this Thursday the death due to starvation of 10 hospitalized children was reported.
“These are official data, but as we all know the unofficial figures must be higher,” lamented WHO spokesperson Christian Lindrmeier.
Source: Gestion
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