Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a new strategic phase of the war. International community asks to direct the humanitarian truce.
With a series of ground operations in the Gaza Strip, Israel entered a second stage of the war conflict with Hamaswhich involves the occupation of the territory to reduce the operational capacity of the palestinian army and the recovery of hostages.
This was announced in a televised speech by the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu: “Since Friday night, a combined force of tanks, engineers and infantry operates on the ground in the north of the Gaza Strip“. In this context, the official said that “the Israel Defense Forces are the most moral army in the world“, as opposed to Hamas and his ally Iran: “That’s him Axis of evilagainst the free world and the moderates of the Arab world“.
“We warn the people of Loop to move south and, instead, our enemy uses hospitals already civilians in its operations,” he said Netanyahu who noted that he met with relatives of hostages: “I assured them that we will spare no resources to bring their loved ones home. Their captivity is a crime against humanity“.
For his part, the minister of Defense of Israel, Yoav Gallantexplained that in this new stage “the force of the fire shook the ground of Gazaand it is different from everything Hamas has experienced since its creation.” “Hamas is suffering blows that it has never suffered before,” he added, but affirmed that “it will be a long war.”
Israel-Hamas war: how many victims are there
The number of Palestinian fatalities in Loop -a population of about 2.4 million citizens- increased this Saturday to 7703 people, with 377 deaths recorded in the last operation, during the night of Friday. Among the total deaths there would be 3100 children.
Added to the total siege in the region is that, after the last bombings, Loop lost all kinds of communication and Internet. “The communications blackout is one more action to try to prevent the humanitarian response to the civilians of the Gaza Strip“, he stated in this regard Philippe LazzariniCommissioner General of the Agency UN for the Palestinian Refugees.
While officials of the UN insist on the need to start negotiations peace and of hostage release -which would amount to 229 between Israelis, binationals and foreigners- Ravina Shamdasanispokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human rightsassured that “we are very concerned about the fact that war crimes. We are concerned about collective punishment inflicted on the inhabitants of Loop in response to the atrocious attacks of Hamaswhich also constitute war crimes”.
Source: Ambito
