He conflict in Gaza does not stopthis Tuesday Israeli forces attacked to militias and infrastructure of the Islamist group Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip. Therefore, after three weeks of hostilities due to persistent bombing, 800,000 Palestinians fled of the enclave, reported the Israeli Army.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahurejected calls for a ceasefire, after the rescue of the first hostage, and again promised destruction of Hamas for their attacks on the country of October 7for which civilians died and They kidnapped more than two hundred people.
Since the beginning of stroke, more than half of the 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza They left their homes due to violence, and hundreds of thousands are refugees in schools administered by the UN or in hospitals, along with thousands of wounded.
Jonathan Conricusa spokesperson for Israeli armysaid today that ground operations in Gaza, which began days ago, are focused on the north of the territory, including Gaza City, which he described as “Hamas’s center of gravity“.
“But we also continue to attack in other parts of Gaza. We are chasing their commanders. We attack their infrastructure, and whenever there is an important target related to Hamas, we attack him“, said.
Alarm at the UN and the Red Cross
Recent Israeli attacks hit near hospitals of the northern Gaza in recent days, which caused alarm among doctors, the UN already Red Cross.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugeesknown as Unrwa, say what 672,000 Palestinians are housed in their schools, which means four times more than its capacity.
The small coastal territory no central electricity for weeks now, and Israel prevents the entry of fuel necessary for generator sets in hospitals and homes, for fear that Hamas will use it for military purposes.
The boss of the Unrwa, Philippe Lazzariniaccused Israel last night in a remote intervention before the UN Security Council of force the displacement of Palestinians from the north to the south of Gaza and said that there They are not safe from bombing either..
He organism, on which hundreds of thousands of Gazans depend to eat, says that 64 members of his staff died since the beginning of the Israeli attacks, including one who died last night with his wife and eight children in a bombing.
In it northern Gazatoday there were Israeli attacks near a hospital in the Palestine Red Crescent, who expressed alarm.
“Attacks of artillery and aerial in the Tel al Hawa area of Gaza, where the Al Quds hospital is located,” the organization said in a statement. hospital director said that day that had receivedand ignored, an evacuation order from the Israeli Army.
Violence threatens to spread across the Middle East
Israel and militiamen of the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah they exchanged shots across the border almost daily. In turn, this country together with USA They bombed targets in Syria linked to Iran, which supports Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels.
Today, the Houthis claimed to have launched a drone attack against Israel as act of retaliation for their bombings in Gaza.
The Israeli military said it shot down a drone today over its airspace over the Red Sea city of Eliat, without giving further details. This month, a US ship intercepted three cruise missiles in the Red Sea and several drones thrown towards Israel by Yemen’s Houthis.
Source: Ambito
