The Armed Forces of Israel They completed the siege of the city of Loop and they left the fractured Stripe in two areas, one in the north and another in the south, while the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, He continued his tour of the region with visits to Palestine, Iraq and Cyprus.
Israeli troops “They surrounded Gaza City and now there is a southern Gaza and a northern Gaza”said the spokesperson for the Armed Forces, Daniel Hagari, and assured that the transit of civilians from the north to the south of the enclave would continue to be allowed.
Meanwhile, Blinken visited the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to discuss Israel’s offensive against the Islamist movement Hamas and said Palestinians should not be displaced from Gaza, after another Israeli bombing killed dozens of people in the besieged territory.
To see Abbas, the head of American diplomacy traveled without prior notice to the West Bank, the others palestinian territories, after visiting Israel and Jordan, where he asked for pauses in the bombings that the Israeli Army launches in Loop since the Hamas attacks last month, in order to get aid to Palestinian civilians in the enclave.
After talking with Abbas, Blinken made two other brief visits, which were also unannounced, to the president of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, and to the prime minister of Iraq, Mohamed Shia al Sudani, before continuing his trip to Turkey, where tomorrow he will talk with the chancellor Hakan Fidan.
He spoke with Christodoulides, without getting off his plane, about the creation of a “maritime corridor” to provide humanitarian assistance to Gazaan initiative of Cyprus, reported the government of this country.
Meanwhile, with Al Sudani, whom he visited in his offices in the International Zone of Baghdad, he discussed the situation, which includes dozens of attacks on US military bases in Iraq and Syria since the Hamas attack on Israel on the 7th. last October.
More than 9,800 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis dead
In four weeks, the bombings Israelis killed almost 9,800 Palestiniansmostly civilians, reported today the Ministry of Health of Loop. The figure is unprecedented in the history of the conflict. More of 1,400 Israelis killed in Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7, a number also unprecedented.
The Ministry of Health of the Hamas Government in Gaza added in a statement that among the at least 9,770 dead there were 4,800 children and 2,550 women, and that some 2,600 people they were still missingpossibly buried under the rubble of buildings collapsed by bombings.
More than 24,000 people were injured, the ministry added in a statement.
The note stated that in the last 24 hours, 243 people were killed in Gaza in at least 24 Israeli attacks, the deadliest of which hit a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday night and into Sunday.
Hamas said the bombing “directly” hit homes multi-story camp Maghazi, and killed 45 people, most of them children and women.
A photographer journalist from the Turkish state news agency Anadolu, Muhammad Alaloul, whose house was partially destroyed, said his four children and four brothers were dead. in the bombing, according to the AFP news agency.
In Israel, the Army said it continued ground operations begun in Gaza a week ago and published photos of what he said were rocket launchers found in civilian areas, which Hamas uses to launch projectiles towards Israel, as part of its actions to destroy the Islamist movement’s military infrastructure.
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Abbas called to stop Israel’s “genocide”
Upon receiving Blinken in Ramallah, Abbas, called for a stop to the “genocide” of Israel in Gaza and said that peace will only be achieved with the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, his Government reported, the Palestinian National Authority (ANP), in a statement.
The Palestinian president said that ANP was ready to take control of Gaza as part of a comprehensive political solution that includes the creation of a Palestinian State in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, once the current escalation ends and Israel withdraws its colonies from the West Bank territories and the eastern portion of Jerusalem.
The remarks came amid speculation about who will control Gaza in the future and fears of a power vacuum after Israel vowed to eradicate Hamas, which rules the Palestinian coastal enclave.
The PA has no real authority in Gaza since 2007, when Hamas ousted it from there after deadly clashes with Abbas’ secular Fatah party.
Blinken told Abbas that Palestinians should not be “forcibly removed” from Gaza, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.
He added that the two also discussed the need to stop “extremist violence” against Palestinians in the West Bank, an apparent reference to an increase in attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians amid the Gaza offensive.
Source: Ambito
