This Tuesday, the UN General Assembly approved a non-binding text, which calls for a “humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza”, but which avoided condemning Hamas for its attack.
However, bombings and armed clashes “continued mainly in the cities of Gaza, Khan Younis and Rafah, in the south,” as journalists from the France Press Agency (AFP).
Israel bomb Gaza Strip in response to the attack launched by Hamas on its territory on October 7which left 1,200 dead, according to Israeli authorities.
On October 27, his troops also began a ground operation to meet the objective of “annihilate” to the Islamist movement, which governs in Gaza since 2007. The Palestinian Ministry of Health states that, since the beginning of the conflict, around 18,608 people diedmostly women and children under 18 years of age.
Israel-Hamas conflict: how the situation continues
Hamas fighters they kept launching rockets toward Sderot and other communities of the southern Israelmost of which managed to be intercepted.
The Israeli army indicated that sirens sounded in the city of Ashdod and in the area of Lakhish. Through some images spread on social networks, they were able to show that a large fragment of an intercepted rocket hit a supermarket.
The same source stated that the rocket would have hit a militia cell in Gaza City “that was ready to attack.” launch rockets towards Israel”.
The world calls for peace in Gaza: latest news in the United States and the UN
After the United States veto on Friday a resolution of the Security Councilto call for a ceasefire in the Gaza StripThe general assembly approved a similar text on Tuesday.
Of the 193 member countries of the UN, 153 voted in favor23 abstained and the other ten they voted againstamong them Israel and the United States.
In an unusual joint statement, the prime ministers of Australia, Canada and New Zealand said Wednesday that they are “alarmed by the reduction of security space for civilians in Gaza.
US President Joe Biden stated on Tuesday that Israel begins to lose international support “for the indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza. But then she softened his words, reiterating your support to Israel and stating that “the security of innocent Palestinians “It’s still a big concern.”.
“We have had concerns and we have expressed them about the continuity of this military campaign,” the spokesman for the National Security Council, John Kirby.
Israel will continue the conflict, the word of an Israeli diplomat
Despite criticism from its main ally, Israel promised to continue the offensive: “Israel will continue the war against Hamas, with or without international support”declared in a statement the head of Israeli diplomacy, Eli Cohen.
“A ceasefire at this time it would be a gift to the terrorist organization Hamas, allowing it threaten again to the inhabitants of Israel,” he added.
“We will continue until the end. There is no doubt. I say this with great pain, but also in light of international pressure. Nothing will stop us. We will go until the end, until victory.”The Israeli Prime Minister said this Wednesday afternoon, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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