Israel on Thursday intensified its bombings in Gaza, despite signs of impatience from the United States, its main ally, which sent a senior White House official to Jerusalem. According to the ministry, the latest attack killed at least 19 people in the Strip.
Additionally, in the West Bank, which has also seen an uptick in violence since October 7, the Palestinian Authority reported that two people died in the israeli attacks against the city of Jenin.
For that reason, US President Joe Biden, whose government has delivered thousands of millions of dollars in military aid to Israelwarned on Wednesday that the “indiscriminate bombingor” against Gaza weakens international support for the country.
Israel intensifies its attacks against Hamas in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who heads the coalition government made up of ultra-Orthodox and far-right parties, responded by stating that his country will continue “until the end”. “Nothing will stop us. We will go to the enduntil victory,” he promised.
For his part, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said that the war against Hamas will continue. “with or without international support“. Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, is scheduled to meet this Thursday with Netanyahu and his war cabinet in Jerusalem.
Sullivan stated at a Wall Street Journal event before the trip that he would discuss a timetable for ending the war and will urge Israeli authorities to “move towards a different phase of the high intensity operations we see today“.
Hamas’s position
The truth is that Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that there are “disagreements” with the United States on how Gaza will be administered after the conflict.
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh declared on Wednesday that “any discussion on Gaza or the Palestinian cause without the presence of Hamas or the resistance factions it will be a deception“.
In addition, he maintained that Hamas is ready for talks that lead to a “political path that ensures the right of the Palestinian people to an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.”
Likewise, a poll published Wednesday by the Palestinian Center for Survey and Policy Research indicated that Haniyeh has the support of the 78% of the inhabitants of the Palestinian territoriescompared to 58% before the war.
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Concern at the UN
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, indicated Wednesday that Gazans “face the darkest chapter in their history“
The UN estimates that 1.9 million peopleOf Gaza’s 2.4 million inhabitants, they have been displaced and living in tents and supplies of food, clean water, medicine and fuel are running out.
Furthermore, the organization has warned of the spread of diseases and that Gaza’s hospital system is in ruins. Hamas authorities say they have run out of vaccines for children, warning that the consequences are “catastrophic.”
The Israeli army, meanwhile, faces growing pressure to reduce deaths in its ranks and release hostages held by Hamas. Has lost 115 soldiers, 10 of them on Tuesday. In the October 7 attacks, Hamas captured about 240 hostages, dozens were freed during a week-long truce in November, and others have been killed.
Source: Ambito
