This Sunday they are fulfilled 100 days of the war between Israel and Hamasthe conflict that broke out on October 7 after the Islamist group will kill around 1,200 people and take 250 hostages. In less than four months, the confrontation left 24,000 dead in the Gaza Strip and according to the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu will not cease hostilities until “Hamas is annihilated”despite international requests, including those of its main ally, the United States.
Israel’s attacks on Gaza continue to this day and the humanitarian crisis continues to worsen. The concern at the international level is that the conflict will grow and reach a regional scale.
Israel also faces attacks from the Lebanese Islamist movement on its northern border Hezbollah, which is part of the “axis of resistance” of Iran and includes armed groups hostile to Israel and the United Statesand the claims of relatives of more than a hundred hostages who remain in the power of the Palestinian militia.
In the first months of the conflict, there was a seven-day period of truce where 108 hostages were freed by Hamas while Israel freed 240 Palestinians from prison.
Netanyahu faces growing pressure to rescue hostages still held by the terrorist group, with thousands protesting in Tel Aviv to demand their release.
Humanitarian crisis: the world calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip
On the diplomatic front, the foreign ministers of China and Egypt, meeting in Cairo, They called today for a ceasefire and the creation of an “independent and sovereign Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
The Israeli blockade of the Strip, reinforced by the war, is causing serious shortages of food and fuel. “The Mass death, destruction, displacement, hunger, loss and pain of a hundred days of war in Gaza stain our common humanity,” said the head of the Palestinian refugee agency UN (Unrwa), Philippe Lazzarini, on a visit to the territory.
The UN estimates that 1.9 million people, or almost 85% of the population, had to leave their homes. Many seek refuge in the south of the territory although the Gaza Ministry of Health has repeatedly warned that there is no infrastructure to accommodate them.
Netanyahu refuses to stop the offensive against Hamas and assured that he is “on the road to victory”
However, in the day before the 100 days of war, Netanyahu assured that “no one” will stop the military offensive in the Palestinian enclave.
“No one will stop us, not The Hague, not the Axis of Evil, not anyone else“he declared, referring to the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague, for “genocide” in Gaza.
“We are on the path to victory and we will not stop until we achieve it,” he said at a press conference at Army headquarters in Tel Aviv. “We will not compromise and we will not stop“, he assured, in statements reported by the Times of Israel newspaper.
100 days of war: Hamas says many Israeli hostages have “probably” died
On the part of Hamas, they assured today that “many” of the Israeli hostages in Gaza “probably” have died in recent days. After giving this message, they released a video in which three of the captives supposedly ask for help.
“The fate of many enemy hostages has been unknown since recent weeks and the others all entered the tunnel of the unknown,” said the spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, Abu Obeidain a televised message.
“Probably, many of them died recently and the others are in great danger and the authority of the enemy and its army bear full responsibility,” he added, according to the AFP news agency.
Of the nearly 250 hostages taken on October 7 in southern Israel by Islamist commandos, a hundred were exchanged for Palestinian prisoners during a week-long truce in mid-November. According to Israeli authorities, 132 were still held in Gaza and They believed 25 died.
Obeida warned that “the allied groups in the axis of the resistance” are going to “increase attacks” on Israeli troops in the coming days.
Source: Ambito
