He Israeli army continues its offensive on Gaza Stripwhere the dead amount to about 25,000 and the risk of a regional escalation is accentuated, after the death of five Iranians in Syria in a attack attributed to Israel.
“Four military advisors”among them an Intelligence chief of the Revolutionary Guards in Syria, died in a Israeli attack on Damascusreported the Iranian news agency Mehr, citing sources from that military force.
In the Gaza Strip, meanwhile, artillery fire and shelling were heard in the south of the enclave, especially in the Khan Yunis area, the epicenter of military operations in recent days and where Israel believes the Hamas leaders are hiding. , reported the AFP news agency.
Israeli troops destroyed “terrorist infrastructure” along the entire coastal strip and hit rocket launchers in Khan Yunis, according to the military.
Today, the Gaza Ministry of Health announced that Israeli “strikes” had caused at least 165 deaths in the last 24 hours.
According to this source, Israeli operations in Gaza left 24,927 dead, mostly women and minors, and more than 62,000 people injured, in addition to an unknown number of missing under the rubble.
The conflict began on October 7 with an unprecedented attack against Israeli territory by the Palestinian Islamist group and other militias in the enclave.
The militants killed around 1,200 people and kidnapped around 240, including twenty Argentine nationals. Around a hundred were freed in November during a brief truce, in an exchange for Palestinian prisoners, most of them minors.
In addition to its military operation, Israel has maintained a “complete siege” of Gaza since October 9 and exercises a practically total blockade of the entry of water, food, medicine and fuel.
The World Health Organization (WHO) increased the “inhumane living conditions” for the 2.4 million inhabitants of this devastated territory. Almost 20,000 babies were born in “hell” in Gaza since the start of the Israeli offensive, according to Unicef.
The conflict in Gaza also aggravates tensions between Israel and armed groups in the region backed by Iran, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah or the Yemeni Houthis.
Today, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced the deaths of “four military advisors” in an airstrike that destroyed a residential building in Damascus.
According to Mehr, the Chief of Intelligence for Syria of the Revolutionary Guards, his deputy “and two other members of this force” were killed.
In Yemen, the United States again bombed Houthi rebel positions yesterday after they claimed responsibility for an attack on an American oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
And on the border between Israel and Lebanon, another hot spot, the Israeli Army bombed Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon after the Islamist movement attacked Israel.
The United States, Israel’s main ally and key support in this war against Hamas, called in recent weeks to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza and defended the creation of a Palestinian state as a guarantee of regional security.
However, Netanyahu stated that Israel must “have control of the security of all the territory west of the Jordan River,” which “contradicts the idea” of a Palestinian state.
The Prime Minister spoke by phone last night with US President Joe Biden about the viability of this “two-state” solution.
After the conversation, the first in almost a month, Biden “still believes in the prospect and possibility” of a Palestinian state, but “recognizes that it will take a lot of work to get there,” the White House said.
“The illusion that Biden preaches in favor of a State of Palestine (…) does not deceive our people,” Izzat al Richiq, a member of the Hamas political bureau, reacted today in a statement.
For his part, the head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, maintained yesterday that the “two-state solution must be imposed from the outside to bring peace” and accused Netanyahu of being “boycotting” this path.
“To prevent it, they themselves have created Hamas. Hamas has been financed by the Government of Israel to try to weaken the Palestinian Authority of Al Fatah”, the main political party of the Palestinian Government in the occupied territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, he denounced.
Source: Ambito
