According to the authorities of the Islamist group, in power in Gaza since 2007, at least 85 Palestinians died in the last 24 hoursin more than 60 night bombings in the center and south of the enclave, especially in Jan Yunis.
At least 13 people were killed by a shell that fell on tents of displaced people in Al Mawasi, between Khan Younis and Rafah, said the Gaza Ministry of Health.
A first ship loaded with aid is ready to set sail from Cyprus, within the framework of a humanitarian maritime corridor announced by the European Union heading to the Palestinian enclave, devastated after more than five months of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement.
Nothing seems to indicate that a truce agreement will be reached before Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month that begins this Monday. The conflict has so far left 31,045 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to Hamas.
For Ahmed Kamis, a 40-year-old displaced person,Ramadan this year is synonymous with “suffering”. “There is a dirty, bloody war, a war of genocide. The displaced have nothing to eat or drink,” he deplored to AFP from Rafah, in the extreme south of the enclave.
The war broke out on October 7, with the unprecedented attack by Hamas commandos on Israeli soil, in which some 1,160 people were killedespecially civilians, according to an AFP count based on Israeli data. Some 250 people were kidnapped and 130 remain captive in Gazaof which 31 would have died, according to the Israeli authorities.
In response, Israel vowed to “annihilate” Hamas and launched a military campaign against the Palestinian enclave it has already left. more than 30 thousand deaths, most of them women and children.
Israel announced the death of a soldier, raising the number of military deaths to 249 since the start of the ground offensive on October 27.
Gaza: UN warns that 2.4 million Palestinians are on the verge of famine
The total siege imposed by Israel has caused a humanitarian catastrophe in this territory and, according to UN, 2.2 million of the 2.4 million inhabitants are on the brink of famine. “I feed my daughter with water, water, so she doesn’t die. I have no choice,” said a mother in Gaza City, Barak Abhar, with her crying baby in her arms.
Israel only allows humanitarian aid to enter the territory in dribs and drabs from the closed border with Egypt. Jordan, the United States, France, Belgium and Egypt participated in new aid airdrops on Sunday.
The EU and the United States, Israel’s main ally, announced on Friday that they were preparing a maritime corridor from Cyprus, located about 370 km from Gaza.
A first ship chartered by the Spanish NGO Open Arms in collaboration with the American World Central Kitchen (WCK) will set sail from the port of Larnaca “in the next few hours,” the Cypriot government announced.
Some residents went to a beach south of Gaza City hoping to see the ship arrive. “I have been waiting since this morning because the situation is tragic,” Mohammed Harrara told AFP.
“They said that a ship full of aid was coming and that people would be able to eat,” added another Palestinian, Mohammed Abu Baid. “Only God knows. We won’t believe it until we see it,” he added.
The UN, who has warned that a famine widespread is “almost inevitable” in the territory, insists that aid deliveries by air or sea cannot replace land deliveries.
This aid passes through Rafah, on the border with Egypt, where nearly 1.5 million people are crowded, according to the UN, the vast majority of them displaced people living in miserable conditions, in search of food and water and distressed by a possible offensive. land announced by Israel.
Joe Biden’s criticism of Netanyahu: “It hurts Israel more than it helps”
The American president, Joe Biden, He again criticized the Israeli Prime Minister on Saturday, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu “harms more than helps Israel” the president said during an interview with MSNBC on Saturday.
“It has the right to defend Israel, the right to continue pursuing Hamas,” he said, but “it must pay more attention to the innocent lives that are being lost.”
He Israeli leader who faces pressure in his country to reach an agreement to release the hostages, He rejected Biden’s statements on Sunday.
Both sides in the conflict accuse each other of preventing an agreement. The head of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, assured on Sunday that the Islamist group remained “open to continuing negotiations” for a truce.
Hamas wants Ramadan “to go from being a month of prayer to being a month of bloodshed,” declared Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli war cabinet.
Source: Ambito
