The war between Israel and Palestine continues stronger than ever. Now, after numerous criticisms about the areas he was attacking, the israel army assured that managed to kill “more than 140 combatants” who were in the area where the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
The operation in this area had been launched on Monday with the intention of use tanks and aerial bombardment for the mission. In an official statement, the Israeli army justified its attack by explaining that it “is based on information about the use of the hospital by high-ranking Hamas terrorists“.
The mission was carried out despite the international criticism that Israel received in the last week. For example, him head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed his concern for Al Shifa hospital through his X account: “Hospitals should never be battlefields. We are terribly concerned about the situation at Al Shifa hospital in northern Gaza, which is endangering healthcare workers, patients and civilians“.
Along these lines, the Palestinian health authorities stated that the Israeli operation caused multiple victims and unleashed a fierce fire. For its part, the Israeli army stated that it killed “more than 140 combatants“in the Al Shifa hospital area, of which 50 had died during the last 24 hours of fighting and assured that they would continue”carrying out precise operational activities in the Al Shifa hospital area“.
The US will ask the UN for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
After the Israeli attack, USA announced that presented for the first time a conflict resolution project to the UN Security Council. He requests an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, he declared. Anthony Blinken, Secretary of state.
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“We have submitted a resolution to the Security Council calling for a Immediate ceasefire linked to the release of the hostages, and we hope that countries will support it“Blinken detailed to a local news outlet during a visit to Saudi Arabia. The text expresses “the need for an immediate and lasting ceasefire to protect civilians on all sides and enable the delivery of humanitarian aid“and the liberation of the Israeli hostages.
The announcement came during Blinken’s tour of Middle East, which will end next Friday in Israel. At the moment no date has been formalized for voting in the Security Council.
The war between Israel and Hamas exploded on October 7, 2023 with an incursion of Islamist militiamen who They killed 1,160 peoplemostly civilians, and They kidnapped about 250 in southern Israel, according to the count based on official Israeli data. Israel claims that 130 hostages remain captive in Gazaof which 33 would have died.
In retaliation for the attack, the Israeli army launched an air and ground offensive against Gaza, with the aim of “annihilate“to Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by the Jewish State, as well as by the United States and the European Union. So far, this military operation left 31,988 deadthe vast majority of them women, adolescents and children, according to the latest report published by the Gaza Ministry of Health, ruled by Hamas.
A Hamas leader in Beirut, Osama Hamdandeclared on Wednesday that Israel’s response to the Islamist movement’s latest proposal is “overall negative“and could lead the negotiations”to a standstill“According to the leader, Hamas last week proposed a six week truce and free 42 Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of between 20 and 50 Palestinians as hostages.
The Gaza-based group’s latest proposal also calls for withdrawal of the Israeli army from the territory and a greater entry of humanitarian aid, as detailed by Hamdan. For the moment, there were no further responses from the Israeli side.
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In this context, and in the middle of his tour of the Middle East, the head of American diplomacy said that he will address in his meetings “the efforts deployed to achieve an immediate ceasefire that guarantees the release of all hostages“, as well as the intensification of humanitarian aid. Blinken, as well as different UN agencies, reiterated on Tuesday that the entire population of Gaza suffers “severe levels of acute food insecurity“.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turkmaintained that Israel blocks aid and that “could be equivalent to using famine as a method of war“.”More than half of the population lives under what we call a ‘critical hunger level’‘” he concluded Philippe Lazzarinithe head of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).
Source: Ambito
