Israel accused some agency employees of having participated in the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 that sparked the war in Gaza. “There is a deep connection between the terrorist organization (Hamas) and UNRWA, and Israel cannot tolerate it,” said Yuli Edelstein, one of the legislators who promoted the law.
But the head of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, called the ban part of an “ongoing campaign to discredit the agency”and that “will only aggravate the suffering of the Palestinians.”
For more than 70 years, UNRWA has provided essential education, health and relief aid in the Palestinian territories and to Palestinian refugees elsewhere. For its part, Hamas denounced “Zionist aggression” against Palestinians after the adoption of the law. Several European countries, including Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain, condemned the Israeli measure.
Israel says it is discussing a project to free hostages in Gaza
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu He stated on social networks that Israel ‘ready’ to provide aid to Gaza “in a manner that does not threaten Israeli security.”
Israel also announced on Monday that he had discussed with foreign negotiators in Qatar a new draft agreement on the release of held hostages andn Gazaat a time when war is being waged against Hamas in Palestinian territory and against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The head of the Mossad, Israeli intelligence services, met in Qatar with the head of the INC, Bill Burns, and the Qatari Prime Minister to discuss this “new draft agreement,” Netanyahu’s office announced.
The day before, the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al Sisi, whose country is one of the mediators in the conflict in Loop next to Qatar and USA, proposed a two-day ceasefire “during which four hostages would be exchanged for some prisoners“who are in the prisons of Israel.
This truce would precede negotiations “within ten days” for a “complete ceasefire and the entry of humanitarian aid” in the Palestinian territory, strictly controlled by Israel. But Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel had not received a proposal. “If this proposal had been made, the prime minister would have accepted it immediately“Omer Dostri said in a statement, Netanyahu’s spokesman.
Despite international pressure, Israel continues its offensive against Hamas and Hezbollah, two Islamist movements supported by Iran, after bombing on Saturday military objectives in Iranian territory. Iran seeks to build “stockpiles of nuclear bombs to destroy Israel” and “could threaten the entire world,” Netanyahu said Monday.
Saturday’s bombings “they changed the balance of forces” between the two countries, declared its Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, estimating that “the enemy was weakened.” Iran threatened Israel on Monday with “unimaginable” consequencesafter these attacks carried out in response to the firing of Iranian missiles on October 1 against Israeli territory.
War in the Middle East: Israel bombed Lebanon and left more than 60 dead
After weakening Hamas in Gaza, Israel shifted the bulk of its operations to Lebanon. On September 23, the Israeli army began an air campaign against the strongholds of Hezbollah, and a week later he completed it with a ground offensive. The objective, according to the Israeli authorities, is to allow the return to the north of the country of some 60,000 people displaced by the launch of rockets. Hezbollah since a year ago.
This Monday, a Israeli bombing killed seven people in the southern coastal city of Tyre. Lebanon, and in the east, several bombings killed another 60 peopleaccording to authorities. Since September 23, more than 1,670 people have died in Lebanonaccording to an AFP count based on official data.
For its part, the pro-Iran militia claimed responsibility for several rocket and artillery attacks on the Israeli border, as well as rocket fire at the Stella Maris naval base, near Haifa, in northern Israel. On the Strip Gaza, the Israeli army announced that it killed “dozens of terrorists” in Jabaliyain the north of the enclave, where it launched an offensive on October 6 to, it says, prevent Hamas fighters from regrouping.
The war in the Gaza Strip was triggered by attack by Hamas militiamen against Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,206 peoplemostly civilians, and captured 251, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data that includes hostages killed in captivity. Of those kidnapped that day, 97 remain captive in Gaza, but 34 of them were declared dead by the army. In response, Israel launched an offensive in Gaza that has already left 43,020 deadmostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health of the Hamas government, considered reliable by the UN.
Source: Ambito
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