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Pressure on Israel due to humanitarian emergency in Gaza is increasing
In Gaza there is bare need. Foreign Minister of most EU countries and other countries appeal to Israel. Even Israeli fighter pilots are followed by demands for the end of the war.
The international pressure on Israel due to the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the contested Gaza strip is increasing. “All border crossings and routes must be used to enable a flood from relief goods to Gaza,” demand 26 western states and the EU Commission in a joint statement. Germany did not agree with the appeal.
“A famine spreads before our eyes,” says the explanation – in order to protect the civilian population, urgent measures are necessary. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the other hand, said: “There is no policy of starving in the Gaza Strip, and there is no hunger in the Gaza Strip.”
The declaration was signed by three EU commissioners-including the EU foreign representative Kaja Kallas-as well as the foreign ministers and external ministers of most EU countries, Australia, Canadas, Iceland, Japans, Norway, Switzerland and Great Britain. Food, accommodation, fuel, clean water and medication are used, among other things, the appeal says. In addition, civilians and helpers would have to be protected at the distribution points.
USA hold on the controversial foundation
Again and again there are reports of fatal incidents near the distribution points operated by the controversial Gaza Humanitrian Foundation (GHF). The foundation is supported by Israel and the United States and had started its commitment in the sealed coastal area in May after an almost three -month Israeli blockade of auxiliary deliveries.
The US State Department had approved $ 30 million for the GHF. So far, “more than half” have been paid out, as a spokeswoman for the ministry said. US President Donald Trump wants to help improve the situation-based on the use of the GHF.
However, international organizations do not see the GHF as suitable to improve the location of the needy in the largely devastated coastal area. This can only be accomplished through the well -rehearsed mechanisms of the UN and other organizations with corresponding experience.
Israel: Armmed used emblem of aid organization
The Israeli government must give the UN and non-governmental organizations permanent access to the area, demanded the 26 western states and the EU Commission. Israel had introduced the new GHF distribution mechanism to avoid UN aid organizations and other initiatives. According to the Netanyahus government, this is to prevent Hamas from branching off humanitarian aid goods.
According to Israeli military information, armed Palestinians used in the Gaza Strip a vehicle with a fake emblem of the aid organization World Central Kitchen (WCK). After clarification with WCK that the vehicle was not one of them, five armed armed people were killed out of the air at the weekend because they had presented a threat. WCK confirmed on request that the Israeli side had been contacted and confirmed that the vehicle and the people were not one of it.
Al-Jasira corrected number of killed employees
Meanwhile, the Arab TV broadcaster Al-Jasira corrected the number of employees killed in an Israeli air raid in northern Gaza Strip. In addition to the correspondent Anas al-Sharif, three of his colleagues died in a targeted attack on a tent for journalists in the city of Gaza, the broadcaster said. Al-Jasira had previously spoken of five killed employees. According to the organization reporter without a border, a total of six journalists died.
The Israeli military had confirmed Anas al-Sharif’s death. The 28-year-old had pretended to be Al-Jasira journalist, but he led a terrorist cell of the Islamist Hamas, the army said. She referred to alleged information from the secret services and documents found in the Gaza Strip, which should prove his military belonging to Hamas. Israel’s military did not comment on the other five victims of the attack. The attack on the journalists was criticized internationally.
Israeli fighter pilots are calling for the end of the war
In Israel, around 200 former and active Israeli combat pilots demonstrated in front of the military headquarters in Tel Aviv for an end to the fights and an agreement on the release of the hostages. However, the government is pursuing a new war plan, which according to Prime Minister Netanyahu, in addition to taking the city of Gaza, also provides for the destruction of Hamas in the central refugee camps.
In addition to the USA, according to media reports, Qatar and Egypt are currently trying to resume indirect conversations between Israel and Hamas about an ceasefire and freedom of hostage. According to information from Egyptian security circles, a Hamas delegation came to the Egyptian capital Cairo on Tuesday. The talks should continue today, the “Times of Israel” quoted an Arabic diplomat.
Netanyahu rejects partial agreements
Netanyahu told the broadcaster “i24news” that he was no longer ready for a “partial agreement” with Hamas. Instead, a deal is striving in the frame of which all 50 hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip – the living and the dead – are published by Hamas at the same time. In return, the Islamists demand a complete end of the almost two -year war and a deduction of the Israeli troops from Gaza.
Un: References to sexual violence against Palestinians
UN General Secretary António Guterres, meanwhile, is extremely concerned about credible information that Israeli security forces are said to have caused Palestinian prisoners sexual violence. The allegations that he expressed in a letter to Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon refer to alleged incidents in several prisons, a detention center and a military base. Danon rejected the accusations.
Guterres’ letter precedes the publication of the annual UN report on sexual violence. He writes that it was difficult to collect clues because the UN observers had been refused access to the buildings in question. “I urgently ask the Israeli government to take the necessary measures to ensure the immediate cessation of all acts of sexual violence,” said Guterres.
Danon, who published the letter, criticized Guterres on the platform X: The UN Secretary General has once again relied on unfounded accusations based on tendentual publications “. The United Nations should concentrate on “Hamas’s shocking war crimes” and the “immediate release of all hostages”.
dpa
Source: Stern
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