Israel’s Gaza offensive: Hamas threatens to host the hostage

While the Israeli army is moving to the center of the city of Gaza in northern Gaza Strip, its troops in the south of the coastal area are further involved in isolated fights. Four Israeli soldiers were killed there in Rafah on Thursday in the explosion of an explosive device, as the military announced. According to medical circles, dozens of people died again on the Palestinian side, 38 in the city of Gaza alone. Meanwhile, the United States and its veto in the UN Security Council once again prevented a resolution to improve the humanitarian situation.

The resolution text failed due to the principle of unanimity should express deep concern about a famine in the sealed coastal strip. In addition, the Israeli government was asked to “immediately and uncondently and unconditionally” all restrictions on the import of humanitarian aid to Gaza “.

However, the United States, as Israel’s most important ally, was the only country in the most powerful UN committee against the draft resolution-there were also 14 votes in favor. US representative Morgan Ortagus justified the Veto Washington with the fact that the resolution would have supported the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.

The Hamas addressed impending words to the Israeli army and knew that she “prepared thousands of ambushes and explosive devices in the city of Gaza”. “Gaza will be a cemetery for your soldiers.” In addition, the hostages kidnapped from Israel were spread over several quarters of the city. The information could not be checked independently.

The military offensive ordered despite all the warnings of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will result in none of the hostages return to Israel. There will be no consideration of the life of the kidnapped, “as long as Netanyahu decides to kill them,” said Hamas’ military arm, the Kassam brigades.

Israel had started a highly controversial soil offensive in the city on Tuesday night. According to the government, the aim is to smash one of the last strongholds of Hamas and achieve the release of the hostages.

There are still 48 hostages in the Gaza strip. According to Israeli information, 20 of them are likely to live, the others are about the handover of their mortal remains. The relatives of the hostages of Israel accuse the offensive of risking the lives of those who are still under the violence of Islamists.

Since the beginning of the soil offensive in the city, more than 1,200 destinations have been attacked, the Israeli army spokesman Effie Defrin said. In the meantime, an estimated more than 450,000 Palestinian residents would have left the city. Despite the struggles and the “Hamas attempts to prevent the evacuation of the civilian population”, the army enables the population to escape from the city, the army spokesman said. People should go to a so -called humanitarian zone in the south.

The information from the army spokesmen could not initially be checked independently. Around a million people were in the city of Gaza before the offensive. In the meantime, the Israeli troops are moving on to the city center, as Defrin explained. Two divisions are in use, another will probably be added in the coming days. A division usually consists of 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers.

The army explained. Another division is still in use in the south of the sealed coastal strip. “Our units continue to attack terrorist infrastructure and Hamas fighter,” said Defrin.

Four Israeli soldiers were killed in the Rafah area by a bomb placed on the side of the road and three more injured, the army announced. Although Hamas in Rafah largely defeated as a result of severe Israeli bombing and battles and its infrastructure is destroyed, the Israeli army assumes that there are still several dozen fighters of Hamas, wrote the “Times of Israel”.

Two other Israeli soldiers were killed on Thursday at an attack on a border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank controlled by Israel. According to the army, the alleged perpetrator had arrived with a truck with which humanitarian aid goods were to be transported in the Gaza Strip. The Jordanian stabbed his victims, reported, among other things, the “Times of Israel”, citing investigators. Security forces would have “switched off” the perpetrator – which usually means that the man was killed.

Jordan initiated investigations into the incident. According to the political leadership, Israel’s army chief Ejal Zamir advised army information, initially no longer allowed aid deliveries for the Gaza Strip via the land path from Jordan.

The war in the sealed coastal area had started on October 7, 2023 with the raid of Hamas and other Islamist terrorists on Israel on October 7, 2023. Around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 were dragged into the Gaza strip. In the course of the Gaza War triggered by this, around 65,000 Palestinians were killed in the coastal area, including numerous women and children.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron warns of Israel’s loss of reputation because of the country’s military approach and the many civilian victims in the Gaza Strip. “They completely destroy the reputation and credibility of Israel, not only in the region, but in public opinion everywhere,” Macron told the Israeli broadcaster Channel 12. The Hamas must be destroyed, but military warfare is not sufficient.

Macron has long put pressure on Israel to end the war. Another advance is the official recognition of a state of Palestine by France at the UN General Assembly next week.