UN aid organizations complain about an increasing number of civilian victims. Hamas is firing from the Gaza Strip towards Israel – and has apparently tried to invade the country again. The News.
More and more civilians are becoming victims of the war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas attackers in the Gaza Strip – including, according to the UN, many children. According to the UN Children’s Fund, 2,360 children alone have died in Israel’s counterattacks since Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel a good two weeks ago. Unicef said 5,364 others were injured, citing unnamed reports.
Hamas fires rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Eilat and Haifa
Hamas members said they fired two long-range rockets from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday toward Haifa in the north and Eilat in the south of Israel. Rocket alarms were triggered in places south of the coastal city of Haifa, the Israeli army said.
The bullet exploded in the air there, Israeli media reported, citing the military. The other fell on open ground in the south of the country. Accordingly, the projectiles were long-range missiles. There were initially no reports of injuries or damage.
Military: Hamas terrorists wanted to return to Israel
According to the Israeli military, Hamas had previously attempted to invade Israel again from the Gaza Strip. An attempt by Hamas terrorists to reach southern Israel from the sea was thwarted, it was said on Wednesday night. They were about to leave a tunnel on the coast of the sealed-off enclave. Israel’s air force then bombed the tunnel and a terrorist weapons depot, the military said.
Israel also responds to shelling from Syria
Meanwhile, the Israeli army is also attacking military positions in neighboring Syria. The Israeli military announced that warplanes carried out attacks against military infrastructure and mortars of the Syrian army after firing towards Israel the day before. Israel’s air force repeatedly bombs targets in neighboring Syria.
Israel wants to prevent its arch-enemy Iran and its allied militias from expanding their military influence in Syria. Iran is one of Syria’s most important allies. Israeli air force attacks have escalated since the start of the war against the Iran-backed Islamist Hamas.
An airport was once again the target of bombings. The suspected Israeli rocket attack damaged a runway at Aleppo airport for the fourth time since the Gaza war broke out, the Syrian state agency Sana and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
UN continues to demand fuel for Gaza
The United Nations complains that the situation of the one million internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip remains dramatic despite some aid deliveries that have now arrived in Gaza. A lack of fuel endangers humanitarian operations beyond today. Unicef spoke of “relentless attacks” by the Israelis.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) once again warned of the end of its humanitarian aid due to the acute fuel shortage. “We have to find a solution for the fuel – otherwise our aid operation will come to a standstill,” the organization wrote on the X platform.
Fourth convoy with relief supplies arrived in the Gaza Strip
Meanwhile, aid supplies continue to arrive in small steps to the needy population in the Gaza Strip. Goods from a convoy of originally 20 trucks arrived in the cordoned-off coastal strip, a spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent said. “We received eight trucks today and 54 in the past three days.” According to information from Egyptian security circles, the twelve remaining trucks are still being checked at the Aujah border crossing further south.
The trucks loaded medicine, baby milk and drinking water, said Chalid Sajid, head of the Egyptian Red Crescent, to the German Press Agency.
Israel arrests 110 suspects for incitement and incitement to terror
Israeli police have arrested 110 suspects for calls for violence and terror since the start of the Gaza war. Charges have been brought against 17 people, the police said on the platform X, formerly Twitter. Since the beginning of the war, the responsible team has been increasingly looking after suspects who called for violence, identified with and supported the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas. In addition to the arrests in Israel, the army has arrested hundreds of suspects in the West Bank in counterterrorism operations over the past two and a half weeks.
Source: Stern
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