75 days after the start of the Gaza war, fighting continues. The sirens are wailing again in Israel. The World Health Organization laments the catastrophic medical situation in the Gaza Strip. The overview.
Israel’s army has expanded its military operation in the Gaza Strip to other areas. According to the army, while ground troops continued to advance into the central area of the coastal strip on Thursday, rockets again flew into Israeli areas. Dull explosions could be heard in the metropolis of Tel Aviv. The news site ynet reported that around 30 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip.
The armed wing of the Islamist Hamas organization, the Qassam Brigades, spoke in a statement of a “response to the Zionist massacres of civilians” in the Gaza Strip. According to Hamas, at least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war began.
The Gaza war was triggered by the worst massacre in Israel’s history, carried out by terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups on October 7th in Israel near the border with Gaza. On the Israeli side, more than 1,200 people were killed.
Israel’s army claims control over Hamas stronghold Shejaiya
The Israeli armed forces say they have established “operational control” over the Gaza district of Shejaiya, which is considered a Hamas stronghold. “Troops will continue to conduct limited operations in the area to destroy remaining Hamas infrastructure and kill militants in hiding,” the military said in a statement on Thursday.
Shejaiya in the north of the coastal strip was until recently the scene of fierce fighting between Israeli soldiers and terrorists from the Islamist Hamas. Late last week, the military accidentally shot three Israeli hostages there who had escaped from their captors.
During the fighting in the neighborhood, the Israeli military killed numerous Hamas fighters and destroyed dozens of entrances to Hamas tunnels, the statement said. Nine Israeli soldiers, including two senior officers, were killed in an ambush by Islamists.
Rocket fire still coming from the Gaza Strip
Despite massive bombings, for which Israel’s army has come under international criticism due to the high number of civilian casualties, Hamas is still firing rockets. According to Israeli media, this is also due to the large number of launch sites in the Gaza Strip. According to estimates by the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Hamas’ rocket arsenal included around 20,000 projectiles. According to Israeli figures on Wednesday, around 12,500 rockets have been fired at the Jewish state since the start of the war.
WHO: Patients in northern Gaza Strip “starving and dying of thirst”
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are no longer any functioning hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip. Patients are not dying just because of a lack of medical care, WHO relief coordinator Sean Casey said on Thursday. “They are starving and dying of thirst,” he reported in a video link from Rafah.
According to WHO representative Richard Peeperkorn, only 9 of the 36 health facilities in the entire Gaza Strip are still partially operational. Hospitals in the northern part of the Palestinian coastal strip are no longer able to carry out operations and care for their patients, but they still accommodate thousands of people – including many refugees.
Britain is pushing for aid deliveries to Gaza by ship
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron pushed for more aid deliveries to Gaza by ship. Work is being done to ensure that British ships can bring aid supplies from Cyprus to Gaza, said Cameron after a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Samih Schukri. “Humanitarian aid is the absolute priority.” Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said during a visit to Cyprus that the details were currently being clarified.
Israel’s army: search dog camera recorded voices of hostages
When an Israeli army search dog was used in the Gaza Strip, cries for help from three hostages were recorded, who were accidentally shot by soldiers five days later. The dog was sent into a building with a body camera during a battle, said Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari, according to a published transcript.
“The terrorists shot the dog, and from that point on we heard the voices of the hostages,” Hagari said. The camera on the body of the dog that was killed in the operation was only found and evaluated on Tuesday.
Israeli soldiers accidentally shot the three Israeli hostages in Shejaiya in the north of the sealed-off coastal strip. They had no shirts on, one was holding a stick with a white piece of cloth in his hand. The army said the soldiers acted against the rules of engagement when they opened fire.
New water pipeline supplies Gaza Strip from Egypt
A new pipeline is supposed to supply the Gaza Strip with water from Egypt. As the official news agency of the United Arab Emirates (WAM) announced, around 2,270 cubic meters of seawater from the Mediterranean will be processed every day by three desalination plants. This could provide up to 300,000 people in the Gaza Strip with water.
The desalination plants are connected to the Gaza Strip via a 900-meter-long pipeline, WAM reported. The systems were financed by the United Arab Emirates. The children’s aid organization Unicef reported a catastrophic water supply for hundreds of thousands in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli police are investigating the death of a Palestinian prisoner
After the death of a Palestinian prisoner in Israel, police are investigating alleged violence by guards. According to police reports, a total of 19 prison guards were interrogated in the affair and then released on conditions. The newspaper “Israel Hajom” reported that the 38-year-old prisoner from the West Bank was suspected of being beaten with sticks in his cell a month ago and seriously injured. He was later found dead in his cell. An autopsy had no clear results.
According to information, the prisoner was a member of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah organization. Among other things, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempted murder.
Source: Stern
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