Location at a glance: Israel to increase the pressure on Hamas ready

After stopping the aid deliveries in the Gaza Strip, Israel is ready to further increase the pressure to Islamist Hamas. In order to achieve an extension of the first phase of the agreement via the ceasefire and the release of all hostages, a new resettlement of the residents from the north into the south of the sealed Gaza Strip could follow, the Israeli broadcaster Kan reported. If that would bring nothing, the power supply would be cut throughout the coastal strip.

The last measure was the return to the war, this time with heavy bombs that had been held back by the previous US government. According to the broadcaster, Israeli leadership has developed a corresponding plan for “maximum pressure” on Hamas in recent weeks. According to Israeli information, this still has 24 Israeli hostages and 35 corpses of abducted violence.

The Israeli newspaper “Jerusalem Post” meanwhile quoted the Israeli civil servants that are not named by name, according to which the terrorist organization is given a few more days in order to reach an agreement on the release of further hostages. “When we see that the negotiations are not led in good faith, we will return to the fights in Gaza,” it said.

UN Secretary General António Guterres appealed to Israel and Hamas to make every effort to avoid new open hostilities. The deliveries of humanitarian aid for the approximately two million Palestinians in the sealed coastal area would have to be resumed immediately, and the release of the hostages deported from Israel continued. “We have to get help and get the hostages out. The ceasefire has to hold,” said UN-NOTILFECOROPOINATER TOM Fletcher.

Sharp criticism of blockade of auxiliary deliveries

The aid organization doctors without limits also condemned Israel. Again Israel cuts the population of relief goods and use access to humanitarian aid as a means of pressure, explained the emergency aid coordinator Caroline Seguin. “This is unacceptable and will have devastating consequences.” The news had triggered fear and already caused the food prices in the Gaza Strip. The Arab TV broadcaster Al-Jasira quoted a Palestinian in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip with the words: “There will be a famine and chaos”.

Egypt, Qatar and Jordan also condemned the stop of the aid deliveries. “It cannot be allowed or accepted that (humanitarian) help is used as a weapon for collective punishment and starvation,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdellaty in Cairo. “This is considered a blatant and clear violation of humanitarian international law,” it said.

Qatar and Jordan commented similarly. This step increases the risk of an “explosion of the situation” in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, the Israeli news page “Ynet” quoted the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Egypt and Qatar mediate with the United States between Israel and Hamas.

Netanyahu: Hamas steals aid deliveries

Hamas has so far rejected an extension of the first phase of the ceasefire required by Israel. The Israeli hostages could only be released by the immediate admission of negotiations on the second phase of the agreement, it said. This second phase of the three -stage agreement provides for the release of the remaining hostages in return for a permanent end of the war. However, Israel insists on the war goal of completely destruction of Hamas. According to Israeli media, the country’s army is already training intensively for a possible start of the war in the Gaza Strip.

The Hamas “presented positions for a permanent ceasefire that are completely unacceptable,” wrote Israel’s head of government Benjamin Netanyahu on the X. Israel platform, “because Hamas steals the deliveries and prevents people in Gaza from getting it”. In doing so, she “finances her terrorist”, Netanyahu wrote and thanked US President Donald Trump for his support. Further steps will be taken if Hamas continue to hold the hostages.