Location at a glance: UN pull part of their employees from the Gaza Strip

Due to the life -threatening working conditions in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations moves around a third of their international employees from the coastal area. UN General Secretary António Guterres made this “difficult decision”, announced UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric in New York. In view of the great humanitarian emergency in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations would not completely leave the area.

Around 30 of the currently 100 international employees are to leave the region for the time being, as the spokesman said. However, the other employees and the more than 10,000 local Palestinian employees of the aid organization Unrwa would continue to pursue their work.

The background is a fatal incident from last week. According to the United Nations, an UN facility was hit by an Israeli tank grenade and a Bulgarian UN employee was killed-six others from France, Moldova, Northern Macedonia, the Palestinian areas and Great Britain were wounded. Israel denied the allegations and asserted that contrary to other reports, he has not attacked a UN building.

For the first time since the beginning of a ceasefire about two months ago, the Israeli Air Force had increasingly bombed targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night last week. So far, more than 400 people have so far been killed according to the information that is not independent of the health authority controlled by the Islamist Hamas, including many minors and women.

Hamas provides “Prisoner No. 21 and 22”

The Hamas meanwhile published another propaganda video that shows two hostages recorded by it. The two young men had been at the Nova Music Festival on October 7, 2023 when Islamist terrorists committed their unprecedented massacre in southern Israel, killed 1200 people and kidnapped 250 more in the Gaza strips. The terrorist act triggered the Gaza war.

The video in which the two men were not allowed to give their names and had to describe themselves as “prisoner No. 21” and “Prisoner No. 22” appeared in the Telegram channel of the Kassam brigades, the armed arm of the Hamas. Israel’s government sees such hostage videos as part of the psychological warfare of Hamas, which thus exert pressure on the opposite side and want to raise the Israeli population against its government.

The families of the two men agreed to spread the video by Israeli media. Her son goes “through hell” in the tunnels of Hamas, wrote one of the families in a statement that published the forum of the hostage members. He suffered hunger and lost enormous weight, fights with skin and respiratory problems and has not seen any daylight for more than a year and a half. “We want to get Elkana back alive and we want the return of all hostages!”, It says in the letter.

According to Israeli information, 24 hostages are still recorded in the Gaza Strip. In addition, there are the remains of 35 deported.

Rakets from Yemen and Gaza

Meanwhile, new rocket attacks from Jemen, hundreds of kilometers away and from the Gaza Strip in Israel, triggered rocket alarm. Because of a floor that fired the Huthi militia allied with Iran in Yemen, the sirens howled in Tel Aviv and other places in the country.

According to military information, Israel’s air defense was able to shoot the rocket before reaching Israeli areas. However, some debris went down deep inside the small state of Israel without hurt people. Some floor splinters fell on the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Schemesch, as the newspaper “Times of Israel” reported citing disaster protection.

The militia of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which was also allied with the Hamas allied, shot several rockets from the north of the Gaza Strip to the Israeli area near the Gaza border. The military said that these floors were also intercepted by air defense. Shortly afterwards, the Israeli army asked the Palestinian population in some places of the northern Gaza Strip to leave their residential areas immediately. The army had identified the shooting points for the rocket attacks – and will attack them.

Activists: injured Oscar-winning director of settlers

Meanwhile, it became known that the co-director Hamdan Ballal West Bank, which was awarded an Oscar for the documentary “No Other Land”, was beaten by Jewish settlers. Subsequently, Israeli soldiers had brought the injured Palestinian filmmaker out of an ambulance and arrested, reported Palestinian activists and colleagues in Ballal. In a statement, the Israeli military denied that a Palestinian had been brought out of an ambulance.

The Palestinian-Norwegian documentary, which Ballal was shooting with the Israelis Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and the Palestinian Basel Adra, won the Oscar for the best documentary in Los Angeles in early March. “No other Land” tells of the non -violent struggle of the Palestinians in Susja and the surrounding landscape Masafer Jatta south of Hebron for the preservation of her villages and her country.

The non-state organization Center for Jewish Nonviolence announced via the Bluesky platform that Ballal was attacked by Israeli settlers in his home village of Susja in his home village of Susja in the Israeli-occupied western Bank on Monday evening. The attackers were armed with batons, knives and at least one assault rifle. Many were masked. Five Jewish-American activists were also attacked and their car was thrown at stones. It is unclear where Ballal is currently.