The situation at an overview: Israel extends military operation in Gaza

Israel’s army extends her soil inserts in the Gaza Strip and, according to un-specifications, squeezes hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into an ever smaller area on the Mediterranean coast. According to her own, Israel wants to create a larger buffer zone along its border. In the evening, a military spokesman asked residents in the Nuseirirat area in the center of Gazas for the immediate leaving district. According to the army, Israel had previously been shot from there. A rocket was therefore intercepted.

Meanwhile, unconfirmed Arabic reported a clinic building in Gaza City in the north of the sealed area was hit during air strikes. Israel’s troops have started new missions in the city to destroy the Islamist Hamas infrastructure and expand a “security zone” in the area, as a army speaker said. Dozens of terrorists were killed. Hours earlier, Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz had announced an expansion of military operation in the Gaza Strip.

Army should conquer extensive areas

According to it, the army is to conquer extensive areas in the sealed coastal strip, which should become Israeli “security zones”. The city of Rafah in the south, which has been surrounded since Saturday, is now part of such a zone, according to Katz, according to Israeli media, wrote in a statement addressed to the Palestinian population. Israel’s military will soon extend his commitment to other parts of the Gaza Strip. The population would have to leave the combat areas, it continued.

After a two -month ceasefire, Israel’s army resumed her massive attacks in mid -March after no agreement with Hamas had been extended. Since then, according to the UN Palestinian Aid Unk, almost 400,000 people have been sold within the sealed-up Gaza Strip. Overall, more than two million people live in the densely populated area on the Mediterranean.

UN office warns of forced disorders

The increasingly frequent evacuation commands of Israel’s army would have led to the fact that Palestinians are violently pushed into ever smaller areas in which they had little or no access to water, food and accommodation, the UN human rights office complained.

A temporary evacuation of civilians in certain areas could be legal under strict conditions. “However, the type and scope of the evacuation commands give reason to the serious concern that Israel intends to permanently drive the civilian population from these areas to create a so -called buffer zone,” said the spokeswoman for the office, Ravina Shamdasani, on Friday in Geneva. Forced displacement violates the Geneva conventions to protect the civilian population under an occupying power. That is a crime against humanity.

For more than a month, Israel has also no longer let humanitarian aid to Gaza. With the measure, which mainly affects the needy civilian population, Israel wants to increase the pressure on Hamas to hand over the last Israeli hostages who were deported to Israel on October 7, 2023 in the terrorist attack of Hamas and other extremists. However, Hamas is only available for the release of the 24 hostages and handover of 35 corpses of kidnapped people if Israel agrees at the end of the war.

Hundreds are reminiscent of hostages at the Pessach Festival

In the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, several hundred people reminded of the fate of hostages during the Pessach Festival, one of the most important Jewish festivals. In the open air in the so-called Seder meal, some symbolically kept an empty chair at their table, others put pictures of the hostages. The meal is reminiscent of the captivity of the people of Israel described in the Bible and its liberation from slavery.

Meanwhile, a delegation from Hamas traveled to Cairo at the invitation of the Egyptian government. It is about talking about an exchange of hostages with Palestinian prisoners. Hamas therefore states that Israel ends the war and withdraws completely from the Gaza Strip. Israel’s leadership rejects this. Their goal is to complete Hamas.