Location at a glance: Israel wants to cancel blockade for relief supplies to Gaza

The Israeli government wants to let humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip again after almost three months of blockade. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that there should be no famine. Such a crisis would endanger the continuation of the new major offensive to destroy the Islamist Hamas, it said. After days of massive attacks by the Air Force, Israel now also has ground troops.

Netanyahu: Hissing emergency would endanger offensive

Since the beginning of March, Israel had left no more aid deliveries into the sealed off and after more than one and a half years of war, a large -scale coastal area. The country accuses Hamas to resell the relief goods to finance their fighters and weapons. The approximately 2.2 million inhabitants of Gaza are almost exclusively dependent on the outside help.

US envoy: We don’t want a humanitarian crisis

The UN and aid organizations warn of a famine; The appeals to Israel recently became more and more vehemently. According to several media, the blockade is canceled primarily on the US pressure. “We do not want to see a humanitarian crisis and we will not allow it to enter Trump’s lead under President (Donald),” said US broadcasting Steve Witkoff to the US broadcaster ABC News. The United States is Israel’s most important arms supplier. It was initially unclear when the first relief supplies would come back to the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli Air Force has been flying massive attacks in the Gaza Strip for days. At the weekend, the army also started with a large -scale use of floor troops. According to Palestinian information, there were numerous deaths. According to eyewitnesses, several people are currently fleeing from the north to the south of the coastal area. According to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, all clinics are now out of operation in the north. On request, Israel’s army initially did not comment on it. It accuses Hamas of entrenising with hospitals and using them for military purposes.

Report: USA with a new mediation proposal

Both Israel and Hamas were delegations in Katar’s capital Doha on Sunday to negotiate with Arabic intermediaries about a new ceasefire deal. The US news page “Axios” reported on an Israeli civil servant and another source that Witkoff had made an updated proposal to both warring parties, which in return for a 45-60-day waffle rest and the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisoners.

The advance contains a new wording that the fire break could lead to an end to the war, it said. The phrase aims to guarantee Hamas that Netanyahu cannot again one -sided to declare the ceasefire again and resume the war. Israel’s negotiation team in Qatar is “every possibility” for a hostage agreement, either according to Witkoff’s plan or in a framework for the end of the war, Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday, according to the “Times of Israel”.

Does Netanyahu change its position?

In addition to the release of all hostages, the prerequisite for the fact that Hamas goes into exile and that the people in the coastal area are disarmed. Netanyahu thus signal a new willingness to discuss a path to the end of the war, wrote the “Wall Street Journal”. Just recently, Israel’s head of government still emphasized that although a temporary ceasefire was possible, but not a permanent end to the fights in Gaza.

According to Israeli media reports, relief supplies for the needy population are to reach the ways previously used in the sealed coastal strips after the blockade has been lifted until a planned new mechanism is implemented. Israel will take measures so that the help does not get into the hands of Hamas, Netanyahu’s office continued.

New mechanism controversial for help

For the time being, the auxiliary deliveries should now provide international organizations such as the World Food Program (WFP) and the World Central Kitchen, as the news portal “Walla.co.il” reported. At the end of the month, a new mechanism should work that is not undisputed. According to reports, goods should only be distributed from a few locations in the Gaza Strip. The UN had criticized the new mechanism, among other things because civilians got into the crossfire on the way to the distribution centers and, for example, old and sick could not reach them at all.

The Gaza War started in October 2023 with a terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel, in which around 1,200 people were killed and kidnapped around 250. According to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, more than 53,300 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which has been lasting for more than one and a half years, were killed in the Gaza Strip. The number does not differentiate between fighters and civilians and can hardly be checked independently.