Hopes for calm are in vain in Gaza, with the death toll exceeding 12,000
Israel shelled homes in the eastern Gaza Strip, a mosque and a cultural center in the south, and its shells created a continuous belt of fire in the north on the morning of a new day in its war on the Strip today (Saturday). dead and wounded, and the truce efforts – already faltering – have received another blow after 43 days during which they have not suffered. The besieged sector has a calm flavor, according to the Arab World News Agency.
After Israel announced that the southern Gaza Strip will be its next destination, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, anticipated this by announcing last night (Friday) the rocket bombardment of Tel Aviv in response to what he described as Israeli massacres against civilians.
While sirens sounded, as usual in Tel Aviv, warning of hostile missiles that were reported to have caused no damage or injuries, civilians in the Gaza Strip did not have the same benefit in terms of warning, as Israeli missiles and artillery killed and injured dozens of other people. throughout the Strip, bringing the death toll to over 12,000, including five thousand children and more than three thousand women, in just 43 days and over a geographical area of no more than 360 square kilometers.
Added to these are more than 30,000 people who escaped death, but the six weeks of war have left each of them with wounds for which there is no cure in the Gaza Strip, with hospitals unable to function, or because they have run out of fuel or because they are in difficulty. they were besieged by Israeli forces.
As for the exhausted neighborhoods dreaming of stopping the fighting in Gaza, north and south, they received news from an Israeli newspaper reporting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government had informed Qatari mediators of its refusal to conclude a deal of exchanging prisoners with the Palestinians. Hamas movement, according to which 50 Israeli prisoners would be released.
The Jewish newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said Israel pledged not to separate detained families and to release all children and mothers, while Hamas offered to release 50 detainees without classification or give Israel freedom to choose the names.
The newspaper article, which was neither denied nor confirmed by the Netanyahu government, was preceded by Zaher Jabareen, responsible for the dossier of prisoners of the Hamas movement, who spoke of negotiations to conclude a ceasefire agreement in Gaza for a five day period.
In his interview with the Arab World News Agency, Jabareen delved into the details of the potential deal, referring to an agreement to release Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of some Palestinian prisoners, women and children, in occupation prisons. Jabareen did not fail to accuse Israel of being “the reason for the failure of the agreement”.
He said: “Israel has no real intention of concluding a deal anytime soon.”
He stressed that “the bombing of hospitals hinders any attempt to negotiate the release of the hostages.”
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The military in Israel is leaving politics to their politicians, to complete what they began last October 7, a global military campaign from land, sea and air on the narrow coastal strip after Qassam elements and their allies invaded Israeli cities , settlements and camps on a day that began with the launch of three thousand Palestinian rockets against Israel and ended with around 250 of its citizens held captive inside Gaza.
After weeks of ground incursions that isolated northern Gaza, the Israeli army announced that its forces would enter the southern Gaza Strip “at the appropriate time.”
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said at a news conference that the Israeli army “has very clear objectives in the war.” He stressed that the army is determined to advance wherever Hamas is present.
He added: “We will also advance into the southern Gaza Strip at the appropriate time and place we determine.”
The Jerusalem Post also quoted Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as saying that achieving a complete victory over Hamas will avoid wars long into the future.
Galant added that although the war with Hamas is a local conflict, the repercussions of this war will affect the entire Middle East region.
He continued: “Complete victory in this war will prevent future wars from breaking out for a long time.”
Yesterday, Israel recovered the bodies of two female soldiers recovered in the Gaza Strip in circumstances that had not been disclosed in the past two days. While the Israeli army continues to search for the remaining prisoners, the Al-Qassam Brigades reported that they have transferred a number of detainees to receive treatment in medical centers due to the severity of their health conditions.
The Al-Qassam Brigades added in a statement on Telegram: “In response to the lie by Netanyahu and his army spokesperson about the presence of prisoners in hospitals… we have transferred a number of them to treatment centers to receive treatment due to the seriousness of their situation, health conditions and to preserve their lives.”
The statement continues that this “happened recently with the detainee Aryeh Zalmen Zdmanovich… who received intensive care and after recovering, was returned to his place of detention and died due to panic attacks following the repeated bombings around his place of detention.”
Also on site, Abu Ubaida, spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, said that the movement managed to destroy and damage 62 Israeli military vehicles in the last four days.
The spokesperson added that Al-Qassam fighters managed “three days ago to kill at least nine Israeli soldiers in two separate operations.”
He continued: “Yesterday, members of the Al-Qassam Brigades destroyed a residential apartment where Israeli special forces were barricaded in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths and injuries of all those holed up there.”
Abu Ubaida mocked what the Israeli army was doing at the Shifa Medical Complex and said that Israel was looking for a mirage there, which demonstrated its inability.
He added that what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking for in Al-Shifa hospital is “ridiculous.”
Yesterday there were deaths in Jenin and today in Nablus and Tubas
The Palestinian Red Crescent announced that at least five people were killed on Saturday in an explosion in Balata camp, east of Nablus in the West Bank.
This comes as witnesses told the Arab World News Agency that there was an Israeli shelling of Nablus, as electricity was cut near a targeted area of the camp.
The Palestinian news agency reported that an Israeli drone bombed the headquarters of the Fatah movement in the camp, underlining that serious damage was caused to the site.
Palestine TV reported today that an Israeli army force stormed the West Bank town of Tulkarem. Video footage broadcast on television showed Israeli military vehicles driving down a main street in the city, hoisting Israeli flags. It was not immediately clear what caused the raid or its results.
Not far away, in Tubas, a Palestinian was killed by Israeli army gunfire after clashes and clashes with armed men that also left three injured, according to a medical source who spoke to the Arab World News Agency.
Also in Tubas, the Palestinian news agency reported that the army has sent military reinforcements towards Tubas, where it described the ongoing clashes as violent.
After another bloody night in Jenin, the Palestinian News Agency reported Friday evening that new clashes broke out between Palestinians and Israeli forces in the town of Ya`bad, southwest of the city.
The agency cited sources as saying that Israeli army forces stormed the city and raided several neighborhoods, causing clashes to break out.
The Israeli newspaper “Jerusalem Post” then reported that the army was conducting an operation near Hebron and Jenin in the West Bank to arrest individuals suspected of involvement in activities described as “terrorist”.
Gaza is back on the Security Council table
On the other hand, the UAE mission to the United Nations said on Saturday that it and Malta had called for a Security Council meeting next week, in light of what it described as “the extremely worrying developments in the Palestinian territory occupied and their serious impact on women and children”.
The Council session, the date of which is not yet known, will be the latest attempt by the United Nations to stop the shedding of Palestinian blood in the Gaza Strip, which continues despite the Security Council having approved, a few days ago, a project resolution calling for humanitarian interventions and truces in Gaza.
The UAE mission said it had requested the Executive Director of UN Women and the Executive Director of UNICEF to provide briefings to the Council.
The Palestinian ambassador to the European Union, Abdel Rahim Al-Farra, expected the European Union to adopt a united position on the humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza during an emergency meeting of its foreign ministers next Monday.
Also in politics, the Palestinian ambassador to the European Union, Abdel Rahim Al-Farra, believes that the European Union could arrive at a united position on the humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza during an emergency meeting of ministers of Foreign Affairs to be held the day after tomorrow, Monday. .
Al-Farra told the Arab World News Agency that the European Union “is seeing a more than rapid movement to stop this aggression, but without a direct statement on the matter,” referring to the trip of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Egypt today. her, Saturday, where she will visit Cairo and then Amman.
European Union Foreign Affairs Commissioner Josep Borrell is visiting the region, where he met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Friday and called on Israel “not to be guided by anger” into the war.
Al-Farra revealed that von der Leyen will travel to Al-Arish, North Sinai, Egypt, “to see the volume of humanitarian aid coming from European Union countries, and will receive at Al-Arish airport two cargo planes carrying humanitarian materials and medicines. equipment.”
The Palestinian ambassador believes that the president of the European Commission aims, through her visit to Egypt and Jordan, “to discover the truth about Israel’s obstruction of aid, following the Arab countries’ request to the European Commission to put pressure on Israel to stop obstructing the entry of this humanitarian aid into Gaza.”