2023-12-13 21:28:05
Continued suffering
In a rare joint statement, the Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand declared themselves on Wednesday:alarmed by diminishing safety space for civilians in Gaza“. “The price of defeating Hamas cannot be the continued suffering of all Palestinian civilians“, they added.
In the Gaza Strip, where 85% of the 2.4 million inhabitants have been displaced – many multiple times since October 7 – and entire neighborhoods destroyed by bombing, Palestinians live “hell on earth“, launched the director of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini.
In the small territory subject to an Israeli blockade for more than 15 years and a total siege for two months, new raids left more than 50 dead during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in Gaza City, Nousseirat, Deir al-Balah , Khan Yunis and Rafah, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.
The Israeli army declared war on Hamas after an attack of unprecedented violence and scale carried out on October 7 against Israel by its commandos infiltrated from the neighboring Gaza Strip, which left around 1,200 dead, the majority civilians, according to authorities.
She promised to destroy Hamas, classified as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union. Its offensive in Gaza has cost the lives of more than 18,400 people, the vast majority of them women and those under 18, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health. According to the UN agency responsible for humanitarian coordination (Ocha), many people remain missing under the rubble.
On October 7, Palestinian fighters also took around 240 hostages to Gaza, where 135 are still detained, according to the army, after several releases, including around a hundred during a truce at the end of November.
Israel launched a ground offensive in northern Gaza on October 27, before extending it to the entire territory. More than a hundred soldiers died in this operation, including eight on Tuesday, according to the Israeli army.
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