2023-10-16 07:34:21
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday that there was “no ceasefire” at this stage between Israel and Palestinian Hamas, on the tenth day of a war that has claimed thousands of deaths. “There is no ceasefire and no entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza in exchange for the exit of foreigners,” Mr. Netanyahu’s office said in a short statement, after reports state of a truce.
Israel has urged residents of northern Gaza – about 1.1 million people out of a total population of 2.4 million – to flee south, saying it would strike northern Gaza City to destroy the center of Israel’s operations there. Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. More than a million people have been displaced in a week, according to the UN.
The Israeli army indicated on Monday that it would “refrain” from striking the evacuation corridors linking the north to the south of the Gaza Strip in the morning, at a time when it is preparing a ground offensive targeting Hamas in power. At the Rafah border crossing, in the south of the micro-territory, on the border with Egypt and the only one not controlled by Israel, humanitarian aid flows from several capitals, but does not get through.
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According to witnesses on the Egyptian side, the aid convoys had not left the town of Al-Arich, about forty kilometers east of Rafah, on Monday.
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