2023-12-05 11:14:12
The Israeli army on Tuesday intensified its operations against fighters of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the south of the Gaza Strip where witnesses reported violent fighting, raising fears of a “even more hellish scenario” for civilians, according to the UN.
He is “impossible“to implement secure zones, designated by Israel for civilians in the Gaza Strip to take refuge there and escape the fighting,” James Elder, spokesperson for the United Nations Fund for Development, said on Tuesday. childhood (UNICEF) who returns from Palestinian territory.These zones cannot be safe or humanitarian when declared unilaterally“, “they are not scientific, they are not rational, they are not possible“.
About two civilians were killed for every Hamas fighter killed in the Gaza Strip, senior Israeli military officials said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity. Asked about reports that 5,000 Hamas fighters had been killed, one of the senior officials said: “The figures are more or less accurate“.
The Hamas Health Ministry said Monday that 15,899 people, 70% of them women as well as children and adolescents, have been killed since Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip began on October 7.
Since the resumption of fighting on December 1 after a seven-day truce, the army has intensely shelled the south of the territory, causing many deaths and injuries among the inhabitants of this region and the civilians who came to take refuge there, trapped in an increasingly restricted scope.
The Israeli armed forces also announced this Tuesday morning on Telegram that their troops carried out operations against Hamas in Jabalya on Monday.
The Palestinian telecommunications company, Paltel, for its part, indicated on Tuesday that telecommunications services in the Gaza Strip had been partially restored following a cut in the main fiber networks.
The conflict in the Middle East also has repercussions in Belgium. According to The morning, last year, the Israeli shipping company ZIM transported 246 tons of munitions and 20 tons of detonators through the port of Antwerp. It was a transit to Israel, despite Flemish restrictions.
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