2023-11-07 18:10:00
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a ceasefire in the war against Hamas, which entered its second month on Tuesday, despite repeated calls for a humanitarian truce in Gaza and after a death toll of more than 10,000 in Gaza. the enclave, according to the Palestinian movement.
During the night, Israeli aerial bombardments continued against the Palestinian territory controlled by the Islamist movement, leaving more than 100 dead, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.
Under air cover, Israeli ground troops continued to advance into the Strip after encircling Gaza City and cutting the territory in half, according to the military.
“There will be no ceasefire in Gaza without the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu said in an interview with US channel > on Monday night, a month after hundreds of Hamas fighters carried out the October 7 the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.
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More than 1,400 people died in that attack, according to authorities, mostly civilians on the same day of the assault. Among the dead there are more than 300 soldiers.
Hamas also captured more than 240 people, including civilians, taken hostage, and soldiers who took it to Gaza.
“With regard to small tactical pauses, an hour here, an hour there, we have already had them,” Netanyahu added, referring to a White House statement that speaks of the “possibility of tactical pauses” to allow civilians to flee. of the fighting and for humanitarian aid to enter.
In 2005 after 38 years of occupation, Israel unilaterally withdrew its soldiers and settlers from Gaza. But Netanyahu now said his country would assume “for an indefinite period, overall responsibility for security” in the Palestinian territory after the war.
Netanyahu has vowed to annihilate Hamas, an organization labeled “terrorist” by the United States and the European Union.
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Gazans on foot flee Israeli bombings with white flags
With improvised white flags and sometimes with their hands raised, Gazans fled this Tuesday towards the south of the Palestinian territory among corpses and Israeli troops, following the orders of the Jewish State.
The war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which has ruled the Strip since 2007, has forced more than 1.5 million Gazans to flee their homes, according to the UN. 2.4 million people live in the 362 km2 territory.
According to Hamas, more than 10,3000 people, including more than 4,200 children, have died in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israeli bombing.
Fighting inside Gaza for the first time in years
The Israeli Army, which is celebrating a month of war against the Islamist group Hamas, announced this Tuesday that its troops are fighting inside the Palestinian city of Gaza for the first time in years.
“For the first time in decades, the Israeli Defense Forces are fighting in the heart of Gaza City,” Yaron Finkelman, commander of the Israeli Army’s Southern Command, said today.
Israeli troops entered the Strip by land ten days ago, after several weeks of continuous artillery attacks from Israeli soil and aerial bombardments, while the soldiers had managed to surround Gaza City, the main city of the Palestinian enclave.
“At this very moment, our soldiers are eliminating terrorists, discovering tunnels, destroying weapons while continuing to advance towards the center of the enemy,” added Commander Finkelman quoted in a military statement.
Soldiers took control of a Hamas military stronghold in the heart of Gaza City and attacked militants holed up near a hospital, the Israel Defense Forces said today, noting that the army continues to deepen and expand its ground offensive in the fringe.
Complicated situation in southern Lebanon
The exchanges of fire between Israel and militias in southern Lebanon continued this Tuesday with the launch of 20 rockets towards Israeli soil, where troops responded with artillery, in addition to other cross attacks.
“After the sirens that sounded in northern Israel, 20 (rocket) launches were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory,” reported a spokesperson for the Israeli Army, who specified that his troops “are attacking the origins of the launches.” with artillery.”
Hours earlier, the Army reported that it bombed “a terrorist cell that tried to launch anti-tank missiles against Israeli territory near the town of Shtula” and that it attacked a military post of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah “with the aim of neutralizing a threat.”
No group has yet claimed responsibility for launching these rockets, but the al-Qasam Brigades – the armed wing of Hamas – claimed responsibility for around thirty rockets the day before, although most of the attacks in the last month have been claimed by the Shiite militia. Lebanese Hezbollah.
Mass evacuation of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip
The Israeli Army released a video on Tuesday showing hundreds of Palestinians, some with their arms raised and others carrying white flags, apparently walking towards the southern Gaza Strip to flee incessant bombing by Israeli forces.
A dense caravan, made up of men, women, children and even a donkey pulling a cart, walks in front of an Israeli Army tank along a street whose buildings show serious damage, according to the 17-second video posted on the account of the social network X (formerly Twitter) of Avichay Adraee, the Arabic spokesperson for the Israeli Army.
“Today, the Israel Defense Forces once again allow passage on the Salah al Din road between 10:00 and 14:00 local time (08:00-12:00 GMT). For your safety, take this opportunity to move south, beyond Wadi,” a town in the center of the Palestinian enclave, Adraee wrote alongside the video.
“If you care about yourself and your loved ones, go south according to our instructions,” added the spokesman, who denounced that the Palestinian Islamist group “Hamas continues to undermine humanitarian efforts.”
MSF calls for a “vital urgency” ceasefire
The organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called this Tuesday for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, considering it essential to organize the humanitarian response and a “vital emergency” for the population of the Palestinian territory bombed by Israel.
One month after the bloody attack perpetrated by the Islamist group Hamas in Israel, MSF described a “catastrophic humanitarian situation” in the Palestinian territory plunged into a “total war,” according to the organization’s director, Claire Magone.
“The population is exhausted and the lifeguards are practically helpless. In the face of the catastrophe, a ceasefire is a matter of vital urgency,” declared Magone, during a press conference at the organization’s headquarters in Paris.
“Currently, there are only misleading signs of humanity and dilatory discussions,” he denounced, after evoking the “tactical pauses” discussed between Israel and the United States to allow for a humanitarian respite.
MSF, which has about 300 Palestinian employees, evacuated its 22 expatriate members a few days ago, but hopes to quickly gain access to new equipment.
According to the UN, Israel attacked four hospitals
The surroundings of four hospitals in Gaza City were bombed this Monday, causing eight deaths and damaging certain equipment, the United Nations Humanitarian Aid Coordination Office (OCHA) said today.
Among them were a pediatric hospital and another psychiatric hospital, amid new calls from the Israeli army for the population remaining in the north of the Gaza Strip (about 400,000 people) to evacuate to the south of this territory through a corridor between certain hours.
According to UN observers, some 5,000 people used that road on foot, since the route has been severely damaged and vehicles cannot travel.
“Entire families, including children, the elderly and people with disabilities, reported that they had traveled long distances on foot, carrying their personal belongings by hand. The Israeli army has claimed that Hamas has been physically hindering population movements to the south,” notes the OCHA daily report on the situation in Gaza.
According to the latest estimates, 1.5 million Gazans are internally displaced and almost half of them have sought refuge in 149 United Nations facilities, as well as hospitals, churches and public buildings. Some 110,000 people are in schools not related to the United Nations or with families that host them.
Hamas blames Israel for obstructing hostage release
Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Al Qasam Brigades, a militia of the Islamist group Hamas, said today that Israel “obstructed” the release of 12 hostages with foreign citizenship held captive in Gaza a few days ago, even though the brigades were about to free them.
“The Brigades were about to release 12 detainees with foreign nationality, but the occupation (Israel) obstructed it,” said the same source in a statement on Telegram, which did not specify how exactly this alleged obstruction occurred, while they continue the constant bombings on the enclave.
More than 10,300 dead in Gaza
The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas stated this Tuesday that 10,328 people have died in the Gaza Strip since the war with Israel began on October 7.
The death toll in the Gaza Strip from this war had surpassed the threshold of 10,000 deaths on Monday, the vast majority of them civilians, of which more than 4,000 were children.
Two dead and more than 50 Palestinians detained in the West Bank
Today, the occupied West Bank experienced another night of raids and clashes with Israeli forces that resulted in more than 50 arrests and two dead Palestinians, as well as an attempted attack, while the death toll in this territory has now reached 163 since the war between Israel and Israel began. Hamas in Gaza a month ago.
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, two young Palestinians died in clashes with Israeli troops in separate incidents, one of them a 19-year-old who was killed by Israeli gunfire in the village of Beit Anan, in the north-central West Bank.
The other dead, 24 years old, died in the town of Sair, in the southern area of the West Bank, where there were clashes with Israeli troops that in turn left at least two injured and dozens of people who were treated by medical services in the area due to inhalation of tear gas.
The Israeli incursions took place in different parts of the West Bank, which left at least 56 arrested, within the framework of an extensive arrest campaign by Israel, which has already detained more than 1,200 people, many of them with suspicions of being linked to the Islamist movement Hamas.
The Israeli Army stated in a statement that it detained 28 people in recent hours, “including 28 terrorists” from Hamas.
G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting
The G7 Foreign Ministers today began a meeting in Tokyo focused on the worsening of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli offensive and on maintaining support for Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion.
The meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom), joined by the head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, began this Tuesday with a working dinner and will continue with several meeting sessions on Wednesday.
“Close communication within the G7 has never been more important than now, at a time when the international situation is becoming increasingly serious and complicated,” said the Japanese Foreign Minister, Yoko Kamikawa, at the beginning of the meeting.
Kamikawa invited his counterparts to discuss “candidly and deeply” the most urgent global issues, among which the situation in the Middle East stood out.
Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the rubble of a residential building after an Israeli attack in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, November 7, 2023.
Photo: EFE – HAITHAM IMAD
Israel will take charge of security in Gaza, says Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel will be in charge of Gaza security indefinitely once the war they are waging in that Palestinian territory ends.
“I believe that Israel will have, for an indefinite period, overall responsibility for security because we have seen what happens when we don’t have it,” Netanyahu said in an excerpt from the interview with the American network ABC that is broadcast tonight.
“When we don’t have that security responsibility, what we have is an eruption of Hamas terror on a scale we couldn’t imagine,” he added.
The Israeli Prime Minister responded this way when asked who should govern Gaza once the war ends, to which he replied: “Those who do not want to follow the path of Hamas.”
Netanyahu also recalled that his Government does not see the possibility of a ceasefire in Gaza, unless the more than 240 hostages that the Islamist group Hamas took after the October 7 attack on Israeli territory are released.
Israel claims military advances
The Israeli Army reported this Tuesday that its troops took control of a military stronghold of the Islamist group Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip and attacked one of its cells in a building next to a hospital in Gaza City.
“Over the past day, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops secured a military stronghold belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the northern Gaza Strip. The troops located anti-tank missiles, projectile launchers, weapons and various intelligence materials at the site,” the military spokesperson announced.
“In addition, IDF troops located several Hamas terrorists who barricaded themselves in a building adjacent to Al Quds Hospital and were planning to carry out an attack against the forces from there. IDF soldiers directed a plane to attack Hamas terrorists. The attack caused significant secondary explosions indicating the presence of a Hamas weapons depot in a civilian area,” the Army added.
During the night, in addition, troops carried out air and sea attacks against a series of Hamas “terrorist cells” and different targets of the Islamist group in the enclave, including a group of militiamen who were preparing to launch an anti-tank missile. .
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