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Find here the latest developments in the war waged by Israel in the Gaza Strip, following an unprecedented attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Israeli gunfire kills six Gaza residents waiting for aid trucks
Israeli fire killed six Palestinians and injured dozens more, as crowds of residents waited for aid trucks in Gaza City, Gaza Health Ministry officials said Thursday.
Palestinians were rushing for aid supplies at the Kuwait Roundabout in northern Gaza City late Wednesday night when Israeli forces opened fire, residents and health officials said . The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the incident.
One of the UNRWA warehouses, hit in Rafah by a strike, leaves one dead and many injured
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced that one of its warehouses was “hit” on Wednesday by a strike in Rafah, a town in the south of the Gaza Strip. “At least one UNRWA employee was killed and 22 others injured in an Israeli strike against a food distribution center in eastern Rafah,” said a statement from the agency. The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, for its part, reported four deaths in the “bombing” of the warehouse.
For its part, the Israeli army announced that it had “eliminated a terrorist” from Hamas in this strike. The name of this member of the Palestinian Islamist movement given by the army, Mohammad Abou Hasna, appears on the list of four dead from the strike on the Unrwa warehouse communicated a little earlier by the Hamas Ministry of Health , where he is identified as a movement police officer responsible for the security of this warehouse.
Launch of ‘pilot project’ to bring aid directly into northern Gaza
Six humanitarian aid trucks entered on Tuesday directly in the north of the Gaza Strip, threatened with famineas part of a Israeli army “pilot project”she announced early Wednesday.
Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, the Israeli army tightened its controls on aid entering the Gaza Strip, allowing conveyors to enter only sparingly in the south of the landlocked territory. However, the north of the territory is in the grip of a “humanitarian disaster” the United Nations World Food Program warned on Monday, calling on Israel to reopen road entry points to allow more humanitarian aid to be sent.
Cyprus sends aid to Gaza by sea
The first boat using a maritime corridor between Cyprus and the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid left on Tuesday for the Palestinian territory on the brink of famine. On board the eponymous ship of the Spanish NGO Open Arms: around 200 tonnes of food (rice, flour, canned goods, etc.) which must be distributed in Gaza by Spanish-American chef José Andrés’ organization, World Central Kitchen (WCK).
But Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip judged Wednesday that the arrival ofaid was insufficient in the face of the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory after more than five months of war. “Given what has been announced, the boat’s cargo does not exceed that of one or two trucks and will take days to arrive,” said Salama Marouf, spokesperson for the government press service, in a statement. of Hamas.
In parallel, a second ship loaded with humanitarian aid for Gaza is at the port of Larnaca, waiting to begin the smooth unloading of a first delivery of food in the Palestinian territory, the Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. “In the current option, we operate through an NGO, we already have follow-up with a commercial vessel of greater capacity” which will be able to leave Cyprus “after the first unloading, if there are no problems”, he said. explained Constantinos Kombos to some journalists in Nicosia.
Faced with the insufficiency of aid arriving by land in the territory devastated, aid is dropped by air and will now also be able to be transported by sea thanks to the opening of this corridor. But the sending of aid by sea and airdrops by several countries, which have become daily in recent days, cannot replace the land route.hammers the UN.
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Hamas announces new death toll of 31,184 in the Gaza Strip
The Hamas Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday a new toll of 31,184 people killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement. Among them, at least 72 were killed in the last 24 hours, the ministry said in a statement, reporting a total of 72,889 wounded since the start of the war on October 7.
Israel and Hamas no closer to agreement on Gaza truce
Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas are not not close to reaching an agreement on a truce in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages, declared Tuesday the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, mediator country in the conflict which has been tearing apart the Middle East since October 7. Majed al-Ansari added that talks between the sides were continuing, after just over five months since the outbreak of violence between Israel and Hamas.
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