War between Israel and Gaza: summary of 03/12/2024 |

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured this Tuesday that Israel will continue with its military campaign in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, despite growing international pressure. “We will finish the work in Rafah and at the same time allow the civilian population to get away from danger,” he promised. Meanwhile, the White House has warned that it has not yet seen a credible plan to protect civilians in Rafah, where 1.3 million people are crowded.

The first humanitarian aid convoy to arrive in northern Gaza in three weeks has done so using an Israeli military road whose use until now has been restricted, the Israeli army has reported. This road runs parallel to the border line that separates the Palestinian enclave from purely Israeli territory.

Israeli warplanes attacked the interior of Lebanon on Tuesday for the second day in a row, hitting two Hezbollah bases in the Bekaa Valley and killing at least one member of the Iran-backed group, Lebanese sources told Reuters. The Israeli army has assured that its fighter planes have attacked “two Hezbollah military command centers” in the Baalbek area, after the Shiite Islamist organization had launched more than a hundred Katyusha missiles against Israeli territory in the early hours of the morning. Israel has claimed to have attacked around 4,500 targets, killing more than 300 militants and wounding about 700 in five months of mutual attacks. Under the generic name of “targets”, located in both Lebanon and Syria, Israel usually includes alleged militants, but also rocket launchers, command and control centers or weapons warehouses.

A 13-year-old Palestinian teenager died this Tuesday after being shot by an Israeli agent in the Shuafat refugee camp, on the outskirts of East Jerusalem, police and government sources have confirmed.

At least 68 Gazan children were transferred from an orphanage inoperative due to the war in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, to another of the same organization in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, the UN confirmed this Tuesday, after the Government German made such a request to Israel. “The group (of children) received approval from the Israeli authorities to enter Egypt through the Rafah crossing and then into Israel through the Taba crossing,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Affairs detailed this Tuesday. Humanitarian (OCHA).

Josep Borrell, high representative of the EU for Foreign Policy, recovered this Tuesday before the UN Security Council the idea of ​​​​a speech by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, which earned him a barrage of criticism at the end of October . “Gaza represents almost a century of conflict. [La guerra] “It is not a natural catastrophe like an earthquake, it is a catastrophe caused by man,” he noted, while denouncing “the use of hunger as a weapon of war.” Admitting Israel’s right to defend itself, he has clarified that it must do so “with respect for international legality.”