A number of arrows in the Gaza And an increasingly vocal outcry on quasi-family conditions on Palestinian territory puts pressure on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a cease-fire negotiated with Hamas and drop the almost total blockage of the enclave of his country. The Ministry of Health managed by Gaza said on Tuesday that at least 87 people had been killed by Israeli military strikes in the past 24 hours.
Israeli defense forces have Accelerated operations in Gaza During the last week, killing hundreds of people, including many women and children, in what the government of Netanyahu insists is a legitimate self -defense and aimed entirely to return the return of 58 hostages Always held by Hamas and its allies in Gaza, and destroying the group. Israel criticizes Hamas – for a long time designated a terrorist organization in the United States, Israel and the European Union – for all the victims of Gaza, accusing the group of operating in and around civil infrastructure.
Monday, for the first time in two and a half months, Netanyahu authorized a handful of trucks with aid to enter Gaza. He said he had been forced to relieve the total blockade by allies who could not tolerate “images of mass famine”.
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There were unconfirmed reports on Tuesday that 100 trucks were allowed to cross the Gaza border. But the United Nations World Food Program said this week that a few trucks would only be a drop in the bucket given the vast and urgent need for food in Gaza, where more than 2 million Palestinians have been trapped for more than two years of stocky war.
Thousands of trucks have been lined up for weeks just opposite the Gaza border, not expecting food. No food, fresh water or medication had entered the territory for almost 80 days under the Israeli blockade. Hunger is so rigorous that the full -fledged famine tracks the population of Gaza once again, according to the director of PAM for the Palestinian territories, Antoine Renard, who has just returned from the enclave.
“You Have around 14,000 children I know that I know what we call acute serious malnutrition, “he told CBS News on Monday, which means that these children could die without rapid intervention.” We are still waiting when “famine” is on. But when the famine is lit, it is already too late. It will be a failure of the whole international community. »»
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Until this week, the Israeli government had insisted that there was no food shortage in Gaza. But for the first time, in a message Published Monday on social networksNetanyahu recognized that Gaza is approaching a hunger crisis.
“Our best friends in the world, the senators that I know as an enthusiastic supporters of Israel, whom I have known for many years, came to me and tell me:” We give you all the support of a final victory – weapons, the support of your maneuvers to destroy Hamas, we cannot be witnesses.
Following this pressure, it authorizes the limited amount of Gaza aid.
Renard said that WFP had enough food on standby, ready to enter, feeding the entire Gaza population for a month.
“It must stop,” he said about the Israeli blockade. “The civilian population should not be trapped. There is no reason, in fact, to keep them responsible for what they are not part of.”
Netanyahu did not name any of the nations exercising pressure on his government to alleviate the blockade, and although the nearest and vital ally of Israel, the United States, was almost certainly the country to which he referred when he mentioned the long-standing senators, it is not only the United States calling for a resolution to the crisis-and other countries have done in a higher way.
In a declaration strongly written on Monday, the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Canada called the level of human suffering in intolerable Gaza, and they threatened to act.
“The denial of the Israeli government of essential humanitarian aid for the civilian population is unacceptable and risks violating international humanitarian law,” countries said in a joint statement. “We oppose any attempt to expand the regulations in the West Bank … We will not hesitate to take other measures, including targeted sanctions.”
Netanyahu destroyed the threat, saying in a statement that “by asking Israel to end a defensive war for our survival in front of Hamas terrorists at our border and demanding a Palestinian state, London, Ottowa and Paris leaders offer a huge prize for the genocidal attack against Israel on October 7 while inviting more atrocities.”
“War can end tomorrow if the remaining hostages are released, Hamas lay down its weapons, its deadly leaders are exiled and Gaza is demilitarized,” said the Israeli leader. “No nation can accept whatever
Israel increased his war with a new offensive that killed nearly 600 people in last week, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, managed by Hamas.
Doctors lack supplies – barely capable of treating children in malnutrition, not to mention hundreds of people injured by Israeli strikes who spread day after day.
The war in Gaza was launched by the terrorist attack led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and left 251 other hostages in Gaza. The war of reprisals of Israel destroyed large expanses of Gaza, displaced 90% of its population – most of them repeatedly – and killed more than 53,500 Palestinians, according to the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas in Gaza.