Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said this on Saturday Summit in Cairo aims to stop escalation between Hamas and Israel that the Palestinians will never leave their territory and will resist to the end Tel Aviv’s attempts to forcibly relocate the population of Gaza to Egypt, EFE reports.
Abbas said the Palestinian Authority, which he heads, is the only body that represents Palestinians. and that the only solution for the region was the creation of two states in ancient Palestine.
The summit and the delivery of humanitarian aid mark this Saturday the day of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
– Authorities managing the Rafah border crossing, which connects northern Egyptian Sinai with the Gaza Strip, closed the crossing this Saturday on both sides after unloading 20 humanitarian aid trucks were ready for this first missionwithout knowing when they will reopen it.
North Sinai Red Crescent President Khaled Said told EFE that “the border crossing is closed on both sides, both from the Egyptian and Palestinian sides, after the 20 trucks that entered through the Rafah Pass those who entered the Strip will be unloaded their cargo and return to the Egyptian lands.
Said made this more precise Deliveries to Palestinian side of Rafah are “medical aid only”that none of the deliveries contained fuel or water and that it was not known when a new aid delivery would be delivered to the Palestinian enclave and how many trucks would be able to enter.
– The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, called in a statement on Saturday for the evacuation of the wounded from Gaza “since the enclave’s health system is unable to care for them.”said the Spanish agency.
—The number of people who have left their homes in Gaza due to Israeli attacks has now risen to 1.4 millionalmost two-thirds of the 2.2 million people who live in the Palestinian strip.
In its daily report on the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories since the outbreak of the conflict on October 7, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that around 544,000 of these displaced people are seeking refuge in shelters run by the United States agency United Nations for the Palestinian Refugee Population (UNRWA). More than 100,000 of them are in churches, hospitals and other public buildings in Gaza City.
In addition, a report includes the death toll provided by Gaza’s Ministry of Health: 4,137 (352 more than yesterday).
—Israel today issued a travel warning for its citizens not to travel to Egypt, Jordan or Morocco given the risk of becoming a target of attacks.
A joint statement from the National Security Agency, the Prime Minister’s Office and the Foreign Ministry also called on Israelis in those countries to leave “as soon as possible.”
“Due to the continuation of the war, another important one occurred in recent days Intensification of protests against Israel in several countries, especially in the Arab countries of the Middle Eastalong with signs of hostility and violence against Israeli and Jewish symbols,” said the statement quoted by EFE.
—In Gaza, At least 18 Palestinian Christians have been killed in an Israeli army bomb attack on the Orthodox Church of Saint PorphyryEFE said hundreds of people sought refuge, including families with children, according to official Palestinian sources.
Issa Mousleh, spokesman for the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, confirmed the impact of Israeli projectiles on the temple and did not rule out that the number of victims was higher because “many of the approximately 450 people who housed the church are lying under the rubble and there .” There are no effective tools to eliminate them quickly.
—“There are no winners in this conflict,” Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said at the peace summit in Cairo on Saturday. to find a solution to the humanitarian and political crisis in Gaza.
I confirm that The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is deterioratingbesieged by Israel as punishment for the attack by the Islamist group Hamas that sparked the current war, which Vieira has condemned.
—The European Union, through the President of the European Council, Charles Michelreiterated this Saturday before the main political leaders of the Arab world gathered at the peace summit in Cairo Israel has “the right to self-defense, but within the framework of international law.”“.
Michel, who leads the European delegation at the meeting organized by Egypt, began his speech by pointing out that “terrorism against Israel and its people is condemned in the strongest terms and without any doubt,” before pointing out that “everyone can act as a mediator “must serve.” End the conflict and take measures to protect civilians, especially children“, collects EFE.
— The Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia rejected this Saturday Israel’s “attempts to forcibly relocate” the population of Gazal. In doing so, it joins Egypt, which has also categorically rejected any attempt by the Israeli government to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Portal reports.
For now, Israeli forces have ordered the evacuation of the northern Gaza Strip and subjected the enclave to heavy daily bombings. According to Israel, almost 700,000 people have left their homes and moved south.
—Al-Qasam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida announced Friday the release of two American hostages for “humanitarian reasons.”, after mediation by Qatar. Abu Obeida, whose group is the armed wing of Hamas, said on his Telegram account that the two abductees were mother and daughter.
Currently, Israeli authorities have not officially confirmed the release of the two kidnapped women, whose identities the Al-Qasam Brigades did not identify.
However, a Hamas source told EFE that the hostages were Judith and Natalie Raanan from Evanston, on the outskirts of Chicago. He explained that they had coordinated with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to hand over the two hostages to the organization and ensured that both reached Israeli soil.
—The former president of Uruguay (2010-2015) José Mujica released a video in which he asked Hamas to release the hostages in Latin America. “I would like to believe in God, but I ask those who believe in a divine form, and in this case the Palestinians who have a handful of Latin American hostages in Gaza, to let them live,” said the leader of the Uruguayan left in the news published this Thursday and quoted by Infobae.
Mujica had already pointed out Hamas’ attack on Israel in a press conference on Tuesday the 10th. He then described the conflict as “barbarism” and “disgrace” and defined it as a “failure of humanity”, according to his statements recorded in La Diaria.