by Davide Frattini
Only two tankers a day, but the ultra-right protests in the government: “The three commanders are leading us in the wrong direction”
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
JERUSALEM – Two tankers a day, 60,000 liters of diesel compared to the 7 million a week arriving in Gaza. A grim drop that the Israeli government agreed to under pressure from the Americans and knowing that the amount of diesel is the minimum necessary to keep the wastewater treatment system functioning and prevent the spread of disease in the south of the sand corridor while one and a half million displaced people 2.2 million inhabitants have gathered, the United Nations warns of impending famine.
But for the messianic right-wing extremist, which governs with Benjamin Netanyahu but was ousted from the selected war council, it is as if this straw has broken the dam: “The trio at the top is steering the nation in the wrong direction.” “If the “If hostages cannot receive a visit from the International Red Cross, it is absurd to give humanitarian gifts to the enemies,” explains Itamar Ben-Gvir, Minister of National Security, previously convicted of supporting a Jewish terrorist organization.
“This decision shows weakness and allows Yahia Sinwar to feel comfortable in his air-conditioned bunker,” affirms Bezalel Smotrich, whom Bibi has placed in the finance sector. Above all, the two settler leaders demand to take part in the meetings that decide the conflict and to grant the Palestinian Authority the treatment reserved for Gaza: over 12,000 dead, almost half of the houses made uninhabitable by the bombings.
Surely Josep Borrell, the head of European diplomacy, and Joe Biden, the American president and fundamental ally of Israel in these 42 days of fighting, are listening with concern to calls to eliminate President Abu Mazen as if he were Sinwar, thought the fundamentalist leader Zu den Planners of the massacre included 1,200 Israelis who were massacred and over 240 kidnapped in the 363 square kilometers that Hamas seized with weapons from the Raìs of Ramallah in 2007. The army entered Jenin yesterday and clashes lasted all morning. Five Palestinians – allegedly Hamas militants – died in the north West Bank city and two in Hebron. These operations help in part to keep Abu Mazen in control. At the same time, Borrell, who is visiting here, asks Netanyahu to “stop the settler violence.”
Yoav Gallant, the defense minister, promises residents of the kibbutzim and towns destroyed on October 7 that some of them will be able to return to their homes in a few months. A diplomatic source tells the Times of Israel digital newspaper that the prime minister “has not yet closed the door on a return of Gaza under a fully reformed Palestinian Authority” and that he is already discussing it with the White House, according to the Post should be handled. According to the Israelis, wartime reconstruction will take 5 years.
Troops have stepped up bombardment of Khan Yunis and Rafah, dropping leaflets and spreading messages in recent days urging civilians to leave some areas in the south. Tsahal showed dozens of rockets found at an Islamic Jihad outpost, yesterday the launches again reached Tel Aviv. The new phase of the Israeli invasion announced by Gallant continues in part like the old one: further operations around and inside the Al-Shifa hospital, which the intelligence considers to be part of the fundamentalists’ headquarters – they accuse the soldiers of “130 corpses “stolen” – and which the Palestinian director now calls “a prison”.
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November 17, 2023 (modified November 17, 2023 | 10:10 p.m.)
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