Bloody Thursday is the start of a Friday without a break. On the seventh day of the ceasefire, US Secretary of State Blinken also appeared to give up: “Ensure the safety of the Palestinian civilian population once the war has resumed,” said the head of US diplomacy, resigned to the imminent return to arms, as two There were attacks on Israeli civilians in Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley. “It is another example of the threat that Hamas poses,” said American National Security Council spokesman John Kirby: “We want the ceasefire to be extended until the eighth, ninth day, but – he added and deleted all hope out – it. “It is not the time for a permanent ceasefire.”
For the Israeli government, the attack by two Hamas extremists in Jerusalem represents a violation of the ceasefire. For Palestinian fundamentalists, the ceasefire was interrupted by Israel with daily raids and killings in the West Bank. The exchange of accusations foreshadows the worst. “We swore, I swore myself, to eliminate Hamas. “Nothing will stop us,” said Benjamin Netanyahu at the end of the conversation with the American Secretary of State. “Our meeting – he repeated – took place a few hours after the murder of Israelis by Hamas assassins here in Jerusalem.” That is why “we will continue this war,” said the prime minister, “until we achieve our goals.”
The warring parties had agreed to extend the ceasefire for a seventh day, while mediators continued talks on extending the ceasefire. But yesterday, Hamas’ armed wing claimed responsibility for the deadly shooting in Jerusalem, which Israel described as a “real war.” Shortly after 7 a.m., at the crowded bus stop in the Orthodox neighborhood on the outskirts of the city, two men jumped out of a car and fired wildly, wounding about 10 people, three of whom died shortly afterwards. The man killed in the attack was Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, who served as a judge at the Ashdod Rabbinical Court. One of the two women shot dead was Chana Ifergan from Beit Shemesh. The other was named Livia Dickman and lived in Har Nof. The two terrorists lived in East Jerusalem and operated with an M16 rifle and a pistol. As they tried to get back into the car to escape, two armed civilians intervened and killed them before they could close the doors. One of the attackers spent ten years in prison for terrorist crimes. Authorities have announced that their homes and those of their families will be sealed and demolished. There was a new attack in the West Bank in which a Palestinian minor drove a car through an Israeli checkpoint in the Beqaot area. The boy was killed shortly afterwards while the injured are in a serious condition. Also in the morning, another incident caused a stir. In Lod, a city between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, a young pregnant Bedouin woman was repeatedly stabbed and killed as part of a family conflict by a man who later turned out to be her brother, assisted by her father.
Since the start of the war, 227 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied territories. Perhaps the arrival of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan could postpone the restart of the war. He will travel to Israel at the invitation of the survivors and victims of the October 7 Hamas attacks. Khan will also visit Ramallah in the West Bank to meet with Palestinian Authority leaders. Unlike Palestine, Jerusalem does not join the International Court of Justice. However, crimes committed by Palestinians outside their territory and those committed by other countries within the recognized borders of Palestine are subject to investigation by the court, which has expressed its intention to verify whether in addition to the crimes Hamas also committed abuses by Israeli forces in Gaza. While in Jerusalem this morning, police forces are already deployed in the middle of the night to prevent young Palestinians and adults from accessing the Temple Mount, where prayer has only been allowed to older Muslims for seven Fridays.