Diplomatic efforts to reach a new ceasefire between Israel and Hamas are increasing.
L'Israeli army announced this Friday that she was leaving expand its land offensive in the center of the Gaza Strip, while the UN Security Council is expected to vote today on a resolution aimed at increasing humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians.
THE diplomatic efforts are multiplying in an attempt to secure a new ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, while the Israeli army systematically continues its operation the “extermination” of the Islamist group responsible for the deadly attack on October 7th in southern Israel.
IDF ordered this Friday the residents of Al Boureij, in central Gaza, to do so Immediately move southwhich expresses its intention to open a new front in this sector, after devastating the north of the enclave and carrying out incursions in the Khan Younès sector further south since the beginning of the month.
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THE increasing number of deaths – 20,057, including many children and women, according to the latest Gaza Health Ministry report – and the dramatic humanitarian situation in the enclave should convince people 15 members of the UN Security Council vote on a resolution called for aid deliveries to be made easier, even as the vote scheduled for Thursday was postponed to Friday.
The United States, which vetoed an earlier draft resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire, said it was ready to support the text, which calls on Israel and Hamas to use “all available routes” to deliver humanitarian aid to approve.
In this context, Israel didn't show up There are no signs of wanting to reduce its offenseincreasing airstrikes and artillery fire on Hamas militant positions across the Gaza Strip.
140 soldiers killed
The Israeli army announced this regret the numerous civilian losses, while accusing Hamas of using Gaza's population as human shields, a charge rejected by the Palestinian group. The Israeli authorities, for their part, recognized this dead from 140 soldiers since the ground offensive in Gaza began on October 20th.
Fighting was reported on Friday on the outskirts of Al Boureij, a town built on the site of a 1948 refugee camp, as well as heavy bombardment in the town and the Djabalia refugee camp north of the enclave, where Israeli troops are trying to preempt .
Further south, where the vast majority of Gazans are now refugees in absolutely precarious conditions, airstrikes have been carried out on Khan Younes and Rafah on the border with Egypt.
“Complete end to aggression”
Egyptian authorities, who are leading Israel-Hamas' mediation efforts with Qatar, hosted the Palestinian group's exiled leader Ismaïl Haniyeh for two days, but that visit did not end no concrete progressHamas and Islamic Jihad In the evening, he rejected the idea of releasing hostages again in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, except in cases of “complete cessation of aggression“Israeli.
For his part, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said that negotiations for the release of the hostages were continuing, but refused to provide further details.
More than a hundred hostages were released during a week-long humanitarian ceasefire in late November.