Israel continues to behead Hamas. The army and internal intelligence service Shin Bet announced that the commander of Hamas's Nuseirat battalion, Ismail Siraj, and his deputy Ahmed Wahaba, responsible for the massacres at Beeri Kibbutz and other locations, were killed in an airstrike in Gaza on Saturday night. But not only. The IDF also claimed to have now dismantled Hamas' entire military network in northern Gaza. The news comes as the spotlight turns north, where “the first reaction” to the killing of Hamas number two, Saleh al-Arouri, arrived in Beirut: dozens of rockets rained down from Lebanon, at least 62 from Hezbollah, but also fired by Hezbollah The Sunni group Jama'a Islamiya, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, targeted the town of Kiryat Shmona. There were no casualties and the Israeli response was immediate: warplanes attacked a number of Hezbollah sites in the Aita al-Sha'ab, Yaron and Ramya areas.
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ANSA agency Doctors Without Borders evacuates staff from Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza – Middle East – Ansa.it Following the order of the Israeli Defense Forces to distribute leaflets in the neighborhoods (ANSA)
Preventing the conflict from spreading is one of the main goals of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's mission to the region, who began his trip to Turkey, meeting first with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan and then with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and flew along for talks Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Greece. The State Department said Blinken “emphasized the need to prevent the conflict from escalating” during talks with Erdogan that lasted more than an hour. He stressed the need to “work toward a more comprehensive and lasting peace in the region that ensures Israel's security and advances the creation of a Palestinian state.” A Turkish diplomatic source said Foreign Minister Fidan reiterated to Blinken the need for an “immediate ceasefire” to ensure a smooth delivery of aid. “We want to prevent the conflict from spreading” and “we ensure that there is no escalation between Israel and Lebanon,” Blinken himself said from Greece, “we are examining diplomatic channels to try to reduce these tensions.” Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh addressed him in a video message, calling on him to use his mission in the region to “stop aggression against the Palestinians” and ensure that “the occupation of the Palestinian territories ends.” He added that US support for the Israeli operation in Gaza had “caused unprecedented massacres and war crimes against us.” After Istanbul and Greece, the US Secretary of State will be in Israel, Jordan, the West Bank, Qatar. Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, also echoes Blinken's appeal and hopes that Lebanon is not “involved in a regional conflict.” “It is a regional conflict,” he said in a conversation with his Lebanese counterpart in Beirut . “I send the same message to Israel: no one will emerge victorious from a regional conflict. The only way is the creation of a Palestinian state,” the only “horizon of hope” for the Palestinians. A hope that currently seems distant: almost 90% of the Gaza Strip's 2.4 million residents have been “forcibly displaced and are left with nothing,” said UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, who face hundreds of thousands of severe problems due to lack Food, water, medical supplies and fuel. According to UNRWA, 1.9 million Palestinians have been displaced across the Gaza Strip, of whom 1.88 million have found refuge in and around the organization's 155 facilities. Palestinian casualties amounted to 22,722 dead and 58,166 wounded. A dramatic situation that forced Doctors Without Borders to evacuate its staff from Al-Aqsa Hospital after days of fighting and the evacuation order from the Israeli Defense Forces: “With a heavy burden on our hearts, we are forced to evacuate,” Carolina Lopez, the Médecins Sans Frontières emergency coordinator at the hospital announced this. What's more, the bombing doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon: “The war must not end until all objectives are achieved,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on a day when thousands took to the streets to protest against his line and demand early elections. The families of the hostages are on the front lines: “It has been three months since Nimrod was kidnapped and it is like a long and tiring day that never ends,” cried Rumi Cohen, twin of Nimrod, who was kidnapped in Gaza.
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