Hamas blocked the exits of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt for foreigners, people with dual nationality and injured Palestinians: around 700 people who had been waiting to leave Gaza since the early hours of the morning were stopped. And they will be blocked – the militiamen said – until Israel guarantees that the ambulances with the wounded can leave the Gaza Strip. A response to Friday’s attack on the convoy of emergency vehicles in front of the al-Shifa hospital, which the Jewish state, but also the USA, claim had militiamen and weapons on board. In any case, an attack that was “terrible,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres thundered again. Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden has indicated that there is progress in achieving a humanitarian pause in the war in Gaza. He explained this to journalists as he left a trade fair in Delaware. When a reporter asked him the question, the president replied “yes” and made an approving “thumbs up” gesture.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) in Ramallah today: this is the US diplomatic chief’s first trip to the West Bank since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas. A Palestinian official told the Times of Israel. In recent days, Blinken told a congressional hearing: “At some point it would make most sense for an effective and revitalized Palestinian Authority to assume leadership and ultimate responsibility for security in Gaza.” These comments were the first time that The Biden administration publicly expressed its desire for the Palestinian Authority to return to the Gaza Strip after privately raising the idea with regional partners during the Israel-Hamas war.
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ANSA Agency War in the Middle East, the news of the day – News – Ansa.it Hamas: “12 dead in attack on UN school”. “Nighttime attack on children’s hospital in Gaza.” According to the local health department, there are two deaths. According to US sources, Hamas hid its militiamen in the ambulances. The Rafah border crossing will also be opened today for the departure of foreigners and injured people. Israel warns: “If Nasrallah makes a mistake, it will mean the fate of Lebanon”
And as Israeli tanks advance and reach the south of Gaza City, where they are clashing violently with Palestinian militiamen today, the raids also continue. And the number of civilian casualties does not stop, as reported by UNRWA, the UN agency, which confirmed an attack on a school managed by the UN agency where displaced people are taking refuge and where children are also believed to have died. But the school near the Jabalya refugee camp was not the only one: two other schools, including the only Catholic one in the Gaza Strip, were hit by bombs. Hamas reported “dozens of deaths,” while Sister Saleh, the head of the religious institute, revealed that only three boys were on guard at her facility.
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According to the Gaza Ministry of Health report, which speaks of at least 2 deaths, the entrance to the al-Nasser Children’s Hospital in Gaza City was also hit. According to Sister Saleh, the School of the Sisters of the Rosary suffered damage to the large outdoor courtyard and surrounding buildings: it is located in the Tel al-Awa area, the same place where the fighting took place between the Israeli tanks that had now come south of the city and the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. Although the Rafah crossing is closed to the passage of people waiting to leave the Gaza Strip, relief supplies continued to arrive at the crossing today. According to Haaretz, at least 30 trucks: four with medical equipment and medicine and the others with food, water and other humanitarian materials. However, fuel remains a taboo: Israel has confirmed it will not allow entry for fear it could fall into Hamas.
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However, David Satterfield, the US special envoy for the Middle East, hoped that the import of fuel would be allowed “once the fuel already in the strip is exhausted” and counted on “an agreed mechanism”: it is intended only for… in the southern Gaza Strip, not north of the Palestinian enclave. And on the subject of aid, EU sources have said there is a chance of opening the maritime corridor, which was the focus of the latest European summit last week: “The proposal could be accepted by Israel if that is the case “is their control of containers in Cyprus,” a port that would serve as a hub for the operation.
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On the field where Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi held an operational briefing inside the Gaza Strip for the first time today, Israel then denounced that Hamas had fired mortars and anti-tank missiles at Salah al-Din Street, which the Israeli army had blocked had cleared the area to allow the movement of the population from the north (where, according to the US envoy, 400,000 people were still there) to the south of the Gaza Strip between 1 and 4 p.m. “This,” the military spokesman added, “shows once again that Hamas is exploiting the population and preventing them from acting for their own security.” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant went a step further by threatening that Israel “the “I will reach the top of Hamas and eliminate Yihia Sinwar,” the faction’s leader in Gaza. And he called on the Palestinians to cooperate: “If you get there before us, the war will be shortened.”
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Meanwhile, the hunt for Hamas leaders continues: The Israeli Air Force announced that it had hit the home of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’ political office, with a rocket, but who lives with his family in Doha, Qatar . Returning to the story of the attack on the ambulances, Israel reiterated that there were militiamen that Hamas wanted to get out of Gaza. A version confirmed by US sources said that “Hamas tried to get its fighters out of Gaza in ambulances via Rafah, slowing efforts to evacuate foreigners.”
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American and Egyptian officials – according to the same sources – stated that in the list provided by the Palestinian authorities of the seriously injured who had to be released, “a third of the names were of fighters, none of whom were among the 76 wounded Palestinians who were ultimately evacuated.” “. Although the Gaza front remains the main front, tensions are also rising in the north, where clashes on the border with Hezbollah continue, while in the south of the Jewish state a new long-range missile was intercepted towards Eilat, while for the first time in the settlements Sirens wailed from Arava in the Negev Desert: “The Arrow air defense system intercepted the takeoff from the Strip,” the army said. Almost a month after the start of the war, the death toll in Gaza is rising again and is now approaching 10,000: 9,488 victims according to Hamas, which speaks of 3,900 minors and 2,509 women.
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