Israel confirms a fourhour bombing pause, but again rules out a ceasefire
This Thursday (9) Israel announced that it would begin advance notice daily interruptions in bombing to the Gaza Strip and ruled out the possibility of such Stop fire.
The United States government said on Thursday (9) that Israel had agreed to pause military operations for four hours a day to allow the movement of civilians and entry humanitarian aid in northern Gaza. According to the announcement, the population will be informed of the times for these breaks three hours in advance.
The Israel Defense Forces spokesman emphasized that Israel had not agreed to this Stop fire and that it will continue to allow for short, localized tactical pauses.
In an exclusive interview with correspondent Raquel Krahenbuhl, the spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council explained that the agreement formalized the process already carried out by Israel with the establishment of fourhour breaks and advance warning to residents, and reiterated that the United States does not currently support either Armistice.
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“Today’s announcement is a significant step forward and we believe it is the right step. We will continue to talk to Israel about these breaks,” says John Kirby.
This Thursday (9), the National newspaper was located on Israel’s border with Egypt, where food, water and medicine are distributed to Palestinians in Gaza. Trucks carrying humanitarian aid arrive in the Gaza Strip from Egypt. Since they were able to enter the Gaza Strip in the middle of the war, there have been 700 trucks. Before the war there were 500 trucks per day.
This aid is verified by the Israeli army and then sent back to Egypt. And then the trucks will enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing, an Israeli army spokesman said. The trucks transport essential goods for the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
One of the main problems in Gaza is access to water. A truck brings water to a population that has so many basic needs.
Israeli army attacks on Gaza by land and air continued during the night. According to the Israeli government, Ibrahim AbuMaghsib, head of Hamas’ antitank missile unit, was killed in an airstrike.
The army released images of a Hamas tunnel that the Israel Defense Forces said was near a school in Gaza.
A large explosion occurred at AlShifa Hospital in Gaza City. The Israeli army said the target was a nearby Hamas military compound. According to the army, 50 terrorists died.
The UN humanitarian chief said the conflict was a fire that could engulf the region, adding:
“The United Nations cannot be part of a unilateral proposal that pushes hundreds of thousands of desperate civilians in Gaza into socalled safe zones,” said Martin Griffiths.
Thousands of Palestinians have not yet left the north of the country.
“We are persistent. Whatever they do to us, we will not leave Al Shifa. They cut off water, electricity and food, but we are stubborn. We can only eat cookies and nuts, we can eat anything,” says a woman who had to leave the house.
Thousands continue to move south in search of a safer place, although there are those too Bombings.
According to the Health Ministry of the Palestinian Authority, led by Fatah, a rival party to Hamas, 18 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank Palestinian territory by Israeli forces in an incursion into the Jenin refugee camp. Israel stated that the operation was to combat terrorism.
This Thursday (9), Islamic Jihad, another terrorist group operating in the Gaza Strip, announced that it would release two hostages a woman and a boy. The boy would be Yagil, 12 years old. His story became internationally known through the animated film his mother made, which recounted the kidnapping of her two children.
“They are not bargaining chips, they are children. Children, no matter where in the world, should not be part of this. Not in Gaza, not in Israel, not in Ukraine, not anywhere in the world,” says Yagil’s mother Jacob.