Between Israel and Hamas, the war on the battlefield is joined by a verbal war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Palestinian militiamen directly and calls on them to raise the white flag. “It's over. “Don’t die for Sinwar (the leader of Hamas, editor’s note), but surrender now,” he said in a video message, highlighting how “in the last few days, dozens of Hamas terrorists have surrendered to our heroic warriors .” ” of Israeli troops. However, the organization that governs the Gaza Strip still holds over 100 hostages in its hands and warns “Netanyahu, Gallant and the other members of the Israeli war cabinet” that no prisoner will be released “without negotiations.”
Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone for 50 minutes with Russian President Vladimir Putin about international talks to resolve the conflict. A phone call in which the Israeli head of state expresses “decisive criticism” of cooperation between Russia and Iran. Netanyahu tells Moscow that in his opinion any other country that had suffered a terrorist attack like Hamas on October 7 would have responded with at least the same severity as Israel did, and calls on Putin to put pressure on the Red Cross to ensure visits to the remaining hostages and to deliver them medicine. Qatar is also continuing its efforts for a new ceasefire, but Doha stresses that options have “reduced” following the resumption of hostilities. “But we will not give up,” says Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.
From the United States comes the voice of Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The head of American diplomacy reiterates that Israel will decide on the end of the war, but at the same time the Jewish state must reduce civilian casualties in Gaza to a minimum. The United Nations has raised the alarm about the situation in the Gaza Strip through the head of the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. “The situation has reached catastrophic proportions,” says Philippe Lazzarini, calling on everyone to work to end the “hell on earth” in the Gaza Strip, where, according to the deputy director of the United Nations World Food Program (According to WFP and Carl Skau, “hunger” half the population. An apocalyptic scenario in which – according to the WHO – the impact on the health of the civilian population is also “catastrophic” and the health system in the Gaza Strip is reduced to a third of its capacity. According to the latest data from the Hamas-controlled According to the Gaza Strip's Health Ministry, 18,000 people have died and around 50,000 have been injured since hostilities began.