AGI – An “unprecedented” bombing by Israeli planes and warships has hit Gaza in recent hours. The explosions killed and injured dozens of citizens while cutting off communications and internet services from the Strip. The heads of 18 major UN organizations, including Unicef, WFP and WHO, have joined forces to create a “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza.
This is an unusual joint statement, in which he expressed outrage at the dramatic number of civilian casualties in the war between Hamas and Israel. “For almost a month, the world has been watching the development of the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories with dismay and horror at the growing number of lives lost and torn apart,” the UN chiefs described the tragic record of both parties after Hamas, according to the Israeli According to authorities, there was a cross-border attack from Gaza to Israel on October 7, which claimed around 1,400 lives, mostly civilians.
Israel responded with relentless air and artillery attacks that killed at least 9,770 peopleAccording to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza, the majority of those killed were civilians. In Gaza we read in the United Nations statement: “An entire population is under siege and attack, denied access to the necessities of life, and their homes, shelters, hospitals and places of worship are bombed. This is unacceptable.”
The appeal calls on Hamas to release the more than 240 hostages which he recorded during the attack, and both sides are called upon to adhere to their obligations under international law even in war. In Gaza, the heads of the UN agencies emphasized that more food, water, medicine and fuel must be imported to help the besieged population. “30 days have passed. Enough is enough, this must stop now,” the joint statement concludes.
The US Navy is stationing a submarine in the region
The The United States is deployed A Submarine armed with Tomahawk missiles In the middle east. CentCom, the US Central Command, announced this in a post on Wide.
The Ohio-class submarine, CentCom said, had entered its area of responsibility. A photo released with the announcement appears to show the submarine in the Suez Canal, northeast of Cairo. The post does not name the submarine, but the US Navy has four Ohio-class submarines (SSGN) that have been converted from ballistic missiles to nuclear warheads.
IDF captures Hamas outpost in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces They announced that they had done it took control of a Hamas outpost in Gaza during last night’s fighting. In a post on the operation, “numerous terrorists were eliminated.”
Hamas calls for international investigation
Meanwhile, Hamas has called on United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to do so Form an international committee to visit hospitals in Gaza and reject the Israeli army’s claims Accordingly, he attacked the medical centers because Hamas fighters were stationed there.
This is reported by the Washington Post, citing a statement from Hamas. The movement that launched the attack on Israel claims that the Israeli Defense Forces are attempting to “justify their ongoing crimes against civilians and against the wounded and patients in Gaza hospitals.” IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari accused Hamas of staging attacks from hospitals and building military infrastructure in surrounding areas to use them as shields. At least 15 people were killed in an Israeli attack near a hospital in Gaza a few days ago.
Abu Mazen met with Blinken
Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and said he was ready to take back control of Gaza if there was a global political solution. Blinken then traveled to Ankara, while CIA chief William Burns arrived in Israel and will hold talks with leaders and officials.
The bombs after the power outage
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology confirmed that the Israelis have cut international lines for the third time, cutting off all communications and internet services from the Gaza Strip. Shortly after the blackout, the Israeli army invaded launched a heavy bombardment on Gaza City and other nearby areas in the north of the territory. The explosions were so powerful that they could be heard in Rafah, in the far south of the Palestinian territory.
Dozens of citizens were killed and injured after Israeli aircraft bombed many residential buildings west of Deir al-Balah and in Al-Zaytoun, Al-Nasr, Sheikh Radwan, Al-Bureij Camp, Al-Fakhoura neighborhoods in Jabalia. Al-Nuseirat, Al-Bureij camp, Al-Shujaiyah district, Beit Lahia and Al-Nasr district.
More than 9,700 people have died and 24,800 have been injured in the enclave by Israeli bombings since the war with Hamas began, it said, while another 144 were killed in the West Bank during the same period, the United Nations reports.
There are approximately 1.5 million displaced people from Gaza
Around 1.5 million Palestinians are displaced in the Gaza Stripsays a document from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, quoted by the British newspaper The Guardian. The report also states that some 710,275 Gazans have been accommodated in 149 facilities run by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, another 122,000 are accommodated in hospitals, churches and public buildings, 109,755 are accommodated in 89 schools that do not attend who are affiliated with UNRWA, have found shelter and the rest of the families of relatives or acquaintances live there.
Abu Mazen to Blinken: “Genocide in Gaza. Ready to return to Gaza.”
Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen, speaking to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, condemned “the genocide in the Gaza Strip by Israel, which promised to ‘annihilate’ Hamas and has since then bombed the enclave incessantly,” suffering the bloody attack on October 7.
“Once again we meet in the worst situation: I have no words to describe the genocidal war and destruction suffered by our Palestinian people in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli military apparatus, without any respect for the principles of law,” he said. said the Palestinian president. The meeting between the two, which was not announced by US diplomacy, lasted an hour, the Portal agency reported.
“The Gaza Strip is an integral part of the State of Palestine. We will assume all our responsibilities as part of a comprehensive political solution for the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip,” Abu Mazen said.
Blinken told Congress on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority should “at some point” regain control of the Gaza Strip from Hamas and that international third parties could potentially play an interim role. Abu Mazen, whose authority was ousted from Gaza by Hamas in 2007, lives in Ramallah and rules only in the West Bank. The last Palestinian parliamentary elections were held in 2006 and were won by Hamas. Despite this victory, the Islamic movement was unable to exert any real power and violently seized control of the Gaza Strip the following year.
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