“The security firm – by a majority vote – adopted five principles to conclude war: the disarmament of Hamas; the return of all the hostages – living and dead -; the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip; Israeli security control in the Gaza Strip; the establishment of an alternative civil administration which is neither Hamas nor Palestinian authority”, adds the text.
Currently, the Israeli army occupies or operates on the ground in nearly 75 % of the Gaza Strip, mainly since its permanent positions in the territory along the border. She bombes wherever she deems it necessary.
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“Not a health walk”
“Netanyahu’s plans […] Confirm without the shadow of a doubt his desire to get rid of the hostages and to sacrifice them in the pursuit of his personal interests and his extremist ideological agenda, “said Hamas on Thursday, which still holds 49 hostages, 27 of which are presumed dead.
Denouncing “a blatant turnaround of the negotiation process […] Despite the proximity of a final agreement “, Hamas ensures that” all climbing […] Will not be a health walk and will have a high and painful cost “for Israel.
The Israeli press has announced for several days a plan aimed at “conquering the entire Gaza Strip, including the City of Gaza and the refugee camps” located in the center of the territory, an operation of several months which will require a massive mobilization of reservists.
While the press was also echoed with the reserves of the chief of staff, or even of his opposition to this alleged plan, the person concerned for the first time expressed publicly Thursday: “We will continue to express our position without fear, pragmatic, independent and professional,” commented Lieutenant-General Eyal Zamir. And to warn: “We will no longer limit our answer. We will eliminate threats to their early stage”.
According to the UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office (OCHA), 86.3 % of the territory is militarized by Israel and subject to evacuation orders. The unpacked areas are also the most populated: the cities of Khan Younès and Gaza, the Deir-el-Balah refugee camps, in the center of the territory.
After 22 months of a devastating war, launched on October 7, 2023 by the bloody attack of Hamas in Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, the enclave, besieged, is threatened with a “widespread famine”, according to the UN, and totally dependent on humanitarian aid, distributed in largely insufficient quantities according to the humanitarian workers.
Some 2.4 million Palestinians live on a daily basis under the bombs in this narrow territory that runs along the Mediterranean. Israeli reprisals have already left 61,258 dead there, mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health of Hamas, deemed reliable by the UN.
On the Israeli side, the attack on Hamas resulted in the death of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count made from official data.
Israel had already occupied Gaza in 1967 and established a set of 21 Israeli colonies, dismantled in 2005 with the unilateral withdrawal decided by the then Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon.
Netanyahu gives the green light to occupy the entire Gaza strip
99 Hunger dead
Israeli opinion is always alarmed by the fate of hostages still retained in Gaza. The broadcast by Hamas and Islamic jihad of propaganda videos showing two of them, very weakened and weight loss, aroused anger and emotion in Israel, but also abroad.
New interior front for Netanyahu: Orthodox Jews called for mobilization against the obligation of military conscription, which most of them escape for the moment, and which the State intends to impose on them. Several hundred of them demonstrated Thursday in Jerusalem.
In Gaza, civil defense reported at least 35 people killed by Israeli strikes or fire.
The World Health Organization has announced that 99 people, including 29 children under the age of five, have died of malnutrition since the start of the year, “figures probably underestimated,” said agency director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Gaza, the emergency first
