The Israeli army has announced that it has extended its offensive to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday 1is July. The Red Cross said “Deeply alarmed” of this intensification of military operations of the Hebrew State. Also, new bombings and shots killed 20 people according to the civil defense of Gaza, while the previous balance sheet was 17 dead, after twenty -one months of war between the Israeli army and Hamas.
According to the first aid organization, six people were notably killed in the center of the enclave while they were waiting to receive humanitarian aid. Questioned by the France-Presse (AFP) agency, the Israeli army replied that it had pulled to remove suspicious individuals and not be aware of the injured people as a result of these fire.
The Army of the Hebrew State also communicated to having dismantled near Khan Younès, in the south of the coastal strip, approximately 3 kilometers of tunnels used according to her by Hamas fighters. Given the restrictions imposed on the media in the Gaza Strip and the difficulties of access to the field, AFP is not able to independently check the balance sheets and the affirmations of the various parties.
NGO call on the distribution of humanitarian aid
In a press release, 169 international NGOs called for an end to the new aid distribution system, managed since the end of May by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a company with opaque funding supported by Israel and the United States.
In search of food, thousands of people are desperately trying to approach one of the four food distribution centers opened by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, with the support of Israel and the United States, in the Palestinian enclave since the end of May. And almost every day, Gazaouis lose life there. In less than a month, 19 events involving Israeli army fire has been identified, provoking the death of 549 Palestinians and injuring 4,000 others, according to a balance sheet established on June 24 by the Ministry of Health of Hamas and corroborated by the United Nations.
International NGOs behind the press release also question GHF’s ​​processes and neutrality and claim a return to the mechanism that prevailed until March, when humanitarian aid was coordinated by various UN NGOs and agencies. Among the signatories of the press release are NGOs from Europe, the United States and Israel active in the fields of medical or food aid, development or protection of human rights. NGOs called for “Lifting of the blockade imposed by the Israeli government on aid and commercial goods”.
Meeting between Benyamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump to come
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu confirmed on Tuesday that he will go to Washington next week. He will meet, for the third time since his inauguration, the American president, Donald Trump, who recently urged Israel to “Conclude an agreement in Gaza” and said «Espér[er] that[un cessez-le-feu] will occur (…) in the course of next week “.
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“Taking advantage of success is just as important as you get it”said the Israeli Prime Minister when the speed with which the “twelve day war” ended between Israel and Iran rekindled the hope of a fighting of the fighting in Gaza.
“We are willing to accept any proposal if it leads to the end of the war, to a permanent ceasefire and to the total withdrawal of the occupation forces of the Gaza Strip”told AFP a spokesman for Hamas, Taher al-Nounou, adding that there had been “No breakthrough so far”.
The war, triggered by an attack in Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, caused the death, on the Israeli side, of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count made from official data, and of the 251 people kidnapped that day, 49 are still hostages in Gaza, 27 of which were declared dead by the Israeli army. More than 56,640 Palestinians, mainly civilians, were killed by the Israeli army, according to data from the Ministry of Health of Gaza, deemed reliable by the UN.
