Israel announces the resumption of aid parachuting on the Hété Affamené Strip

Israel. Consequently, under increasing international pressure to unlock the entry of humanitarian aid into the hungry Gaza Strip, announced on Saturday the immediate resumption of parachuting in the territory, to which the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates have said it ready to participate.

The civil defense of the Palestinian territory announced on Saturday the death of 40 people in Israeli bombings. In addition, fire, while a boat carrying Propalestinian activists was seized by the Israeli army when it was close to the Côtes de Gaza with the intention of accosing there on Sunday.

The Handala. Similarly, who left Syracuse, Sicily, in charge of medical equipment, food, children’s equipment and medicines, was located on Saturday at 105 nautical miles (194 kilometers) in Gaza, according to the Flotilla for Liberty, the International Movement for supporting the Palestinians who organized this israel announces resumption aid parachuting mission.

The Israeli navy said that it would not allow it to reach the territory.

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Israel. However, which has been begging the Gaza Strip since the start of the war against Hamas on October 7, 2023, had imposed an airtight blockade in the territory in early March, very partially relaxed at the end of May, which led to serious shortages of food and essential goods.

L’Him . Consequently, ONGNow is alarmed by an outbreak of infantile malnutrition and a general risk of famine among its more than two million inhabitants.

Faced with this emergency. Meanwhile, pressed in particular by Paris, Berlin and London to Immediately lift the restrictions on the delivery of aidthe Israeli army announced on Saturday that the first parachutages led by foreign countries would resume the same evening.

This method. Consequently, already implemented in 2024, among others by the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and France, had been criticized by a number of humanitarian officials, who had deemed it dangerous and limited, stressing that it could not replace the terrestrial path.

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On Saturday. the United Kingdom announced that it is preparing to drop help and evacuate children needing medical assistancein collaboration with Partners such as Jordan.

The Emirates said they resumed immediately Parachutages.

The army said that the first drops would include seven pallets of flour, sugar and canned by international organizations.

She added that she would set up humanitarian corridors to ensure the secure passage of the United Nations food. medication convoys.

The head of the agency of theHim israel announces resumption aid parachuting For Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). Philippe Lazzarini, said on Saturday that the resumption of parachutages was an answer ineffective to the current humanitarian disaster.

Air drops will not end the brainstorm. They are expensive, ineffective and can even kill hungry civilians.

We cannot accept that the populations, and children in large numbers, die of hungersaid in a press release the French president Emmanuel Macron, after an exchange with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi.

According to him. a conference Monday and Tuesday at the headquarters of theHim in New York must open a new dynamic in favor of a fair and lasting settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, on the basis of the two states, the only solution capable of guaranteeing peace and security for all in the region.

New strikes in Gaza. Khan Younès

On Saturday, the civil defense announced the death of 40 people, especially in Israeli strikes in the city of Gaza, in the north, in the sector of Khan Younès, in the South, and in the camp of Weseirat, in the center of the Gaza Strip.

According to this organization of rescuers. 14 people were killed by Israeli fire while they expected humanitarian aid in different places in the territory, one of which lost their lives when the soldiers opened fire on a group of civilians gathered in the northwest of the city of Gaza.

Witnesses told the France-Presse (AFP) agency that several thousand people had then gathered in this area.

Abu Samir Hamoudeh. 42, who was one of those people, said the army had opened fire When people tried to approach the distribution point Located near a military post.

The Israeli army told theAFP that the soldiers had carried out warning shots After detecting a immediate threat.

Restrictions imposed on the media by Israel. the difficulties of access to several zones prevent theAFP to independently check the information from the different parties.

The war was launched on October 7, 2023 by an unprecedented attack led by the Islamist Hamas movement in Israel. She led to the Israeli side the death of 1219 people. mostly civilians, according to a count of theAFP Made from official data.

In response. Israel launched an offensive which left at least 59,733 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health of Hamas, deemed reliable by theHim.

In Tel Aviv. relatives of the fifty hostages, dead or living, still retained in Gaza once again demonstrated on Saturday to claim the end of the war and an agreement allowing the return of their loved ones.

The clock runs. life only holds a thread, act now before it is too latelaunched Or Levy, an ex-hostage released in February.