Israel has killed at least 103 people in Gaza on Thursday, according to sources from Palestinian Civil Defense services, in different air attacks in the north and south of the occupied Palestinian territory. The town with more victims is Jan Yunis, where at least 59 people have lost their lives. That city located in the southern half of the strip is being the target of successive bombings in recent days, which have been intensified since last Tuesday. That same day, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, began in Saudi Arabia a tour of the Middle East that has excluded Israel and concludes this Thursday in United Arab Emirates.
Among the victims of this morning and those registered on Wednesday, more than 80, including 22 children, Israeli air attacks – effect even with powerful antibunker bombs – have killed about 200 people in just 48 hours.
Israeli bombs have reached housing buildings, at least two hospitals and plagued areas of tents where many Gazati families whose houses have been destroyed for 19 months of attacks have been reached last Tuesday. Civil objectives that explain that most bodies wrapped in white shrouds that show the images that arrive from Gaza are women and children. These two categories constitute the bulk of the 52,900 dead counted from the beginning of the Israeli offensive by the health authorities of the Strip.
The projectiles have also folded again on this day on the Yabalia refugee camp, in the north of the Palestinian enclave, where 13 of the hundred length of victims have died that has counted so far the Civil Defense of Gaza.
One of the attacks last night has also left the European Hospital of Jan Yunis, bombarded for the second time in just 24 hours, the Ministry of Health of Gaza has reported.
After a first attack on Tuesday, the Israeli army said that, in the subsoil of the hospital, the new leader of Hamas was hid in the strip, Mohamed Sinwar, younger brother of Yahia Sinwar, the leader of the movement that died in an Israeli attack in the southern Rafah, last October. The European hospital was the only one who still paid medical attention to the patients with the strip cancer, including oncological pediatric patients, after the Israeli forces dynamited the Turkish-Palestinian friendship hospital on March 21.
Meanwhile, although the United States and Arab mediators like Qatar – the country where Trump stressed on Wednesday – press Israel and Hamas to reach a new fire, that horizon still seems distant. Last Tuesday, the day after Hamas would release as a “goodwill” gesture to Trump to Edan Alexander, a soldier with dual Israeli and American nationality, the Israeli government announced the sending of a negotiating delegation to Doha to discuss a possible fire.
The Israeli team arrived in the capital of Qatar with a limited mandate, something that the country’s own prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, made it clear in a statement released by his office. The text stressed that negotiations with Hamas “would only pass under fire.”
Before the resurgence of this week’s Israeli offensive, Hamas has denounced this Thursday “a military climb” in Gaza parallel to the negotiations of a new high fire. In a statement, the movement accuses Netanyahu of wanting “a warless war” and being indifferent to the fate that hostages can run.
“At a time when mediators are making intense efforts to re -run the negotiation, the Zionist occupation (as usually referred to Israel) responds to those efforts with military pressure on innocent civilians,” says the statement.
A high -aware Palestinian position of the negotiation that takes place in the Catarí capital has assured Reuters that “so far no progress has been made due to Israel’s insistence to continue the war.”
Netanyahu himself ruled out last Tuesday any possibility that Israel ends the war, even if he was free to 58 Israeli Haynes, mostly corpses, who are still in Gaza. If the group gave those captives, Israel would accept them, Netanyahu said, but “in no way” would stop war, he said, according to statements released by his office. Then he added: “We can accept a stop the fire for some time, but we will go to the end.”
On the 5th, the Israel security cabinet unanimously approved a plan to expand the offensive in Gaza in phases until it will conquer it and retain militarily the territories it takes. “We are occupying Gaza to stay,” said Israeli finance minister, the ultra -rightist Bezalel Smotrich.
The Witkoff plan
The Israeli executive, the most right -wing in the country’s history, insists on negotiating only the delivery of hostages by Hamas in exchange for a 45 -day truce that, in no case, wants to open the door to end its offensive in Gaza or to the withdrawal of its troops, as the Palestinian movement claims.
That proposal – presented to Israel two and a half months ago by Trump’s special envoy for the region, Steve Witkoff – requires Hamas to free 10 living hostages and half of the bodies of kidnapped still in their hands. The Israeli government calculates that 23 hostages in the strip are still alive and the rest are dead.
The so -called “Witkoff Plan” was rejected by Hamas, aware that its only negotiating asset are hostages, a waning asset in the light that the Israeli government does not even maintain its initial speech that the release of the kidnapped is their priority. Israel broke the previous fire on March 18, precisely not to have to go to the second phase of the covenant, which opened the door at the end of the war, but also to the liberation of the hostages.
Before, on the 2 of that month, the Israeli government had decreed a total blockade of the entry of humanitarian aid in the strip-including food and medicines- that has left its population of just over 2.2 million people to the edge of the famine, under the pretext that Hamas diverts humanitarian aid, something that did not offer any proof or has corroborated any international organism or NGO of those who work in Gaza.
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