Israel has definitely unleashed a new invasion by land of Gaza, with more troops that have penetrated the Palestinian territory occupied by the north and the south, within the framework of the operation baptized as Gideon cars, whose beginning had announced on the eve. This operation to take new areas of the enclave has been preceded, as in the previous days, of intense bombings that, since Tuesday, have killed about half a thousand Palestinians. Only in this morning, Israeli attacks have caused death to at least 130 people, according to Palestinian sanitary sources. Meanwhile, members of the delegations of Israel and Hamas in the negotiations that take place since Tuesday in Doha (Qatar) have assured Reuters that there are no progress in conversations to reach a high fire in the strip.
A statement released this Sunday afternoon by the Israeli army confirms that, “during the last day”, troops under the southern command, including both active military and reservists, “they began extensive land operations in the north and south of the Gaza Strip as part of the operation cars of Gideon.”
The text also describes this week’s bloody bombings as “a wave of preliminary attacks” aimed at counteracting the “preparations of the enemy,” Hamas, and supporting the terrestrial operation that has just begun. The Army “will continue to act” against the “terrorist organizations in Gaza” with the aim of defending the “Israeli civilians.”
Sanitary Sources of Gaza had denounced hours before the deaths of other civilians. Only in the attacks in the early morning of this Sunday have died of around 130 people – the majority, women and children – in a new and bloody night of bombing that the strip. In a single attack in the Al Mawasi refugee camp, in the southern half of the invaded Palestinian enclave, dozens of people have died; 34, according to the EFE agency.
With the Israeli tanks already moving in new areas of Gaza, Hamas has affirmed this Sunday that he will only accept a high fire agreement with Israel that includes the end of the war, according to Efe Basem Naim, a member of the political bureau of the Islamist movement: “We are negotiating the end of the war. Nothing more.”
Israel broke unilaterally in March the last high fire, precisely, not to have to negotiate its second phase, which opened the door to that end of the Israeli offensive that Hamas claims and also to the release of the hostages that are still kidnapped in Gaza. Since then, Netanyahu has repeatedly reiterated that Israeli attacks in the strip will only conclude when you get a “total victory” over the Palestinian movement.
Also the Israeli prime minister has referred this Sunday to Doha’s negotiations. He said that the team sent by his country to the Catarí capital “is working to exhaust all possibilities” to achieve a truce and the release of the 58 hostages – mostly corpses – in the hands of Hamas. They are the last of the 251 that this Islamist movement and other Palestinian groups kidnapped on October 7, 2023, during the attacks in which almost 1,200 people died, largely civilians.
In an unprecedented allusion to the conclusion of the offensive, a possibility that until now has rejected flat, Netanyahu has mentioned later “a framework to end the war, which would include the liberation of all hostages, the expulsion of Hamas terrorists and the demilitarization of the strip.”
That allusion of the prime minister has raised an immediate reaction of one of its ultra -right -wing partners of government, Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security. Ben Gvir has rushed to reply that “frame to end war without defeating Hamas will not be fulfilled.”
Actually, in his statements, Israeli Prime Minister has mentioned the plan for which Israel has been advocating for months and that not even his own promoter – the special envoy of Donald Trump to the Middle East, Steven Witkoff – sees already viable. The so -called “Witkoff” Plan collects as a previous condition for Israel to negotiate a high fire fire that Hamas releases half of the hostages still in their possession. However, the definitive end of the Israeli offensive does not foresee. That was the reason why the Islamist movement rejected it.
The bombings of the early morning of this Sunday – from airplanes and drones and also of artillery – have especially hit the most punished towns since last Tuesday Israel intensified the attacks. These have since then killed at least 500 people: Yabalia and Beit Lahia in the north; Deir al Balah in the center, and Jan Yunis and the nearby coastal strip of Al Mawasi, in the south.
The authorities of the Strip reported this Saturday night in a statement that 300,000 people have fled those and other northern towns towards the capital to escape the attacks and following the eviction orders that Israeli troops began to decree on the eve.
The most bloody bombardment of this morning is the one that has killed at least 34 people, according to EFE, in the Al Mawasi camp, which houses hundreds of thousands of displaced in tents. The bombs, which have impacted in tents near the Kuwaiti hospital, have also damaged the center surgery service, which has had to close.
For many of the 19 months that the Israeli military aggression lasts to Gaza, and before Israel broke on March 18 the last high the fire with Hamas, the Israeli army had ordered the population of the strip to go to the area of Al Mawasi, which defined as “humanitarian”. This did not prevent it from bombarding it on successive occasions. Israeli troops no longer mention that alleged condition of safe place of that narrow coastal strip. Bombings such as the last night confirm the belief of many Gazatis that there is no place in the enclave where they can be safe.
This Sunday morning, Israel has also attacked another Gaza Hospital, has denounced the Ministry of Health of the Territory: the Indonesian, in Beit Lahia. Its facilities have been besieged with drones and shootings “against everything that moves,” said its director, Marwan al Sultan. This sanitary has assured that these unmanned aerial devices took the intensive care unit of the center as white.
Hours later, the Ministry of Health of the Government of Hamas in Gaza has announced the closure of that hospital, the last one that was still in service in the north of the strip. Videos disseminated by Palestinian sources showed the difficult evacuation of bedridden patients while a shower of shots is heard.
When Israel still does not allow the free entry of international media in Gaza, Palestinas Fuentes have reported that among the hundred dead in the bombings of this morning, there are at least five local journalists,
The Gaza government press office denounced in its statement this Saturday night that Israel has turned the north of the territory into an “open and systematic massacres zone” that are directed against “everything that moves” “people, vehicles and rescue equipment.” The text assured that Israeli drones burned hundreds of displaced stores in the Yabalia refugee field, in Beit Lahia and in other areas of Gaza, “in the midst of a disturbing international silence and complicity in fact in the ongoing genocide.”
The total number of victims of Israeli attacks since its inception, in October 2023, has exceeded 53,300 this week, according to the Ministry of Health of the Strip. Most women and children.
With the negotiations for a seemingly stagnant fire, the population of Gaza faces the new exhaust and hungry Israeli military invasion. On March 2, Israel imposed a total blockade of the entry of humanitarian aid, including food, fuel and medicines, which is pushing the Gazati towards malnutrition and hunger and their medical system “to the precipice”, explained this Friday to this newspaper Isabel Grovas, medical coordinator of doctors without borders (MSF) in Gaza.
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