The hell that has lived the population of Gaza for 19 months follows a script that, since Tuesday, has been repeated again: bombing against buildings, schools, hospitals, tents – or Palestinians fleeing down the street; Massive eviction orders and, finally, operations with land forces and tanks such as those that this Friday entered the strip. The Army of Israel has confirmed on Saturday the beginning of a new land invasion of Gaza to permanently occupy new areas of the Palestinian territory. The more than 350 dead -58 of them in the early hours of this Saturday- that Palestinian sanitary sources denounce in the enclave, they have been, as feared, the prelude to that new baptized terrestrial operation, as is customary in Israel, with a name of biblical resonances: The cars of Gedeón.
The announcement, released in the Army Telegram account, says that, “during the last 24 hours”, the Israeli army “has launched extensive attacks and mobilized forces to seize controlled areas in the Gaza Strip, as part of the initial movements of the operation Gideon cars and the expansion of the campaign in Gaza, to achieve all the objectives of the war. “Those objectives are, collects the statement,” the liberation of hostages and the dismantling of the Hamas terrorist organization. ”
The new operation confirmed by the military statement of this morning is the one that the Israeli security cabinet announced last day 5 to progressively expand the offensive in Gaza until they occupy new territories without going back. This new land invasion is a qualitative leap, as the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, explained, which assured that his army will abandon “the method of incursions” to pass “to the conquest of territories and permanence in them.”
On Friday, hours before Trump concluded a tour of which Israel has been excluded, the Israeli tanks began to advance in three points of the northern area of Gaza: East of Yabalia, the north of Beit Lahia and a third area in the northwest of the strip. Those two locations, Yabalia – especially their refugee camp – and Beit Lahia had concentrated a good part of the bombings of that day, which also hit other areas of the strip.
Four of those tanks surrounded and attacked a school in Beit Lahia, turned into a refuge for dozens of displaced families, local sources informed Efe.
The advance of this new invasion is being fast, according to Palestinian sources, for the little one – not more than 40 square kilometers – and razed Palestinian territory. This Saturday at dawn, Israeli armored vehicles were already moving towards the Balah, in the center of the strip. His advance was accompanied by the rumble of some bombings without truce, especially in the north. The sources have reported new attacks tonight in the Yabalia refugee field and against two hospitals, the AWDA, in that same northern town, and the Indonesian hospital, in Beit Lahia.
“From midnight, we have received 58 martyrs (deceased), while a large number of victims remain under the rubble. The situation within the hospital is catastrophic,” said Marwan to Sultan, director of the Indonesian hospital. The Israeli attacks of the last 24 hours have killed at least 146 people, Palestinian sources have said this Saturday.
This new military operation entails one of the recurring nightmares of the Gazati: a new massive displacement to which they will be forced in the midst of a specialitarian situation especially catastrophic. The population of the strip appears to the famine when more than two and a half months have elapsed since Israel closed to Canto the border totally preventing the entry of humanitarian aid. This blockade includes food, medical supplies and other vital goods without which “we are witnessing in real time, the creation of the necessary conditions for the eradication of Palestinian life in Gaza, says doctors without borders (MSF) in a statement.
When the dead already exceeded hundred this Friday, according to the civil defense of the territory, well into the afternoon, the Israeli army began to launch octavillas on several neighborhoods of Beit Lahia, two schools that housed displaced and a sector of the Yabalia refugee camp.
“To all those present in this area, be in a shelter, a tent or a building, you are in a dangerous combat zone, so your safety is risking,” said a text that ended up sentenced to those inhabitants to comply with a nth order of eviction. “Go immediately to the south,” said the text in Arabic.
This Saturday has also rained Octavillas, this time in the center of Gaza, in Deir al Balah, according to Palestinians of the enclave on their social networks. In them, the Koran is cited: “God the exalted said: ‘Then we reveal to Moses: hits the sea with your cane, and broke, each side as a high mountain.”
That phrase is followed by another that Palestinian sources have described as part of a psychological war: “Gaza residents, the Israeli army is coming.” Most of the at least 350 Gazati who have perished under Israeli bombs in the last three days were women and children.
“Pressure”
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz This Saturday, Israeli military sources have described the bombings of recent days in Gaza as a way to increase “the pressure (on Hamas) within the framework of negotiations for a hostage release agreement.” To fail these negotiations, these sources warned, that will trigger the launch of this new land operation that, in reality, is already in progress, as confirmed by the military statement of this morning.
Hours after the confirmation of the beginning of Gaza’s new invasion, the Israeli Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, has boasted that Hamas had returned to the negotiating table thanks to the new campaign of his army in the Strip. However, a “source involved in negotiations” cited by the Haaretz He pointed out that the Palestinian Islamist movement had never abandoned that table. Taher al Nono, a leader of the organization, has told Reuters that both parties have addressed the discussion “without previous conditions.”
The contacts between Israel and Hamas take place since Tuesday in Doha. Of them has not transcended practically anything. However, the mandate of the delegation sent to the Catarí capital by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, is so limited that the possibility of an agreement seems difficult. Netanyahu has reiterated this week that even if Hamas would release the 58 hostages still in his power-majority, and corpses- of the 251 he took on October 7, 2023, does not plan to stop war until he achieved a “total victory” over the Palestinian Islamist movement.
The Israeli executive, the most right -wing in the history of the country, insists on negotiating only the delivery of hostages by Hamas in exchange for a 45 -day truce that, in no case, would open the door to peace or to the withdrawal of its troops from the strip, as claimed by the Palestinian movement.
This Friday, Hamas accused the Israeli prime minister of “continuing to commit a genocide” in Gaza for “the growing massacre of occupation (as is usually referred to Israel) against civilians,” according to a statement released on Telegram.
The Israeli bombings that have hit Gaza since Tuesday have added at least 350 names to a list of the dead of the health authorities of the strip that already amounts to more than 53,300. This week’s attacks have turned the most deadly since Israel unilaterally broke the last high fire on March 18, precisely not to have to negotiate the end of their offensive in Gaza. This despite the fact that the second phase of the truce that refused to discuss implied the release of hostages.
A militarized plan
The plans of the new land invasion in Gaza were presented at the same time that Israel and the United States revealed a controversial plan to militarize humanitarian aid, whose previous step is the displacement of almost all Gazaties to the south of the city of Jan Yunis.
According to this project, Israeli soldiers will control the Palestinians who approach four aid distribution points established by a murky private organization, the humanitarian Gaza Foundation, which has already announced that it will have already announced that it will begin to work in the strip at the end of this month. This organization will distribute a minimum of aid under the supervision of the Israeli army and private security contractors of the United States; that is, of mercenaries.
Both the UN and the NGOs have been strongly opposed to that project and that only collects the entry in Gaza of 60 trucks with food per day, 10% of those who penetrated the territory during the truce, something insufficient already then and even more now. The British BBC chain published satellite images on Thursday that show that the distribution points that Israel are already being built to distribute that aid that, in addition, is estimated that it will only reach 1.2 million of the 2.1 million Palestinians of Gaza.
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