FLASH
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Israel's measures have turned the Gaza Strip into a place of despair and death, completely uninhabitable...
Today, Israel enters the fourth month of war with Hamas, following the deadly attack by the militant group on October 7, 2023. These months of war have been full of anxiety for world powers, due to the risk of the conflict spreading to the Middle East region. .
The Israeli military claimed on Saturday to have "dismantled" a Hamas military facility in the northern Gaza Strip after eyewitnesses reported fresh Israeli airstrikes in Khan Yunis, the largest city in the southern Gaza Strip.
Khan Younis has become a battleground between the Israeli army and Hamas, with the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reporting many dead and wounded.
The Israeli military said it was now focusing on the central and southern part of the Palestinian enclave, an area that was home to some 2.4 million Palestinians before the conflict erupted.
"We succeeded in dismantling the military structure of Hamas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. We are now focusing on dismantling Hamas in the central and southern Gaza Strip ," spokesman Daniel Haggari told reporters, noting however that Hamas elements operate in northern Gaza, although "without structure and without commanders".
"The war will not stop until we achieve the stated objectives, which are to eliminate Hamas, recover the hostages and ensure that there is no longer a threat to Israel ," Haggari said on Saturday.
Israel's political and military leadership is "committed" to eliminating Hamas, which it labels a "terrorist" organization, as did the EU and the US, after its unprecedented attack on southern sectors of Israeli territory on October 7, when around 1,140 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP report based on official statements from the authorities. It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish state since 1948.
Fighters from Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups also took about 250 people hostage that day, more than 100 of whom were released in late November as part of a week-long ceasefire.
Since then, hostilities in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 22,722 people, the vast majority of them women and children, according to the latest figures from the Hamas Health Ministry. This corresponds to 1% of the registered population.
The injured exceed 58,000, according to the same source.
Protests in Tel Aviv
Israeli anti-government protesters gathered Saturday night in Tel Aviv's Habima Square, demanding early elections and the resignation of the Netanyahu government.
"Enough! The government is a bunch of idiots. It's taking us to a place of horror. It's taking us to a nameless future. Bibi Netanyahu and all his idiots will destroy Israel and everything we hoped and dreamed of ," said Shahaf Netzer, 54. years old.
"All of us here want new elections. We need a new government. We need a new leader," he added, as the Israeli opposition calls on Prime Minister Netanyahu to resign, arguing that he has not received a "vote of confidence" from the population to carry out "prolonged" military operations in the Strip. Gaza.
In Paris and other French cities, thousands of people took part in demonstrations demanding a "ceasefire" and support for the population of the Gaza Strip.
At a cemetery in Gaza City, Palestinians on Saturday reburied bodies that had been exhumed since the start of Israeli ground operations in late October.
Israeli operations have flattened entire neighborhoods in Gaza and forced 1.9 million people, 85% of the population, according to the UN, to flee their homes, without water, food, medicine or medical care, as many hospitals in the enclave have been closed. .
"Israel's actions have turned the Gaza Strip into a place of despair and death, completely uninhabitable," said UN humanitarian coordinator Martin Griffiths.
At the same time, in the West Bank, an Israeli attack killed six Palestinians in Jenin who were participating in a public gathering, Mahmoud Abbas' Palestinian Authority Health Ministry announced early today.
Ignition hazard
"Israel has stated that its goal is to eliminate Hamas. But there must be another way to eliminate Hamas, which does not cause so many deaths among civilians" , said yesterday Saturday the head of European diplomacy, Joseph Borell, during his visit to Lebanon, where he considered "absolutely necessary" to prevent the outbreak of regional conflict.
Since October 8, the day after Hamas's bloody attack on Israel that sparked the war, almost daily exchanges of fire between Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Israeli army have killed 181 people in Lebanon, including 135 Shiite fighters, of the armed movements. according to an AFP report.
And tensions peaked after the death in an Israeli-attributed airstrike of Hamas vice president Saleh al-Arouri in a southern suburb of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold. The "preliminary revenge" of the Shiite movement, next to Iran and the ally of Hamas, was the launch of 62 rockets against an Israeli military base.
In Syria and Iraq, attacks on US military bases have increased since October 17, while in Yemen the Houthi rebels, also allies of Iran, have stepped up drone and missile attacks against merchant ships in the Red Sea in a sign of "support" for the Palestinians. in the Gaza Strip.
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna called her Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian yesterday to demand that Iran and its forces align with her "immediately" and stop "destabilizing actions" as the danger in the region has never been greater.
The head of US diplomacy, Anthony Blinken, is in Jordan today, as part of his tour of the region with the stated goal of preventing escalation in the region. / Adapt "Pamphlet from "Kathimerini"
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