2023-11-06 03:19:55
A new stage in the war, almost a month after the Hamas terrorist attacks? The Israeli army announced this Sunday evening that it was carrying out “significant strikes” in the Gaza Strip. “They will continue tonight and in the days to come,” said army spokesperson Daniel Hagari, asserting that IDF forces operating in the territory had now split it into two: “Gaza South and Gaza north “.
During the day on Sunday, despite multiple calls for a truce, fierce fighting continued between Israeli soldiers and Hamas. Images broadcast during the day by Tel Aviv showed soldiers, accompanied by tanks and bulldozers, patrolling the rubble or along the Mediterranean coast of this strip of land.
At the end of the day, telephone and Internet lines in Gaza were cut by Israel, for the third time since October 7, according to the Palestinian operator Paltel. Shortly after this blackout, the Israeli army intensely bombarded Gaza City and other areas of northern Palestinian territory, according to Hamas. Explosions were heard as far away as Rafah in the far south of the territory.
Aid to the Gaza Strip at the heart of diplomatic negotiations
In the evening, the Hamas government claimed that “intense bombardments” were taking place around several hospitals. Earlier, the Israeli army, once again accusing the Palestinian group of using health facilities in the war, released images showing, it said, Hamas members firing from a hospital in Gaza.
During a new mission in the region, Antony Blinken arrived in Baghdad in the evening after visits to Ramallah in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, and to Cyprus. In Ramallah, he warned against the “forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, after the Israeli army repeatedly called on Palestinians to evacuate the north of the territory, where the fighting is most intense, to the south . The US official also reaffirmed “the United States’ commitment to the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance and the resumption of essential services in Gaza.”
VIDEO. “Too many civilians are dying in Gaza,” says Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna
Traveling to Doha, Qatar, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, called on Sunday for an “immediate humanitarian truce” after fighting which left several thousand civilians dead. “An immediate, lasting and sustained humanitarian truce is absolutely necessary and must be able to lead to a ceasefire,” she said, announcing that she was working on the adoption of a text at the UN with several partner countries. .
But Israel, which has sworn to “annihilate” Hamas after the attacks which left 1,400 dead on its soil, says it is for the moment opposed to any pause in the war until the more than 200 hostages have been released. “We will continue (the offensive) until we achieve victory. We have no other alternative,” assured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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