2023-11-07 12:11:38
Time.news – Exactly one month after Hamas’s bloody attack on Israel, the Jewish state’s war on the Islamist movement has caused eleven thousand deaths, one unprecedented humanitarian disaster and it shows no sign of a turning point or even a future perspective. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has resisted calls for a ceasefire and has also warned that Israel will take over the security of the Palestinian territory once the war is over.
In the enclave controlled by Hamas, the health services update a bulletin of victims which appears increasingly dramatic, massacre after massacre: according to the latest toll, 10,022 Palestinians have died, the majority of them women and minors. The Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres said Gaza is becoming “a children’s cemetery” but the Security Council at the UN can’t find any way out.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army advances into the heart of the enclave. After surrounding Gaza City, troops have advanced into the city from the North and South in the last few hours. Hamas, which together with Hezbollah continues to launch missiles against Israel, does not appear to have the strength to resist the advancing columns of armored.
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Children among the rubble in Gaza
The army said its ground operations in Gaza, protected from raids from the air and from the sea, have progressed considerably: the aim is to increase pressure on Hamas strongholds, including the al-Hamas refugee camp. Shati, also known as Beach Camp, along the coast of Gaza City; And dismantle its control centers and tunnels.
Israel also continues to launch air strikes throughout the Strip, including the south. According to Palestinian sources, in the last few hours there have been explosions in Khan Younis, which is south of Gaza, and in an attack in Rafah, the place where they are taking refuge. hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled the North after Israel ordered the evacuation of Gaza City, 20 people died. Palestinian news agencies also reported Israeli soldiers entering the occupied West Bank towns of Jenin and Tulkarem.
Violence in the West Bank has increased sharply since Hamas launched the October 7 attack, which claimed the lives of 1,400 people and left more than 240 missing, dragged into the enclave. Netanyahu himself clarified yesterday once again that a ceasefire in the Strip depends on the release of all Israelis held hostage by Hamas, even if he raised the possibility that Israel could allow “tactical pauses” for humanitarian purposes. In these hours the G7 Foreign Ministers begin a meeting in Tokyo from which a joint request could emerge to apply a humanitarian pause in the tormented Strip.
“Anyone? Please! Can anyone answer?”
Israeli police officer prayed for signs of life, while searching for survivors in the aftermath of the Nova Music Festival Massacre on October 7.
All he heard was silence.
All he saw were lifeless bodies. pic.twitter.com/cpI4R5bqLB— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 7, 2023
The live broadcast
10.52am Israel opens the corridor, away from Gaza City with the white flag – Hundreds of residents of the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, left their homes, hoisting white flags, heading towards the south of the enclave. The video was released by the Israeli army’s Arabic spokesman, Avichay Adraee. Israel has opened another ‘safe’ corridor on the Salah a-Din road, the artery that connects the North and South of the Strip: residents will be able to take advantage of this to move towards the South, from 10am local time until 2pm today.
“Take advantage of the opportunity to move south, across the Gaza River, rest assured that the Hamas men have already taken care of getting to safety,” Adraee said
According to Hamas, Israel carried out 250 raids throughout the Gaza Strip overnight; attacks which – according to the Islamist movement – also hit targets in southern Gaza, in particular Khan Yunis and Rafah.
#urgent Dear residents of Gaza, join the many who are heading to the southern Gaza Valley at this hour!
I would like to inform you that although Hamas continues to undermine the ongoing humanitarian efforts on your behalf and uses you as human shields, today the IDF will once again allow passage on the Salah al-Din Road… pic.twitter.com/9hxL6e8gfn– Avichay Adraee (@AvichaiAdraee) November 7, 2023
10.11am A minute of silence in Israel for the victims of 7/10 – In Israel, at 11am local time, many places observed a minute’s silence in memory of the victims of the Hamas attack exactly one month ago.
8.55am Today another 2 humanitarian flights with 45 tons to Gaza – “The EU humanitarian bridge to Gaza has organized six flights so far and today there will be the seventh and eighth. They will bring 45 tonnes of humanitarian supplies, mostly medicines, medical instruments and some food.” This was announced by the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic, at a press point from Ostend airport. “We will continue to provide humanitarian aid for as long as necessary,” he assured. “The most pressing thing now is to allow access for this humanitarian aid. For example, there is an absolute need for fuel in Gaza”, he added.
7.25am Hamas attack in Rafah caused 20 deaths – The rescue services in Gaza, the Palestinian enclave governed by Hamas, have announced that around twenty people were killed in an Israeli attack in Rafah, the town in the south of the Strip where Palestinians fleeing from Gaza City are gathered. .
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