2024-08-20 03:01:00
The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinkenannounced this Monday in Tel Aviv that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accepted the last proposal of agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip e instó a Hamas a hacer lo mismo. Los diálogos traviesan “un momento decisiveo”, had previously declared Blinken, during his ninth trip to the region since the war in Gaza started, triggered on October 7 by a ferocious attack by the Palestinian movement in Israeli territory. Meanwhile, the Israeli army continues its fighting in the devastated Gaza Strip the UN demands a humanitarian pause in the Palestinian enclave to be able to vaccinate against polio for a possible outbreak.
“It’s the last opportunity”
“This is a decisive moment, probably the best, perhaps the last opportunity to recover the hostages and reach a truce”. declared Blinking he met in Tel Aviv with the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog. “Es también el momento de insura que nadie tome acciones que puedan descarrilar este proceso”, added the head of the American diplomacy.
Blinken said that he had a “very constructive meeting” with Netanyahu, who confirmed that “Israel accepts the transition proposal” raised by the United States last week during the negotiations in Doha. “El siguiente paso es que Hamas diga que sí”, warned Blinken, although the Islamist group, which did not attend the last round of negotiations in Doha, criticized the last proposal when it was transmitted to the mediators considering that it was bending to the demands come to Israel
While receiving Blinken in his office in Jerusalem for almost three hours, Netanyahu insisted that he would remain “firm” in the negotiations with Hamas in order not to give in to the “security needs of Israel”. The United States presented several draft agreements in June and Julythat Hamas accepted a priori and accused Netanyahu of putting new conditions, such as the Israeli control of the Philadelphia corridors, the border between France and Egypt used for years by the Islamists for arms smuggling, and Netzarin, a military route created by Israel en la guerra que parte el enclave en dos por la mitad.
In the last few weeks the international community led by EE.UU. pressure to achieve an agreement in the Gaza Strip after more than 10 months of war, which will also serve to neutralize the threat of Iran to attack Israel after the assassination of the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran last July 31 and thus avoid a regional escalation. The day before Israel also killed Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukr, in a bombardment in Beirut, because the Shiite group, an ally of Iran, vowed revenge and intensified its attacks.
Blinken also declared on Monday in Tel Aviv that he asked the Israeli leaders to take measures against the violence of the Jewish settlers directed against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The violence in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, increased since October 7, when the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas began. It also accelerated the creation of Israeli settlements in occupied lands, considered illegal by international law.
The pressure on the Israeli Executive is also increasing at an internal level. This Monday, a new demonstration was held in Tel Aviv to protest the agreement. “La guerra no tiene ningún vencedor”, read one of the placards carried by the demonstrators. Netanyahu declared that he wants the “maximum” number of “living hostages” to be released during the first three phases of the plan proposed by Washington.
Rechazo de Hamas
Israel’s negotiating team met during the weekend with the mediators in Doha, citing that Hamas did not attend, demanding that, instead of new negotiations, the agreement of the previous months be implemented based on the American proposal. “La nueva propuesta” que surgió en Doha “responds to the conditions imposed by Netanyahu and is consistent with them”, lamented Hamas on Sunday, al rejecting the agreement in Qatar.
“Sin un alto el fuego total, we will not accept any agreement”fue la primera respuesta que trasladó a los medios árabes Taher Al-Nonothe press adviser of the head of the Political Bureau of Hamas shortly after he found out about Israel’s proposal for a truce that was announced this Monday in Tel Aviv. “Blinken’s declarations are contrary to the truth. Hamas accepted the agreement, but Netanyahu rejected it”, said Al-Nono, who added: “Blinken’s declarations are part of the bias towards the occupation and cover up their crimes”.
Given the intransigence, Netanyahu assured Blinken that an Israeli delegation would continue the negotiations in Cairo this week. According to filtrations in the press, the new proposal stipulates that the permanent ceasefire will be negotiated once the provisional truce has been initiated, although it does not talk about the total withdrawal of the Israeli troops from France; while Egypt and Israel would have agreed that Israeli troops were deployed in the corridor of Philadelphia instead of opening the cross of Rafah and leaving it under Palestinian security.
Destruction in Gaza
A pesar del impulso negociador, la offensive israeli en Gaza continues y este domingo las tropas terrestres israelíes extended their operations to parts of Jan Yunis and, for the first time, we left the locality of Deir al Balahwhere about a million displaced people from the war are refugees. The Israeli army reported the destruction of a 1.5 kilometer long tunnel that was used by Hamas in Jan Yunis, an important area in the south of the enclave that historically was a bastion of Palestinian militias, and where soldiers killed a Palestinian journalist Ibrahim Mohreb interviewed reporter Salma Qadumi.
El lunes una fuente medica indicó que three people died in the bombardment of a house east of Jan Yunis. The Israeli army declared that its troops operated in the south and the center of the territory and that its aviation had “hit more than 45 terrorist objectives” in the last 24 hours. The fighting is devastating Gaza. A video published on the social networks by a UN official showed a convoy passing through scenes of total destruction, with almost all the buildings reduced to rubble and the few that were still seriously damaged.
Vaccination against polio
In the attack on October 7, Islamist militants from Hamas killed 1,198 people, most of them civilians. They kidnapped 251 people in the south of Israel, according to a report from the AFP agency based on official Israeli data. A total of 111 hostages remain in Gazaalthough 39 were declared dead by the Israeli army. The Israeli offensive in Gaza has left at least 40,139 dead, according to the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Territory.
The war forced almost the entire population of the Palestinian territory, 2.4 million inhabitants, to abandon their homes and provoked an important humanitarian and health catastrophe. This is Monday Blinken assured that Israel accepted efforts to vaccinate Gazan children against polio. On Friday, the UN asked them to establish “humanitarian pauses” in the Gaza Strip to vaccinate more than 640 thousand children, after detecting a case of polio in a 10-month-old baby, the first reported in the Palestinian territory in 25 years.
Israel announced on Sunday that it would facilitate the transfer of polio vaccines to Gaza for around a million children, but so far it has not advanced in this sense. La poliomyelitis, which is mainly transmitted by fecal-oral route, is a highly infectious virus that can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis. Los niños menores de 5 años son los que corren major riesgo de contraer la enfermedad viral, ya que los rímenes normales de vaccination se vieron altered por la war.
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