2023-12-12 08:00:00
Israel denied that it is trying to push Palestinians seeking refuge from its bombings on Gaza towards the border with Egyptwhile international aid organizations stated that the famine was spreading among the civilian population of the besieged enclave.
As the humanitarian crisis worsened, Hamas fighters and Israeli soldiers clashed throughout the territory. Militants tried to prevent Israeli tanks from advancing through the destroyed streets, the agency reported Reuters.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, in just over two months of war, 18,205 people have been killed and 49,645 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza, hundreds of them since the United States vetoed a ceasefire proposal in the Council on Friday. of the United Nations Security Council.
Most of the 2.3 million Gazans have been driven from their homes and residents say it is impossible to find shelter or food in the densely populated enclave.
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A Palestinian told the agency Reuters that he had not eaten for three days and that he had to beg bread for his children. “I pretend to be strong, but I’m afraid I’ll collapse in front of them at any moment,” she said by phone, but declined to give his name for fear of reprisals.
UNRWA, the UN body responsible for Palestinian refugees, said some people were arriving at health centers and shelters carrying their dead children. “We are on the verge of collapse,” he warned on X (formerly Twitter).
Aid agencies also warned of a eventual breakdown of the social order as the situation worsens.
Israel bombs the southern and central Gaza Strip.
The UN fears a massive displacement towards Egypt
On Sunday, the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, admitted that he feared a massive displacement towards Egypt. On Saturday, UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said that moving Gazans closer to the border pointed to attempts to displace them to Egypt.
Jordan on Sunday also accused Israel of trying to “empty Gaza of its people.”“.
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The Israeli government denied on Monday that this was its objective. His spokesman, Eylon Levy, called the accusation “outrageous and false.”
Levy said his country was defending itself from the “monsters” who had attacked Israel in a cross-border attack on October 7.
Gaza Strip.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas does not subside
In the attack, the deadliest in Israeli history, Hamas gunmen killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 240 hostage, according to Israeli counts. About 100 have since been released.
The action triggered an Israeli retaliatory attack and provoked the bloodiest period of war in the decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The border with Egypt is the only exit from Gaza currentlybut Cairo has warned that it will not allow Gazans enter their territory, for fear that they will not be able to return.
UN officials say 1.9 million people – 85% of Gaza’s population – are displaced and describe conditions in the southern areas where they have gathered as hellish.
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Gazans say people, forced to flee repeatedly, are dying of hunger and cold, as well as shelling, and describe desperate attacks on aid trucks and skyrocketing prices. The UN World Food Program has stated that half of the population suffers from hunger.
U.N. Security Council envoys spoke of unimaginable suffering and urged an end to the war on Monday when they visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing.
China’s representative to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, asked by reporters if he had a message for nations opposed to a ceasefire in Gaza, said simply: “Enough is enough.”
The conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Israel’s ground offensive on Gaza
Israel vowed to annihilate Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2007 and has vowed to destroy the Jewish state. He states that his instructions to the population to move the areas are one of the measures to protect the population.
Accuses Hamas of using civilians as human shields and stealing humanitarian aid, which Hamas denies.
Following the failure of a week-long ceasefire on December 1, Israel began a ground offensive in the south and has since advanced from the east to the heart of the city of Khan Younis, with warplanes attacking an area to the west.
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On Monday, militants and residents said fighters were preventing Israeli tanks from advancing west through the city and clashing with Israeli forces in northern Gaza, where Israel had said its mission had largely concluded.
Israel claimed that dozens of Hamas fighters had surrendered and urged others to join them. Hamas’s armed wing said it had fired rockets toward Tel Aviv, where Israelis fled to shelters.
The Israeli army also accused Hamas of hiding weapons at the UNRWA facility in Jabalia and distributed a video showing Hamas gunmen beating people and taking aid in the Shejaia district of Gaza City. .
Israel has prevented most of the aid from reaching Gaza, saying it fears it will only fuel Hamas attacks.
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