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Updated Saturday, December 23, 2023 – 18:55
The Israeli Army and Hamas continue their fierce fighting in the north and south of Gaza while Guterres and Israel have a new clash
Smoke over buildings in the Gaza Strip after an explosion.Leo CorreaAPWar in Israel The UN Security Council approves a bittersweet resolution for humanitarian aid to Gaza in the face of pressure from the US Red Sea Who are the Houtes and why do they threaten security world
Israel prepares for third phase of the war began with the unprecedented attack by the fundamentalist group Hamas on October 7. After the massive bombings, accompanied for almost two months by the ground incursion in the second phase of an offensive also unprecedented in the Gaza Stripthe army plans to move in January to a more selective phase with specific operations and the withdrawal of part of its troops, especially reservists, creating a security cushion for the Israeli border towns.
Meanwhile, Israel continues its air attacks causing, along with the fighting, and according to the Ministry of Health controlled by Hamas, 201 deaths in the last two days. The Israeli army announced, on the other hand, this Saturday afternoon the death of five soldiers more in the Gaza Strip.
The new stage of the Israeli operation coincides with the demand of the United States, which supports hitting Hamas to prevent new terrorist attacks from Gaza, but there remains concern about the high number of civilian deaths and the deterioration of the humanitarian crisis. The emphasis on more selective actions also has to do with operational needs after taking control of much of northern Gaza and deepening the incursion into the south. Jan Yunis. Likewise, the army asked the inhabitants in an area in the center of the Palestinian enclave to leave towards the south which, according to the director of the UNWRA office (UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees), Thomas White, “it is saturated with displaced people.” More than 80% of the 2.2 million inhabitants have abandoned their homes.
Finally, the question of 129 kidnapped (20 of them declared dead) plays an increasingly important role in the Israeli Cabinet’s plans, given the urgency for the health of the elderly and the growing fear that young Israelis have been raped in captivity.
While the Gaza Health Ministry reported 18 dead in an Israeli bombardment in Deir Balah, rescuers indicated that at least 70 members of the same family died in an attack last Friday. Among them, Issam al-Mughrabi, an employee of the UN Development Program.
This Saturday, the Israeli Army announced the death of “dozens of terrorists in the north of Gaza City in an ambush that led them to a building that Hamas used as a headquarters and was attacked” and “the arrest of more than 200 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists “who were transferred to Israel for interrogation in the last week.”
Jihad and Hamas reported heavy fighting in Jabalia while in Khan Younis, Israeli troops encounter armed opposition based on extensive network of tunnels. Hamas leader Yahia Sinwar, whom the Defense Minister Yoav Gallantwarns: “Now listen to the bombs of the Air Force and soon you will encounter the barrels of our weapons.”
UN Security Council Resolution
The UN Security Council resolution in favor of promoting humanitarian aid has been defined by Hamas as “insufficient” for not including the request for truce accusing the US of “defying the will of the UN General Assembly to stop Israel’s aggression against our defenseless Palestinian people.” For Hamas, a Stop the fire It will now prevent or at least stop Israel’s declared attempt to end its armed wing and control in Gaza. Israel applauded that the approved text maintains its “security authority to monitor and inspect aid entering Gaza” and includes the call for the release of those kidnapped.
The resolution, voted this Friday, caused yet another clash between Israel and the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres. While he pointed out that the way in which “Israel is carrying out its offensive creates massive obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian aid inside Gaza,” the Foreign Minister So Cohen He replied that the resolution “emphasizes the need to ensure that the UN is more efficient in the transfer of humanitarian aid and that aid reaches its destination and does not end up in the hands of Hamas terrorists.” The Israeli ambassador to the UN, From Gileaddenounced that “the Security Council as an organ has not yet condemned the massacre of October 7. This is a shame.”
While Guterres reiterated his call for a humanitarian ceasefire “as the only way to begin meeting the desperate needs of the people of Gaza and put an end to their current nightmare,” the prime minister’s spokesman Benjamin Netanyahu, Mark Regevtold CNN that his request for a ceasefire for two months is “offering a lifeline to Hamas. If you ask for a ceasefire while keeping Hamas in power, you are condemning us all to future bloodshed.” “.
Sinwar maintains his refusal to negotiate a ceasefire and the release of hostages if Israel does not cease its massive offensive. What does not stop but increases is the pace of ataques del grupo libans Hizbulwhich are responded to by the Israeli Air Force against its troops and infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
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