2023-10-30 22:12:40
Israel will not accept a ceasefire in Gaza. Under no circumstance. Not even for free the hostages nor pressured by international community. That has been the main message of the appearance before the media. Benjamin Netanyahu this Monday. The Israeli prime minister has flatly rejected any possibility of stopping a war that has already killed more than 8,300 Palestinians y 1,400 Israelis and what is destroying Gaza with unprecedented devastation. “Calls for a ceasefire in Gaza are calls for Israel to surrender ante Hamassurrender to him terrorism and surrender to the barbarity“. The right-wing leader, extraordinarily questioned before the bloody conflagration began, has compared the moment his country is experiencing with Pearl Harbor or the 11-S and has announced that the offensive will intensify. “The The Bible It says there is a time for peace and a time for war. “This is the time of war,” he added.
His words are a message to the world, but, above all, they are a message to the families of the 239 hostages in the hands of Hamas, more desperate every day. In a country hungry for revenge, they have been the only voices that have dared to ask for cessation of violence to give a chance to prisoner exchange. Netanyahu has dressed his speech with the Manichaeism and rhetoric used by his partners neoconservatives for invade Iraq in 2003. He has described Hamas as “the enemies of civilization“, “part of the axis of evil created by Iran” and has said that the world must decide where it wants to be. “It is time for the whole world to decide how it positions itself: Israel will be against the forces of barbarism to victory”.
All of this has come while Israel continues reducing Gaza to rubble and systematically violating the International human right. In the last 24 hourshe israeli army has attacked 600 targets in the Strip, as reported by their spokespersons, in endless bombings that have been accompanied by the intensification of their ground operations. His troops fought during the day at the gates of Gaza City, where the pressure of USA has managed to restore part of the Phone signal. He siege by land, sea and air runs parallel to a public relations campaign released in recent days by Israel with the ostensible goal of preparing the world for possible bombing the rest hospitals, schools and other civil infrastructure.
The rosary of war crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza, not unlike what Hamas committed in southern Israel, only on a larger scale, it seems to have no end. This same Monday an artillery shot hit the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, dedicated to the treatment of cancer patients. “The third floor, where anesthesia is administered, received a direct hit from an Israeli projectile and destroyed walls, windows and oxygen tanks,” the center’s director, Sobhi Skeik, told Al Jazeera. There were no patients or doctors at the plant at that time and there were no injuries, according to his statement.
Warnings to hospitals
The Army has also been issuing orders for several days to 13 hospitals in central and northern Gaza for them to be evacuated. This is what the World Health Organization (WHO) has said in its latest report, which adds that “it is impossible to do so without endangering the lives of patients and displaced people, particularly those who require assisted respiration.” Their report adds that there are not enough ambulances to transport them nor space in hospitals in the south. He 71% of primary care centers and the 34% of hospitals have stopped working due to lack of fuel or 36 attacks that have affected health facilities, adds the WHO.
None of this has forced Israel to change its policy, quite the opposite. “Under the hospitals, schools, mosques y Gaza housing the horrible underworld hides Hamas terrorism“, says the Israeli Army in its X account. “To dismantle Hamas we must dismantle the tunnels.” The army has been suggesting for days that it is willing to attack the hospital Al Shifa, the most important and populated in Gaza. He maintains that below is the Hamas headquarters, a statement that tries to support with alleged prisoner confessions interrogated, ghost audio and 3D recreations of the hospital’s basement. “Terrorism cannot be in a hospital and the army will act to unmask any terrorist infrastructure,” the IDF said, referring to Al Shifa.
The number of dead and injured It is colossal and completely unusual in decades of conflict. Among the more than 8,300 deaths, hay 3,457 children, to which we must add a thousand missing minors. The number of Palestinian children crushed by bombs in just over three weeks exceeds the sum of all minors killed in armed conflicts since 2019, according to Save the Children. “Anyone who dares to accuse our soldiers of war crimes is a lying hypocrite that lacks the slightest morality. Our army is most moral in the world“he said last Saturday Netanyahu.
At the gates of the capital of Gaza
Various sources assure that they are taking place intense fighting in the vicinity of Gaza City, where 600,000 people lived before the war and which Israel has ordered to “evacuate.” His tanks would have advanced near 3 kilometers from the fence that separates the enclave from Israel, although the latest information from Al Jazeera states that they could be in retreat.
In other fronts of the warwhich have not yet opened despite constant skirmishes, Israel bombed rocket launching platforms in Syria y Lebanon, from where it continues to receive moderate attacks. And at the same time the raids and violent raids of Israeli troops and settlers in towns and cities in the Occupied West Bank.
More than 100 dead in West Bank
In the last few hours at least five Palestinians in different parts of the territory partially administered by the Palestinian Authority (ANP), bringing the number of deaths here since October 7 to more than a hundred. He does not govern in the West Bank Hamas and its military activity has been seriously restricted for years by the ANP itself, which cooperates closely with Israel on security matters.
Far from subsiding, all this mess seems to be going for a long time. The military leader of the Internal Front, Rafi Milo, said on Sunday that the fighting could continue “for months” and called on the country to maintain an “emergency routine.” For now, the great powers continue to allow it and the potential for global destabilization continues to grow. To the massive demonstrations of support for the Palestinians around the world, we must add the growing harassment against the Jewish community and the diaspora israelisas seen on Sunday at the Dagestan airport, where a crowd tried to hunt down the Israeli passengers.
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