2023-10-20 10:54:00
Time.news – New Israeli attacks in the night against Hezbollah bases in southern Lebanon. The army (IDF) also announces that it has killed, with the use of a drone, a terrorist also in Lebanon. IDF also announced that it had hit more than 100 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight, including one where he remained a member of the Hamas naval forces who participated in the October 7 massacres was killed.
The IDF states that Amjad Majed Muhammad Abu ‘Odeh, targeted in one of the night attacks, was involved in the murder of Israeli civilians in Southern Israel. Another night attack against a Hamas air force team after it attempted to fire missiles at Israeli fighter jets.
The targets also included a mosque in the Jabaliya neighborhood, which the IDF said contained Hamas assets and weapons and was used by Hamas as an observation point and staging ground. The opening of the Rafah crossing to allow the passage of humanitarian aid from Egypt is not yet certain. The only access road to Gaza that is expected to reopen is bomb-damaged and dangerous. Egyptian diggers are trying to repair the Rafah crossing with the hope that 20 aid trucks will be able to enter, but according to sources interviewed by CNN the reopening will not take place today.
Israel has said it will only accept the passage of food, water and medicine. Fuel, desperately needed to power hospitals and water filtration systems, is not part of the deal. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, speaking in Cairo, said the arriving supplies would alleviate what he called colossal human pain and suffering.
Israel’s crimes according to 6 UN speakers
Six UN special rapporteurs accuse Israel of committing crimes against humanity in Gaza, following a 16-day siege of that territory, military action, arrests and killings, and say there is a “risk of genocide” in the Palestinian territory. “There is no justification for these crimesand we are horrified by the lack of action by the international community in the face of this warmonger,” the UN experts said in a statement.
They added that Gaza’s population, of which half of the 2 million inhabitants are children, have already suffered decades of illegal occupation, endured 16 years of blockade and now face “a total siege, coupled with impossible evacuation orders to be respected”, which violates international law.
Grandi (UNHCR): catastrophic military escalation for Gaza
Any Escalation of military activities in Gaza Strip will be ‘catastrophic’ for the people who live there, it has warned the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. “I can tell you with certainty that any further escalation or even continuation of military activities will be simply catastrophic for the people of Gaza,” Filippo Grandi told reporters in Japan.
Reproduction is expressly reserved © Time.news 2023
#Rafah #crossing #open #today #Gaza #remains #waiting #aid