2023-11-12 23:11:08
by Davide Frattini
In order not to widen the conflict, the militiamen wanted to enter even deeper in Washington. Palestinians accuse the Jewish state of attacking the hospital. Rockets from Lebanon: 11 injured
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
JERUSALEM – The carcass of the helicopter in which Yasser Arafat took off stands on the hill in front of the sea, the rusty iron of a now corroded era. Now it is Herzi Halevi, the Israeli Chief of Staff, who flies over the Strip to get a bird’s eye view of the operations and motivate the troops who are fighting in the 363 square kilometers. The tanks in column on the seafront after the battles inside the Shati refugee camp, the Beach, where Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas now abroad, lived, his house was destroyed.
The Al Rashid road runs parallel to the Mediterranean, Palestinian families used to come there at sunset, now even the asphalt is sand, dust shredded by tracked vehicles. From here the troops took the port and entered Gaza City, towards Shifa hospital, which is in the center of the Strip even in normal times and is becoming the center of this war. The army spokesmen show the 3-dimensional models to demonstrate that under the clinic the fundamentalists have dug bunkers on various levels, it would be the jihadist headquarters from which tunnels branch off in various directions, Yahia Sinwar, the head of the leaders.
The terrorists announce – writes Reuters – that the negotiations on the release of hostages have for now collapsed because the soldiers have surrounded and attacked the hospital. The army denies having hit buildings in the shelter, explaining that it opened a safe route for evacuation and offered 300 liters of fuel to the doctors so that the life-saving machinery could continue to function, the paramilitaries would have prevented the delivery. In other clinics the situation is even worse, the patients have been taken out and are lying on the street, the Palestinian deaths are now over 11 thousand.
The Americans continue to maneuver so that the conflict does not spread. Palestinian groups targeted Israel from southern Lebanon, leaving 11 civilians and soldiers injured. Tsahal hit Hezbollah positions, which controls the areas from where the launches originated. Jake Sullivan, American national security advisor, in an interview with the CBS broadcaster presses the Israelis to prevent the situation from getting out of control: “We don’t want clashes inside the hospitals.” Josep Borrell, who leads the European Union’s diplomacy, calls for “immediate humanitarian pauses”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responds from the same screens: he reiterates that he is against returning control of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority (as Sullivan had again proposed), he accuses the Western demonstrators: «Who are you protesting against? The Nazis or the Allies? He continues to refuse to take responsibility for the invasion in the South 37 days ago, while documents collected by the Washington Post newspaper reveal that Palestinian paramilitaries aimed to enter even deeper into Israeli territory. He declares that “a hostage agreement is possible.”
The mediation conducted by Qatar is complicated by the outbursts of the most extremist ministers in the coalition. A monument with a noose has appeared in Tel Aviv and the messianic extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir is calling for the death penalty – it is not foreseen in Israel – for the 200 terrorists captured on 7 October, when 1,200 people were massacred in the villages around the Strip. Analysts point out how absurd it is to provoke fundamentalists while they control the fate of 240 kidnapped people.
November 12, 2023 (modified November 12, 2023 | 10:53 pm)
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