GAZA STRIP: Sunday marked the fourth day of intense fighting and airstrikes in Gaza City’s Shujaiya quarter, months after Israel announced that Hamas had dissolved its command structure in the region to the north.
The army claimed to have battled Palestinian rebels “above and below ground” in tunnels, and tens of thousands of Palestinians had left the damaged neighborhood.
The Gaza truce and hostage release agreement have been the subject of months of intermittent negotiations, but little has been accomplished. Hamas said that a revised proposal put out by US mediators contained “nothing new.”
According to the Israeli military, throughout the previous 24 hours, ground and air troops “eliminated several terrorists” during operations on fighters’ camps. Additionally, a week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the October 7–starting “intense phase” of the attack was coming to an end, it reported fighting in central Gaza and the southern Rafah area.
KEEP READING:
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 24 in Gaza City, health officials say
Israeli strikes on Rafah tent camps kill 25 Palestinians, wound 50 others
sraeli forces step up strikes across Gaza
OCHA, the UN organization responsible for humanitarian relief, calculated that between 60,000 and 80,000 people had been displaced from Shujaiya as a result of the army’s evacuation orders and fresh
Siham al-Shawa, 50, a native of Shujaiya, said of those who are still alive, “our lives have become hell.” People are imprisoned, she claimed, because strikes might occur “anywhere” and “it is difficult to get out of the neighborhood under fire.”
“We have no idea where to go to be safe.” Israeli soldiers, according to Netanyahu, “are operating in Rafah, Shujaiya, and everywhere in the Gaza Strip.”
A statement released by Netanyahu’s office claims that he informed his cabinet that “dozens of terrorists are being eliminated every day.”
00
combat that started on Thursday.
‘Everything is rubble’
According to medical personnel at Nasser Hospital, where the remains were brought, an airstrike that targeted a residence in Rafah before morning claimed the lives of six individuals. Parts of the city were also shook by artillery firing, according to witnesses.
Early in May, an Israeli military ground assault in Rafah resulted in the closure of a crucial humanitarian crossing.
The 2.4 million people living in Gaza are in grave danger of famine as a result of the Israeli siege, which has alarmed the UN and other aid organizations.
Speaking from Khan Yunis, Louise Wateridge of UNRWA, the UN organization that assists Palestinian refugees, declared, “Everything is rubble.” There is no food, drink, or sanitary facilities available. People are increasingly returning to live in thesestructures that are only empty shells
Thousands of demonstrators once more descended to Tel Aviv’s streets on Saturday in Israel, demanding more work be done to free the remaining inmates and pressing for early elections.
‘Obliterating war
Washington this week offered “new language” for some of the planned arrangement, about a month after US President Joe Biden unveiled a plan for a cease-fire, according to US news site Axios.
Although the organization had received the most recent proposal, according to Osama Hamdan, a Hamas leader in Lebanon, it showed “no real progress in the negotiations.”
The plans, which Hamdan described as “a waste of time,” were designed to allow Israel “more time [.. ] to practice genocide.”
Israel has consistently rejected Hamas’ calls for a lasting truce and an Israeli departure from Gaza. “Hamas is the only obstacle to the release of our hostages,” stated Netanyahu on Sunday.
“We will return them all with military and diplomatic pressure,” he declared. In addition, the Gaza battle has increased tensions along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, where the army has exchanged gunfire with the Hezbollah organization, an ally of Hamas backed by Iran. The likelihood of a full-fledged conflict has increased this month.
Iran’s UN mission stated on social media that it “considers Israeli propaganda about planning an attack on Lebanon as psychological warfare.”
Additionally, it issued a warning to its fiercest adversary, saying that “should it embark on full-scale military aggression, an obliterating war will ensue,” which may entice additional armed organizations in the area that support Tehran.
Israeli strikes in the border area were reported by Lebanese government media on Sunday, while Hezbollah claimed responsibility for multiple attacks on Israeli military positions. Three fatalities among its ranks were reported by the movement.
[…] Fighting rages in Gaza City’s Shujaiya for fourth day […]
[…] Fighting rages in Gaza City’s Shujaiya for fourth day […]