The Israeli army said it was verifying this information. She had previously indicated “operate against infrastructure and terrorist agents in the north and center” of Palestinian territory, an area where it launched an offensive on October 6, claiming to want to defeat units of the Palestinian Islamist movement.
Defying international criticism, Israel also officially informed the UN on Monday of the ban on UNRWA, an agency considered to be the “spine” aid to refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the army “continues to violently bomb and destroy the hospital” Kamal Adwan, dont elle show “all parts”.
The director of the establishment, located in Beit Lahia, Houssam Abou Safia, described a situation “catastrophic” after strikes without prior warning.
“The third floor of the establishment was reportedly hit again, injuring six children”said on X the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The war in Gaza was triggered by the unprecedented attack carried out on October 7, 2023 by Hamas on Israeli soil. The next day, in support of its Palestinian ally, the Lebanese Hezbollah, opened a front against Israel, triggering nearly a year of exchanges of fire which turned into open war in September.
On the eve of the presidential election in the United States, Israel's main ally, diplomatic efforts to put an end to these hostilities remained unsuccessful.
“No alternative”
A week after Parliament passed a law banning the activities in Israel of the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Foreign Affairs “have notified the UN of the cancellation of the agreement between Israel and UNRWA”according to a press release.
The agreement dates back to 1967, when Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza, as well as East Jerusalem, began, where UNRWA provided essential aid – education, health, social services – for decades. , food and cash aid.
Israel, of which UNRWA has been a long-standing pet peeve, has once again accused “employees of the organization for having participated in the massacre of October 7” 2023.
“If the law is implemented, it risks causing the collapse of the international humanitarian operation in Gaza, of which UNRWA is the backbone”warned Jonathan Fowler, a spokesperson for the agency.
“There is simply no alternative to UNRWA”reacted on X Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, for whom the ban “will not make Israel safer” but go “only increase suffering” Palestinians.
Israel told the UN that the UNRWA ban will come into force after “for a period of three months”.
The UN General Assembly is due to hold a session on Wednesday devoted to UNRWA.
“Kill all the Palestinian people”
“Currently, the Palestinian people depend almost entirely on aid from abroad, especially from UNRWA, and interrupting it amounts to killing the entire Palestinian people”reacts Abdel Karim Kallab, in Khan Younes, in the south of Gaza.
For Hamas, Israel's decision “is an attempt to deny refugees the right to return to their homes.”
This movement also claimed on Monday to have spoken with its rival Fatah in Cairo, about the war in Gaza and efforts to reach a Palestinian national consensus.
In a phone call with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken “noted that Hamas had once again refused to release even a limited number of hostages in order to secure a ceasefire and relief for the people of Gaza”according to a press release from the State Department.
Hamas said Friday that it had refused to study a proposal for a short truce in the Gaza Strip from mediating countries because it did not include a permanent ceasefire.
Israel vowed to destroy Hamas after its attack, which resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data, including hostages killed or died in captivity. Of 251 people kidnapped, 97 remain hostages in Gaza, including 34 declared dead by the army.
The Israeli offensive launched in retaliation in Gaza left 43,374 dead, mostly civilians, according to data from the Hamas Ministry of Health, deemed reliable by the UN. The vast majority of the inhabitants of the small besieged territory have been displaced.
“This is not enough”
According to UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini, the daily average of trucks authorized by Israel to enter Gaza fell to 30 in October, which “is not enough to meet the needs of more than 2 million people, many of whom are hungry and sick and living in desperate conditions.”
On its northern front, Israel carried out new air raids on southern Lebanon on Monday, where its troops have also been engaged on the ground since September 30.
The Israeli army launched a massive bombing campaign against pro-Iranian Hezbollah on September 23, saying it wanted to push its fighters back around thirty km from the border, to allow the return of some 60,000 inhabitants of northern Israel displaced by his shots.
The movement, however, continues these attacks, and said on Monday that it had launched a salvo of rockets on Safed.
At least 1,940 people have been killed since September 23 in Lebanon, according to an AFP count based on official data.
The Israeli army also claimed Monday to have struck Hezbollah intelligence targets for Syria in Damascus. The raid killed two Hezbollah fighters according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH).
