“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 from 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 obtain a ceasefire and relief for the people of Gaza,” according to a State Department statement.
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.
The war has lasted since October 7, 2023 and the Hamas attack which left 1,200 dead in Israel. In retaliation, the Jewish state drowned the Gaza Strip under bombs and reinforced the blockade already existing since the 2000s on the enclave, killing more than 43,000 Palestinians in just over a year.
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.
According to the head of Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini, daily average of trucks allowed by Israel into Gaza fell to 30 in Octoberwhich “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.”
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