Relative calm in the Gaza Strip for the second day in a row
Israel carried out strikes on the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, and witnesses reported explosions in the south, but the situation there is relatively calmer than the day before on the first day of the great Muslim festival of sacrifice. In a message to Muslims for Eid al-Adha, American President Joe Biden defended this Sunday a ceasefire plan between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, seeing it as the best way to help to the victims of the “horrors” of more than eight months of war.
The first day of the Muslim holiday coincided with the announcement by the Israeli army of a pause in its operations in an area of southern Palestinian territory to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid, which Gazans desperately need. . The Israeli army reported a break “from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. (5 a.m. to 4 p.m. GMT) every day and until further notice”, on a road section of around ten kilometers which extends from the point Israeli crossing from Kerem Shalom, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip, to the European hospital in Rafah, further north.
