The war between Israel and Hamas enters its fourth month with no signs of respite as the United States seeks to prevent the conflict from spreading

The war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas entered this Sunday in it’s the fourth month without showing signs of respitewith new bombings Israelis in Gaza and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken touring the Middle East to try prevent the conflict from spreading to the region.

Israel has promised to destroy Hamas after the October 7 attack in its own territory, which caused around 1,140 deaths according to AFP agency calculations based on Israeli data.

Meanwhile, around 132 hostages of the 250 kidnapped by Hamas – a group classified by the European Union and the United States as “terrorist” – They remain prisoners in Palestinian territory.

The offensive that Israel launched in Gaza in retaliation has so far left its mark at least 22,835 dead, mostly civiliansaccording to the Hamas Ministry of Health, which administers the Palestinian enclave.

According to the United Nations, Israeli bombing has left entire neighborhoods of Gaza in ruins, forced 85 percent of Gazans to flee their homes and caused a major humanitarian crisis.

The Israeli army executed all the Saturday night air raidsof which at least six are in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. At least 64 people died in these attackssaid the Hamas health minister.

On Sunday morning, witnesses reported shelling in Khan Yunis, also in the south of the territory and the new epicenter of the fighting.

The Hamas Health Ministry also said that two Palestinian journalists, Mustafa Thuria (a freelance cameraman working for the AFP agency) and Hamza Wael Dahdouh (a reporter for the Al Jazeera channel), were killed in an Israeli attack while they were at driving a vehicle.

For its part, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced this on Sunday evacuated its staff from a hospital in central Gaza.

“The situation became so dangerous that some members of our team living in the neighborhood could no longer even leave their homes due to constant threats from drones and snipers,” said Carolina Lopez, a member of the NGO.

In the West Bank (Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967) six Palestinians died in Jenin in a raid by Israeli troops. Two Israelis, a police officer and a civilian were also killed.

The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had “completed the dismantling of the Hamas military structure in the north” of Gaza and would henceforth focus “on the center and south” of the territory.

Hamas took power in Gaza in 2007, two years after Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the territory. Israel subsequently placed the narrow territory under blockade for 16 years, before imposing a full siege from October 9.

Despite international pressure and calls for a ceasefire, Israel remains inflexible and continues to bomb the territory.

“The war will not end until we achieve (our objectives),” which they are “the elimination of Hamas”the return of the hostages and that “Gaza does not pose a threat to Israel,” the Israeli Prime Minister said on Saturday, Benjamin Netanyahu.

But not everyone in Israel supports this line. At night Protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv to demand the government’s resignation and early elections.

In this context, the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenwhose country is Israel’s main ally, takes a new tour of the region.

On Sunday he met with King Abdullah II of Jordan, who has asked the United States for help, according to a statement pressure Israel for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, warning of “catastrophic repercussions” if hostilities continue.

Blinken said it was “imperative to maximize humanitarian aid to Gaza.” He also called avoid a regional conflagration, work for “lasting” peace and “move towards the creation of a Palestinian state”.

to exist fears of regional contagion due to the almost daily gunfire between the Lebanese Hezbollah, allies of Hamas, and the Israeli forces on the Israeli-Lebanese border.

Attacks on military bases of the United States, Israel’s main ally, have also increased in recent weeks in Syria and Iraq. In Yemen, Iran-backed Houthi rebels have stepped up their attacks against shipping in the Red Sea in “support” of Palestinians in Gaza.

After Jordan, Blinken will travel to Qatar, which brokered the late November truce. You’ll end the day in Abu Dhabi first I’m going to Saudi Arabia and Israel on Mondaywhere he teased that he will have conversations that “won’t be easy.”