The war in Gaza turns 5 months old with a humanitarian catastrophe and a stalemate in negotiations

This Thursday they were fulfilled five months of war in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli government and its troops unleashed an “unprecedented” humanitarian catastrophe, according to several NGOs, following the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians, the internal displacement of 85% of the population and the general lack of food and drinking water. Added to the photo Negotiations stopped for a trucewith Hamas abandon the talks in El Cario Until next week.

The war broke out on October 7 after a Hamas attack on Israel that left some dead 1,200 dead and 250 kidnapped.

The Hamas delegation left Cairo on Thursday, where since Sunday it had been participating in negotiations for a truce with Israel in Gaza, which will resume next week, according to media close to the Egyptian government.

Without agreement

The representation of the Palestinian group has left Egypt without leaving anything on the table.

Everything indicates that it will be difficult for a pact between Hamas and Israel to be realized before the start of Ramadan on March 10th. holy month for Muslims.

Palestinian sources familiar with the talks confirmed that the Hamas delegation left the Egyptian capital on Wednesday evening and is now awaiting a response from Israel.

These Palestinian sources, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, said the negotiations reached a “dangerous turning point” which jeopardizes the possibility of its success and the reaching of a definitive agreement.

Regarding one of the points of the draft, again according to sources since Israel and Hamas have not officially commented on this information, the Palestinian group believes that the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip it is “unclear and ambiguous” because Israel proposes to withdraw to the east of the enclave without specifying the locations, while the Islamic group demands it through specific and clear areas.

As for the ceasefire, the source underlined this Israel provided no guarantees on this request of Hamas and all Palestinian factions.

At these meetings in Cairo Israel did not participate after Hamas said it could not supply it – it claimed, due to logistical problems caused by the war – a list of the names of the hostages still alive.According to some rumors, some of the 134 prisoners are in the hands of other groups or militias incommunicado in Gaza, and of them More than thirty would have already died, which Hamas attributes to Israeli bombings.

Gaza: humanitarian crisis and over 30 thousand deaths

The number of victims in the Gaza Strip from the Israeli military offensive continues to increase and has already reached the limit 30,800 dead and 72,298 injuredthe enclave’s Ministry of Health reported Thursday, after five months of war it caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

“In the last 24 hours, the Israeli occupation committed nine massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 83 deaths and 142 injuries,” the Hamas-controlled ministry said.

Thus, in 153 days of war, In the enclave there have been at least 30,800 dead and 72,298 injured70% of whom are children and women, as well as approx 7,000 missing under the rubble and other points previously inaccessible to ambulances, the ministry said.

According to the official Palestinian Wafa news agency, at least 35 people were killed in airstrikes on houses in Deir Al Balah, the center of the enclave.

Additionally, tanks and artillery vehicles fired on civilians in Gaza City while they waited for the trucks with the flour, leaving three dead and 15 injured, he said.

Hungry and thirsty

Survivors in Gaza, including two million displaced people -almost the entire population- continue to resist an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, between the widespread destruction of homes, the collapse of hospitals, the outbreak of epidemics and the scarcity of drinking water and food that has reached famine levels.

At least 20 Gazans have died in the last two weeks from malnutrition and dehydration, all of them minors except one 72-year-old man, Health said.

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 81% of homes in Gaza do not have access to drinking water, Internally displaced people are the most affected.

“The increase in cases of watery, bloody diarrhea can be directly attributed to the lack of potable water, which represents a significant public health challenge” in Gaza, the UN humanitarian agency (OCHA) said.

The agency underlined that “the food safety situation remains extremely serious, especially in the north Gaza,” where “people feed their children animal fodder and wild foods, which can have health consequences,” such as malnutrition, nutritional deficiencies, toxicity or food-borne illnesses.

“This underlines the urgent need for humanitarian assistance and intervention to address the underlying causes of famine and ensure access to adequate food supplies,” OCHA highlighted.

Israel keeps the Strip blocked from air, land and sea, hinder the entry of humanitarian aid provided by the international community.

Given the limited access by land, especially in the north of the enclave where roads have been destroyed, Humanitarian aid from the sky has increased in recent weeks, although many of the packages They fell into the sea and also on the Israeli side.

Since the war began on October 7, they have targeted the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan and France They made 25 jumps from the air, with more than 750 humanitarian aid packages, according to Israel, which is increasingly criticized for rejecting a ceasefire that would ease the crisis in the enclave.

Gaza uninhabitable

Desperate from hunger, the inhabitants of Gaza Several trucks with humanitarian aid were looted en masse who managed to enter the enclave, and in a recent incident that resulted in more than 100 deaths, The Israeli army opened fire on the crowd.

This was reported Thursday by the Foreign Ministry of the Palestinian National Authority, which governs small areas of the occupied West Bank Israel carries out “genocide” in Gaza through “cases of poisoning among the civilian population, especially children and sick people, due to the spread of toxins deriving from lethal and prohibited weapons that Israel uses above and below the ground, in the grass and in the air.

“The entire Gaza Strip it has been transformed into an uninhabitable area for human life,” he summed up, expressing “astonishment at the failure of the international community not only to stop the war and protect Palestinian civilians, but also to ensure safe passage for humanitarian convoys in a safe manner.”

Since the Hamas attack on October 7, the Israeli army has deployed all its power by air, land and sea in the Strip, without any pause other than a ceasefire at the end of November, which lasted a week and which allowed the release of 105 hostages in exchange for the release of 240 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.

Despite international pressure for a ceasefire aimed at alleviating the conditions of the inhabitants of Gaza and the release of the hostages taken by Hamas, the negotiations appear to have reached a stalemate.