Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized to new round of talks in Doha and Cairo to negotiate a truce in Gaza, his office indicated this on Friday, after contacts appeared to have stalled and when a UN Security Council resolution called for a “Cease fire immediately” on the Strip, approved this Monday.
“Benjamin Netanyahu met with the director of the Mossad (the foreign secret service) and the director of the Shin Bet (the domestic intelligence), and approved a new round of negotiations in the next few days in Doha and Cairo (… ), to move forward,” his office said in a statement.
Since the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Strip on Monday, the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas and Israel they blamed each other of the inability to reach a truce agreement.
Qatar, which has mediated between Israel and Hamas, said Tuesday that talks on a truce and the release of hostages continue, but the parties and mediators They offered little information since.
Image of a survivor rescued from the rubble after Israeli air strikes, in the city of Rafah. Photo: XinhuaThe war began on October 7 with Hamas’ surprise attack in Israel, which left 1,160 dead, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli sources.
According to Israel, About 250 people were kidnapped that day by Hamas and 130 of them remain hostages in Gaza, 33 of whom are said to have died.
In retaliation, Israel promises to “annihilate” Hamas and launched a vast operation that left at least 32,623 deaths, mostly women and minors, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health. And she dragged the Strip into a hell of devastation and hunger.
The bombings continue
Meanwhile, Israel continues its bombing campaign.
This Friday it bombed the Gaza Strip again. The Health Ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said Friday morning that fighting and shelling, especially in Rafah, had caused “dozens of deaths.”
In that city in the south of the Strip, considered by Israel to be the last stronghold of Hamas, 1.5 million people are crowded together, more displaced due to violence in other parts of the territory.
According to the UN, the conflict has left this small territory in ruins and its 2.4 million inhabitants on the brink of famine.
“There is no other place in the world where such a significant number of people are facing imminent famine,” X Matthew Hollingworth, head of the World Food Program (WFP) for the Palestinian territories, said on Thursday.
The ICJ ordered aid to be sent
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ highest court, based in The Hague, on Thursday ordered Israel to ensure “without delay” the unhindered provision of “basic services and urgent humanitarian aid” to Gaza .
Following a lawsuit by South Africa, the ICJ In January he called on Israel to prevent any acts of “genocide” to Gaza and allow the entry of humanitarian aid. Israel called the accusations “scandalous.”
Palestinians among the rubble left by an Israeli attack in Rafah. Photo: SAID KHATIB / AFPHamas welcomed the ICJ ruling and called for it to be implemented “immediately”.
The war has caused a humanitarian catastrophe in the small territory and land aid arrives only in dribs and drabs. Several countries drop food by parachuteespecially in the north of the Strip, where the situation is desperate.
Source: Clarin
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