Gas trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Monday following the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad armed group, and it was announced that dozens of Palestinians, including children, were killed in the three-day clash.
Tankers entered the Kerem Shalom border crossing in the southern Palestinian territories, which has been under Israeli blockade for more than 15 years.
Life in Gaza came to a standstill, and the only power plant in the region had to shut down on Saturday due to lack of fuel, after Israel closed the borders of the 362 square kilometer enclave of 2.3 million Palestinians.
Cogat, the Israeli Defense Ministry’s service monitoring civilian activities in Israel, announced that the border crossings between the Gaza Strip and the Hebrew state, which were closed by Israel on Tuesday (2), were reopened this Monday for “humanitarian reasons”. Palestinian lands.
“Return to routine will depend on the evolution of the situation and respect for safety”, concludes the note.
Following the start of the ceasefire mediated by Egypt, the historical intermediary between Israel and the Palestinians, the Hebrew State also announced the resumption of rail traffic and allowed its citizens living near the border towns with the Palestinian territories to leave their shelters. antiaircraft.
Medicine and electricity
The deal went into effect late Sunday, but Israel and Islamic Jihad reserved the right to respond in case of further aggression.
US President Joe Biden praised the ceasefire and thanked his Egyptian comrade Abdel Fattah Al Sisi for his country’s role as mediator. Biden also called for an investigation into the circumstances of the deaths of civilian victims, which he called “tragedies”.
UN envoy to the Middle East Tor Wennesland congratulated the agreement but reminded in a message on Twitter that “the situation is very fragile”.
The Palestinian group said the ceasefire agreement included “Egypt’s commitment to act in favor of the release of the two prisoners” of Islamic Jihad organized by Israel.
Gaza’s health ministry said 17 Palestinians, nine of them children, were killed in Israeli attacks on Sunday.
Since Friday, the latest bulletin by the regional ministry, led by the Islamist group Hamas, says “44 Palestinians, including 15 children, have been martyred and 360 injured.”
Three people have been injured by rocket fire in Israel since Friday. The military said hundreds of shells were fired into the country from Gaza, but the vast majority were blocked.
Israeli authorities said some Palestinians were killed during Islamic Jihad’s failed attempts to launch rockets into the territory of the Hebrew state.
The director of the Shifa hospital in Gaza said the organization urgently needs medicine and electricity.
preventive strike
Israel presented its first attacks on Friday as a “preventive” operation against Islamic Jihad, which the government says is planning an imminent attack.
The Iranian-backed armed group, which is on the US and European Union list of terrorist organizations, fired hundreds of rockets at Israel in response to the bombings.
Taysir al Jabari and Khaled Mansur, top Islamic Jihad military commanders in Gaza, and several fighters from the group died.
Israel has also arrested 40 members of the armed group in the occupied West Bank in recent days.
This conflict was the most violent in the region since the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement that has ruled Gaza since 2007, in May 2021.
The death toll in last year’s 11-day war was 260 Palestinians, including fighters, and 14 Israelis, including one soldier.
Hamas, which has fought against Israel several times, stayed out of the hostilities over the weekend.
source: Noticias
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