The Israeli armed forces are launching attacks across the Gaza Strip, intensifying their shelling of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Palestinian enclave, while further increasing their pressure on the southern strip and the town of Rafah. And the exodus of thousands of displaced people is peaking.
By Athena Papakosta
On Monday, Israeli tanks stormed the Jambaliya refugee camp, which is home to more than 100,000 civilians. They had preceded heavy shelling on Sunday mornings. As reported by the Israeli Armed Forces, Hamas is at this point trying to regroup and launch new attacks. But Israeli strikes were also recorded in Zeitoun, east of Gaza City.
At the same time, Israel has ordered new evacuations in town of Rafa, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, on the closed border with Egypt. The Israeli army is preparing to expand its military operations in the area with 300,000 civilians forced to be displaced again due to heavy shelling.
Egypt issued its strictest announcement to date. In more detail, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasizes that Cairo intends to participate, officially, in the case brought by South Africa, which asked the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) to order Israel to withdraw from Rafah, accusing it of acts of genocide against of the Palestinians.
The United Nations has warned against a widespread operation, stressing that it would lead to a massive humanitarian disaster, with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issuing a fresh call for an immediate ceasefire. “A truce will only be the beginning. The road will be long to recover from the destruction and trauma of this war”, he emphasized.
The American president himself, Joe Biden has already warned that if the Tel Aviv goes ahead with his plans for a full-scale attack on Rafah, then US military aid to Israel will be cut off.
For his part, the British Foreign Minister, David Cameron, giving an interview to the British Sky News network, noted that, although London does not support an Israeli ground military operation in Rafah, he made it clear that he is not against ending British arms sales to Israel . In fact, he justified his stance by explaining that such a thing would strengthen Hamas while simultaneously weakening Israel.
A ceasefire could be possible “tomorrow”, the president of the United States emphasized on Saturday night if and only if Hamas released the hostages it is holding.
Tel Aviv seems determined to persist in achieving the goal of destroying the Islamist Palestinian organization. However, tens of thousands of citizens are shouting “no” for one more night. On Saturday night, they filled the streets of Tel Aviv demanding the immediate resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the return of the hostages.
In an interview with the American NBC News network, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stressed that Israel does not have a “credible plan” to protect the 1.4 million displaced civilians in the Gaza Strip. He also warned that the Israeli Armed Forces launching their military operation in Rafah will not succeed in neutralizing Hamas citing as an example the return of its fighters to places from which Tel Aviv claimed to have removed it.
However, Benjamin Netanyahu during his Remembrance Day speech yesterday vowed to continue the war until victory in memory of all those killed in it.
At the moment, indirect negotiations for a ceasefire and the release of hostages have reached an impasse, and the death toll since the start of the Israeli military operation in Gaza has now exceeded 35,000, with Tel Aviv announcing that its operations 620 Israeli soldiers have lost their lives.
Source :Skai
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