Water is hard to find in Gaza, and Tony Blair is back in Israel
Hamas in Gaza City: Why the U.S. is requesting a Second Naakba? Israeli response to a Gaza City mass attack
The depopulation of Gaza would be manifestly inhumane and a violation of international law. The advisers of the president should ask themselves how it can be good for the U.S. to expel Palestinians from their homes. Such a cataclysm would be a second nakba, or catastrophe, as the displacement of 1948 is called. The United States would work with Israel in creating a future for the Palestinians that would allow them to be killed or dispossessed.
The Gaza Health Ministry stated that 2,329 Palestinians have died and more than 9,714 have been wounded in Israeli strikes.
The army said they were in formation to strike Gaza City, as they massed on the border ready for a ground invasion.
“Gaza City is where the focus and the hub of Hamas activities is, that is where most of the commanders are, and their ability to operate,” Conricus said Saturday night.
The IDF on Sunday again urged Gaza residents to move from the northern part of Gaza to the south and said that it would not carry out any operations along the evacuation route from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. local time.
More than 1,300 people were dead in southern Israel when Hamas launched an attack on October 7.
“Lots of people are waiting here in front of the Palestinian gate. They all are waiting to get out of here, but the Palestinians are not here to open the gate and the Egyptians are not there yet too from the Egyptian side. We are all waiting, what is going to happen? Nobody has any information. she said.
One person was killed and three others were wounded, in a northern Israeli village near Lebanon, where strikes have been exchanged across the border.
Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Secretary of State of the United States and the Gaza Campaign: Are Americans at the Crossing Borders Responsible for the Gaza Conflict?
According to the UNRWA there were over a quarter of a million people in shelters in Gaza in the past 24 hours and most of them were seeking refuge in schools.
In a slow and uncertain process, Americans who desire to leave Israel are using planes and boats. The State Department says flights are leaving from Ben Gurion International Airport on Monday and Tuesday.
People of U.S. origin were told to report to the Haifa port on Sunday for the chance to board a U.S.-organized ship that was bound for Crete. Crowds showed up, and officials told some of them to come back.
The Israeli military says Hamas is “responsible for the humanitarian consequences” of the violence and chaos that followed last weekend’s attack and the ensuing evacuation order.
People injured in Israel’s bombardment, as well as people who are disabled or elderly, were left behind because they couldn’t find a ride out of the north.
Israel says it will not stop its attacks until it has completely destroyed Hamas. “Every Hamas member is a dead man,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week.
The U.S has already sent a warship to the eastern Mediterranean — a measure it says is aimed at deterrence. It has sent small diameter bombs to Israel and is also sending more missile to the Iron Dome, which intercepts most Hamas rockets fired at Israel.
The secretary of state returned to Israel on Monday and called for aid to be allowed to enter Gaza.
The border closed on Tuesday because of Israel’s airstrikes on the Gaza side. Israel says there’s no cease-fire deal in place to open the crossing; the U.S. says it’s working on it.
Even if the crossing does reopen, it’s an open question as to how the aid would be distributed. Roads leading to Rafah’s crossing have been destroyed, posing a serious challenge to any efforts to distribute fuel and water.
“We’re putting in place — with the United Nations, with Egypt, with Israel, with others — the mechanism by which to get the assistance in and to get it to the people who need it,” he said.
There are trucks at the southern border of Gaza that are waiting to cross into Egypt through the Rafah crossing to bring some relief to the area.
Losing Electricity Would Make Gazan Hospitals Afraid of Many More Intruders: A Case Study of the Gazan Emergency Medical Emergency Services
Losing electricity would plunge the hospitals into a new crisis as life support and other systems are shut down — even as more of the injured and dead continue to be brought in.
Electricity is dangerously scarce: Israel shut off supply to Gaza’s main grid five days ago, and as hospitals cope with thousands of wounded people, fuel for generators is running low.
