More than 19 months after his war against Gaza, Israel shows few signs that he is yielding. Last week showed the opposite, an intensification of violence through the besieged Palestinian territory, by killing hundreds of thousands of thousands of thousands of what comes.
It was a week when US President Donald Trump visited the Middle East, visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. There was hope that a kind of ceasefire agreement would be announced, or that the United States exerted more pressure on Israel to come seriously to the negotiating table. This was particularly the case after Hamas published an American-Israeli captive on Monday without asking anything in exchange.
In the end, none of this has happened, Trump returning to his idea of American participation in the future administration of everything that remains of Gaza, while recognizing that the Palestinians were hungry.
Israel also intercepted a number of missiles pulled by the Houthi rebels from Yemen, before attacking Yemen itself on Friday.
Allows you to look more closely at a week that devastated Gaza and left the Palestinians there even more abandoned.
How many Palestinians were killed in Gaza this week?
According to figures compiled by Tel Aviv Tribune, at least 370 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since Sunday. Violence was particularly deadly in the second half, medical sources reporting the murder of at least 100 Palestinians on Friday and 143 on Thursday. Many of those who were killed were women and children.
These are some of the worst death tasks of a day since the start of the war in October 2023.
The killings have made more than 53,000 people in the total number of deaths by the Gaza Ministry of Health, although the number of deaths of the Office of the Government of the Territoire des Média is now more than 61,700, because it includes thousands of Palestinians still under the rubble that are presumed dead.
The Israeli attacks have targeted the entire Gaza Strip, with a particular accent on the North. Hospitals have also been bombed several times by Israel.
What is he doing to alleviate the hunger crisis in Gaza?
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza was caused by the full blockade of Israel from the entry of all foods and drugs in strip since March 2, a decision it made when the ceasefire was still underway, which goes against international law.
A report published Monday by the Integrated Food Security Classification Initiative (IPC) said that the Gaza Strip was “still confronted with a critical risk of famine”, with half a million people facing famine and 93% of its population more than 2 million people at serious risks.
People are already dying of hunger – Gaza authorities said last week that 57 people died after famine.
Trump recognized that “many people are hungry” in Gaza and said that the United States “would make him take care of”, but provided little details. The United States has supported a new organization called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation which, she said, will begin to work in Gaza by the end of the month.
But the plan has been rejected by the United Nations and other humanitarian groups, which say that the plan would lead to more trips for the Palestinians in Gaza, as it would only disperse in certain regions of Gaza, and establishes a dangerous precedent for the delivery of aid to Warzones.
The UN reiterated that he has the ability to provide help to Gaza, but that he is prevented from doing so by Israel. He says he has enough help to deliver to feed all the Palestinians in Gaza for four months, if Israel authorizes his trucks.
What do Palestinians call?
The Palestinians of Gaza told last week’s horrors, desperately calling the world to act and stop the bombing of Israel.
In the refugee camp of Jabalia de Northern Gaza, one of the largest zones, a civilian had a simple message – “either kill us or let us live”.
“All (strikes) were targeting civilians. All the houses are bombed – everything has gone,” Ahmed Mansour told Tel Aviv Tribune. “What is a person supposed to do? They all make a joke of us. I head to the coast now. We have been moved more than 50 times – either killing ourselves or letting us live.”
Taher al -Nununu, a senior Hamas official, also called on Friday in the United States to exert more pressure on Israel to open the passages to Gaza and “allow the immediate entry of humanitarian aid – food, medicine and fuel – to hospitals of the Gaza Strip”.
What does Israel want?
The Israeli government has clearly indicated that it is not willing to accept an agreement that would end the war in exchange for the release of all Israeli captives still organized in Gaza, despite generalized national support for such an agreement.
Instead, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks about the total victory against Hamas, although it is difficult to see what it would cause.
Instead, the war goes out, and Netanyahu said on Monday that preparations were continuing for “an intensification of the fighting”. Last week, he said that Israel was planning Gaza’s “total conquest”.
Trump left the Middle East this week without a convenient ceasefire agreement, saying only: “We will discover it very soon” when asked if an agreement was in place for the return of the captives of Israel.
Meanwhile, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported that Israel’s position was “rigid” and that the United States had “lost all interest”. One source told the newspaper that American envoy Steve Witkoff was “no longer involved”.
“He waits to hear what we want, and as we don’t want anything, he has nothing more to do,” said the source.
