The fighting continues in Khan Younès, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are massing, in the south of the territory. At the same time, Israeli soldiers continue to conquer the city of Gaza in the north.
Fierce and deadly fighting continues this Thursday, December 7 in the Gaza Strip between Hamas and the Israeli army, which took the large town of Khan Younes in the south of the enclave, where it is tracking down the architect of the bloody October 7 attack against Israel, Yahya Sinwar. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Wednesday evening that Israeli forces “surrounded the house of (Yahya) Sinwar”. The leader of the Islamist movement in Gaza “hides underground”in Hamas tunnels, according to an army spokesperson.
An Israeli civilian was killed Thursday in northern Israel by an anti-tank missile fired from southern Lebanon, the Israeli army and emergency services announced. The strike hit the car in which the victim, a 60-year-old man, was traveling, near the town of Matat, not far from the Lebanese border, the same sources announced, with the Israeli army adding that “more shots from Lebanon towards Israel” were recorded on Thursday. The Israeli army said that helicopters, tanks and artillery were responding in the direction of this fire.
“If Hezbollah chooses to gamble on war in general, then it will divert the flames of war from Gaza and Khan Yunis to the cities and south of Lebanon”commented on the attack Benyamin Netanyahu, in a video published on social networks.
Israel will authorize the delivery of a “minimum fuel surcharge” in the Gaza Strip. A decision “necessary to avoid a humanitarian collapse and the emergence of epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip”, announced the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the night of Wednesday December 6 to Thursday December 7. Fuel is essential to operate health and communications infrastructure.
UN chief warns of “total collapse of public order soon” in Gaza. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used Article 99 of the United Nations Charter to warn the Security Council that “the constant bombings of the Israeli armed forces” could make “even limited humanitarian aid is impossible”and called for a ceasefire. A request which constitutes “support for the terrorist organization Hamas”replied the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Hamas, in power in Gaza, puts forward a death toll of more than 16,000 Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children, according to figures that are still unverifiable. On the Israeli side, nearly 1,200 people were killed, mainly civilians, massacred on October 7.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging Israel to do more to protect civilians in Gaza. In a phone call with Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told him that Israel must do more to protect civilians during its army’s offensive in southern Syria. Gaza strip. He urges the Israeli minister to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. He took the opportunity to congratulate the Jewish state which authorized, during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the delivery of a small additional fuel to the Palestinian enclave.
The head of UN humanitarian operations announced on Thursday that he was seeing “promising signs” of the opening “next” of the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, ensuring a second access to humanitarian aid. An opening of this crossing, which would be added to that of Rafah on the border between Egypt and Gaza, “would change the very nature of access for humanitarian aid” which the Palestinian territory desperately needs, Martin Griffiths told a press briefing in Geneva.