Two months to the day after the Hamas attack, the Israeli army continues its ground offensive in southern Gaza, where the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate. On the Israeli-Lebanese border, tension rises a notch after the death of an Israeli civilian.
The Reuters news agency reports that Israeli tanks fought their way towards the center of Khan Younis on Sunday, as part of the Israeli ground offensive in the southern Gaza Strip. Since the resumption of hostilities on December 1, more than 3,500 targets have been bombed by aircraft in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army announced on Sunday. Since the start of the fighting, the total has reached, according to her, 22,000 bombings.
According to the IDF, Hamas leaders are in this town… But it is also where thousands of Gazans found refuge at the start of Israeli strikes last October. According to the Islamist movement, nearly 18,000 Palestinians were killed and 49,500 others injured in Israeli attacks.
Mediation efforts to secure a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip continue despite Israeli bombardments that “reduce the possibilities” of a positive resultsaid Mohammed Ben Abderrahmane Al Thani, the Qatari Prime Minister, on Sunday December 10. “Our efforts, deployed by the State of Qatar jointly with our partners, continue. We will not give up“, assured Mr. Al Thani.
Israel said Hamas still held 117 hostages, as well as the remains of 20 people killed in the October 7 attack. For its part, Hamas assures that no hostage will come out “alive” of Gaza without exchange.
“No prisoner or detainee (…) has been and will not be released outside the framework of the conditional exchange that we announced at the start of the battle”warned Abou Obeida, spokesperson for the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.“Neither the Zionist enemy nor its supporters can recover their prisoners alive without exchanging them and accepting the terms of the resistance and Al-Qassam”he continued, adding that the movement’s fighters had not “no choice but to fight to face the holocaust perpetrated by the enemy in order to break the will of (their) people”. “We call on the fighters of our people everywhere, the free men of our nation and those who reject occupation to mobilize to respond to the enemy by fighting and demonstrating“added Abou Obeida.
Around a hundred trucks loaded with humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip on Saturday through the Rafah crossing point, announced the Palestinian Red Crescent. They contained “food, water, emergency aid, medical equipment and medicine”he wrote on X on Sunday, adding that 3,499 trucks have entered the enclave since October 21.
The organization also says it evacuated eleven critically injured people from Al-Ahli hospital in central Gaza, and blames the death of one of them on Israeli forces, which it says delayed the departure of the convoy.
The executive council of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted by consensus on Sunday a resolution calling for the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. While the United Nations Security Council failed on Friday to demand a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, due to the veto of the United States, the thirty-four member states of the WHO executive council are all calling At “immediate, sustainable and unimpeded passage of humanitarian aid” in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army reports new rocket attacks from southern Lebanon on Sunday eveningto which she said she had responded, and accused Hezbollah of putting the lives of the peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon in danger by opening fire near their positions.
“One of the rockets was fired 20 meters from a United Nations compound in southern Lebanon. In recent days, other rockets have been fired in this area towards the State of Israel”she said in a press release accompanied by an infographic. “In doing so, the terrorist organization endangers the lives of UNIFIL soldiers and continues to systematically violate United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701. The head of the mission and the commander of the UNIFIL force have been informed of the incident”.
