Hamas rejects humanitarian corridor proposed by Egypt: “It would force our people to abandon their homeland”

Hamas, which controls Gaza and has been at war with Israel for six days, rejected a proposal for a humanitarian corridor made by Egypt because it “would force the Palestinian people to abandon their homeland” and would imply a new displacement and search for refuge, said a source. the Islamic group declared to EFE today.

He added that Hamas continues to demand “access to essential supplies and goods, such as fuel or electricity, anything that guarantees” the 2.3 million Palestinians in the enclave “the right to life,” which is “a constant demand of the group”. , while Gaza is on the brink of humanitarian collapse due to harsh bombing and the total Israeli siege that even prevents the entry of food.

“However, opening a safe passage to force our people to abandon their homeland and suffer permanent death is not something that our people and our resistance agree with,” said the member of the Islamic organization, who last Saturday carried out a surprise attack by land, sea and air against Israel, which left more than 1,300 dead and 3,200 injured.

In Gaza, at least 1,350 died and 6,049 were injured by Israeli air strikes, and hospitals are without electricity and with an extreme lack of materials that put their situation to the limit.

At the same time, as EFE found out today, there are around 3,000 people who were displaced today in a hotel in Gaza, where they were left without food or water, while Israel carried out heavy bombings in places such as the city of Rafah, in the south of the coastal enclave adjacent to the border crossing with Egypt.

The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian National Authority today made an urgent appeal to the Red Cross Committee and the international community and asked them to intervene immediately so that medicines and medical supplies can be sent to Gaza for operating rooms, emergency services and units of intensive care.

Health asked for help to “open field hospitals to work and save the lives of the injured, especially women, children and the elderly”, since “the large number of injured currently exceeds the capacity of hospitals in the Gaza Strip”, declared the minister . …of Health, Mai al Kaila.

For its part, today, according to Egyptian security sources, Israel also rejected an Egyptian proposal to create a temporary buffer zone in the Gaza Strip, close to its border, to accommodate displaced people fleeing Israeli bombings.

Negotiations continue between Egypt and the US for the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza and for the transfer of the wounded in need of treatment in Egypt, as well as a truce proposed by the Egyptian authorities, according to the sources, who stated that so far all these proposals were rejected by Israel.

Likewise, the Egyptian Government stated this morning that the Rafah border crossing with Egypt is “open to traffic and has never been closed” since the start of the conflict.

The number of displaced people in the Gaza Strip exceeded 338,000, thus increasing the number of civilians who fled their homes in Palestinian territory in one day by 75,000, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA) reported today. .

Source: Elcomercio

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