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Israel continued its preparations on Sunday for an offensive in the north Linkafter giving residents an additional period of time to evacuate the area the day before, a week after an unprecedented attack of Hamas in its territory. Israel responded to the October 7th incursion by that Palestinian Islamic group, in power in the Gaza Strip, with a massive bombardment of the territory, from which Hamas continues to fire rockets. Pending its ground offensive, the Israeli army on Friday asked civilians in the north of the enclave – 1.1 million people out of a total population of 2.4 million – to move south, and urged them on Saturday to “not delay”.
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However, an army spokesman said on Saturday night that The ground offensive would not begin on Sunday, for humanitarian reasons.
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More than 1,300 people, most of them civilians, were killed by Hamas commandos, including children, and at least 120 were taken hostage, according to Israeli authorities. Hundreds of people remain missing and bodies continue to be identified.
The Israeli response killed more than 2,200 people, including more than 700 children, in the densely populated and extremely poor Gaza Strip. More than 8,700 people were injured, according to Hamas.
According to the Israeli army, the Israeli operations center Palestinian Islamic movement, Classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union and Israel, it is located in the city of Gaza, north of the enclave.
Several members of the international community expressed their concern about this evacuation of a territory under strict siege. since the Hamas attacks.
On Saturday night, the American president, Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States was working with the UN and Middle Eastern countries “to ensure that innocent civilians have access to water, food and healthcare”.
He also assured the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbastheir “full support” in their efforts to bring humanitarian aid, “especially in Link”.
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterreshad already called for “immediate” access for aid to that small strip of land, subject to an Israeli blockade since 2006.
Since Friday, thousands of residents flee by all meanswith their belongings hastily piled into trailers, carts, motorcycles and cars, across the ruins.
On Saturday night, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the forced evacuation of more than 2,000 patients to crowded facilities in southern Gaza could be “the equivalent of a death sentence.”
“Will continue”
The Israeli army announced on Saturday night that it had found “corpses” of hostages kidnapped by Hamas during attacks in the Gaza Strip, without giving further details.
Hamas reported that 22 hostages were killed in Israeli bombings.
Netanyahu visited Israeli troops near the Gaza Strip on Saturday. “Are you prepared for what’s coming? It will continue,” he told several soldiers.
Faced with the risk of a regional conflagration, U.S announced that same day the sending of a second aircraft carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean “to deter hostile actions against Israel,” according to US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
“War crimes”
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday accused Israel of “war crimes” in Gaza and stated that he refuses to allow Palestinians to be “displaced.”
For its part, the Palestinian movement is regularly highlighted by Israel of using civilians as human shields.
Israel also announced the deaths of two Hamas military commanders, who, according to the army, are responsible for the October 7th attack.
Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday that it was suspending talks on possible normalization with Israel and called for an “immediate ceasefire.”
Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah al Sisi, agreed on the need to authorize the entry of emergency humanitarian aid into Gaza, according to a statement from the government of Brazil, the country that holds the presidency of the Council of UN Security.
Egypt controls the only entrance to Link which is not under Israeli control, the Rafah border crossing, currently closed.
northern border
Tension is also high on the northern border of the Israelwhere the Israeli army announced on Saturday that he had killed “several terrorists” who were trying to infiltrate.
A Reuters journalist was killed and six others from AFP, Reuters and Al-Jazeera were injured on Friday in attacks in the south of the country. Lebanon.
The Israeli military on Saturday lamented the deaths and said it was “doing research”, without explicitly acknowledging their responsibility. The Lebanese army accused him of being the cause.
On the other hand, Israel declared that it attacked Syria with artillery on Saturday night, following aerial warnings in the part of the Golan Heights annexed by Israel in 1967.
An NGO also announced that an “Israeli attack” hit Aleppo airport (north), injuring five people.
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