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Israel was under international pressure this Wednesday to weigh the risks of a ground operation in Link without guaranteeing the protection of the civilian population, harassed by bombings in response to Hamas’ lethal attack on October 7th. The Gaza Strip is in a critical humanitarian situation and its hospitals are facing a “total collapse”, warned Palestinian doctors, who denounce the lack of fuel and the shortage of medicines. Israel also keeps the territory of 362 km2 and 2.4 million inhabitants under strict siege and has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers in front of it, with a view to a possible invasion to “annihilate” the Islamic movement Hamas.

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The Palestinian group, which governs Link since 2007, it launched an attack against Israel on October 7. The attack, the deadliest since the creation of the Hebrew state in 1948, left more than 1,400 deadaccording to Israeli authorities.

The militants also captured more than 200 people, who were taken to Gaza as hostages. Four of them were released in recent days.

According to Hamas, more than 6,500 people were killed in Israeli bombings.

Al-Jazeera correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh mourns over the body of one of his three sons who died along with his wife in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat camp. (Photo by Majdi FATHI/AFP). (MAJDI FATHI/)

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuadmitted for the first time that He must provide “answers” ​​to the security flaws highlighted in the Hamas attack, but that “will happen later”.

At the time, ““We are preparing a ground attack.”highlighted in a television message. “I cannot say when, how or how many [efectivos] there won’t even be the considerations we are taking into account” to launch the invasionhe added.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, warned from Egypt that a “massive” ground operation would be a “mistake” because it would “put the lives” of civilians at risk “without protecting Israel in the long term.”

Beside him, his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fatah al-Sisi agreed that a “ground invasion” of Gaza would cause “many, many civilian casualties.”

Even the American presidentJoe Biden, while not in favor of a ceasefire or asking Netanyahu to postpone an incursion, He emphasized that Israel must do “everything possible” to protect civilians.

The ground operation was announced as imminent, but is being postponed. The media and analysts attribute this delay to international pressure, disagreements between politicians and the military and the issue of hostages in Link.

The World Health Organization (WHO) called Hamas provide proof of life of the hostages and release them “for humanitarian and health reasons”.

An injured man holds an injured child undergoing treatment in the trauma room of the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, following an Israeli bombardment. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS/AFP). (MAHMUD HAMS/)

“Total collapse”

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) indicated that may be forced to cease its activities in Gaza tonight due to lack of fuel.

Water, electricity and food reserves are also running out in the territory.

The UN estimates that more than a third of the Strip’s 35 hospitals are out of service due to damage suffered in bombings or due to lack of fuel.

“Hospitals are in a state of total collapse,” warned Mohammed Abu Selmeya, director of the Shifa hospital, the largest in Gaza.

“More than 90% of medicines and products were sold out”, warned the AFP, highlighting the urgency of obtaining fuel for the generators, which are essential for the operation of the establishment.

Humanitarian aid began to arrive little by little Link, although it does not include the precious fuel. Since Saturday, only 70 trucks have crossed the Rafah crossing, on the border with Egypt.

The UN considers that at least 100 per day are needed and requires the urgent supply of fuel to power hospital generators, pump and purify water and allow the circulation of trucks.

But Israel refuses, claiming it would benefit Hamas.

Once generators stop working, hospitals “will become morgues,” the Red Cross warned.

Ahmad Abdul Hadi, an orthopedic surgeon at Nasser Hospital, told AFP he had to operate on several injured people without anesthesia.

“There are not enough anesthetic products”, but “the injured are suffering a lot, so we can’t wait to operate on them”, he explained.

Regional tensions on the rise

The Israeli military reported that it struck “several terrorist infrastructures” of the Islamic movement on Wednesday. Hamas, in turn, indicated that at least 700 people died in one day in Gaza.

The conflict is causing tensions in the occupied West Bank, where more than a hundred Palestinians have been killed in Israeli army operations since the start of the war, according to the Ramallah-based Ministry of Health.

There has also been an increase in attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians. These attacks must “stop now”, said Biden.

Tensions also extended to the border with Lebanon, with daily exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and the Islamic movement Hezbollah.

On Wednesday night, the Israeli army said it had bombed positions in Lebanon, from where a surface-to-air missile had been launched shortly before at one of its drones.

The foreign ministers of Turkey and Qatar, as well as Queen Rania of Jordan, on Wednesday accused the international community of applying a “double standard” in its response to the conflict.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced he was canceling his plans to travel to Israel. Israel, in turn, criticized him for describing the Islamic militiamen as “liberators who protect their land”.

Source: Elcomercio