O Gaza strip This Sunday was a day of relative calm, after the Israeli army announces pause in its operations in southern Gaza area allow more humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory.
After eight months of intense and incessant bombing, Link lived one day “almost peaceful compared to previous days”Civil Defense spokesman Mohamed Basal told AFP.
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However, he reported “some bombings” against several neighborhoods Gaza Cityin the north, and artillery fire in Rafain the far south of the Palestinian territory, where the Israeli army began a ground offensive in early May.
However, the Israeli army noted that despite “the tactical pause”, “There is no cessation of hostilities in southern Gaza and operations in Rafah continue”.
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The break “will take place from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm (5:00 am to 4:00 pm GMT) every day and until further notice,” in the area from Kerem Shalom, a border crossing in southern Israel, to the Salahedin highway in Gaza and towards north of Palestinian territory, the army said.
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This decision was taken to allow a “increase in the volume of humanitarian aid entering Gaza”after discussions with the UN and other organizations, he indicated in a statement.
“Concrete measures”
The UN said that “celebrate” this measure, but requested that this “lead to new concrete measures” to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid, said Jens Laerke, spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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The international organization has repeatedly warned that it is difficult to reach aid to the population, which suffers from shortages of water, food and medicine due to the fighting and Israeli restrictions.
O Gaza stripbesieged by Israelis mired in a serious humanitarian crisis, where 75% of its 2.4 million inhabitants have had to be displaced by war and the population is threatened with starvation, according to the UN.
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“The person who made the decision to institute a pause while our soldiers were falling in combat is evil and stupid.”denounced the far-right Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir.
The Israeli army announced on Saturday the death of eight of its soldiers in Gaza when the armored vehicle in which they were traveling “He was hit by a bomb explosion” in Rafah, two soldiers in northern Gaza and another who succumbed to his injuries.
Source: Elcomercio
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