Armed and supported by the US, Israel redoubles its offensive in Gaza and rejects international calls for a ceasefire

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75 years ago, on December 10, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris. Months after the creation of the State of Israel and the subsequent Nakba, the catastrophe that led to the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, the United Nations agreed to establish in a single document those human rights that were considered basic. On its 75th anniversary, the 30 articles of the declaration have once again become wet paper in Palestine. “Are witnesses of a nightmare in Gaza,” the UN Human Rights Office has denounced on this tragic birthday. Others 300 people have been murdered in just 24 hours by Israeli bombings there, raising the death toll to nearly 18,000 in two months. In Palestinian land, human rights have disappeared.

“To bring the Universal Declaration to life in Palestine, we need a immediate ceasefirethe release of the hostages and, ultimately, the end of occupation“, guarantee the rights of Palestinians to self-determination and provide justice and equality to the people of both countries of Palestine and Israel,” the UN office has once again insisted in a statement. But the reality on the ground is far from this. horizon of peace and justice. Israel’s relentless bombing continues along with ground operations that have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee the north and center of the enclave into the increasingly overcrowded south. There is no building in Gaza that has not been affected to a greater or lesser extent. Those who have been captured by the Israeli Army have become scenes for the mockery and enjoyment, as shared by young recruits on social networks.

“Empty Gaza of its people”

After the United States vetoed a Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza, all Palestinian factions have called for a strike in the occupied West Bank this Monday. Businesses, banks, schools and universities will adhere to it along with public institutions. He calling is global so that the population expresses to their governments their wishes to pressure them to end the war in the enclave. “What we are seeing in Gaza is not simply the killing of innocent people and the destruction of their livelihoods, but a systematic effort to empty Gaza of its people,” said the Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, at the Doha Forum. This complaint has also been added Philippe Lazzarinithe head of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, on the brink of collapse in Gaza.

For his part, the Prime Minister of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, has thanked the president of the United States, Joe Biden, for providing “important ammunition” to continue the war and his veto in the Security Council. The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenhas defended the emergency sale to Israel of almost 14,000 rounds of ammunition for tanks and has called for quick congressional approval of more than $100 billion in aid for Israel, Ukraine and other national security priorities. Meanwhile, the Israeli leader has rejected international calls to end the war in Gaza, which he considers inconsistent with supporting the war objective of eliminating Hamas. In a phone call, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his concern about “the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.”

white phosphorus

On the other side of the border with Lebanonthe green fields and forests of the country of cedars have once again suffered the attack of Israeli artillery, leaving spectacular images on the magnitude of the bombings. More and more attacks are getting closer to areas full of civilians and key infrastructure in some southern villages that have not yet been evacuated. Furthermore, the Israeli Army continues to use white phosphorus on Lebanese territory in violation of international humanitarian law, affecting human lives and key crops for the economy of many families. During Sunday morning, the Lebanese militia Hezbollahan ally of Hamas, has claimed responsibility for the infiltration of planes and the launching of rockets into Israeli territory, which injured several soldiers.

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The terrible images of dozens of men bound in underwear that have been leaked in recent days from the Gaza Strip have already gone around the world. Although Israel claimed they were Hamas militiamen who had surrendered, Jewish security officials have now told Haaretz that only between 10 and 15% of those detained They were Hamas operatives and were linked in some way to the organization. Many of them have been released and have reported having suffered abuse and bad treatment during his detention Associated Press. According to sources who have spoken to Haaretz, this is not a mass surrender of entire Hamas units disbanding and handing over their weapons to Israeli recruits. Despite this, security officials affirm that the published photographs of these detainees have a strong effect on motivation of those still fighting in Gaza.

Almost a hundreds of Israeli soldiers have been killed in clashes with Hamas fighters in recent weeks. The Israeli population is divided between those who prefer to stop the fighting in order to bring the 138 hostages back home. Security sources have acknowledged that the Israeli Army cannot create the conditions to obtain another agreement that allows the release of the captives. The prime minister of Taste has announced that, despite the fact that continuous Israeli military operations are “reducing the window” For a good result, the mediation efforts they do not stop. “We are not going to give up,” Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said in the Doha Forum. Without any of the main actors wanting to return to the negotiating table, it is the punished Palestinian population who suffers the suffocation of an endless war.



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