– For now the armed forces themselves do not speak of a large-scale offensive. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant did say that the war in Gaza has entered ‘a new phase’. He says current operations will continue “until a new order.”
– D66 and SP want an emergency debate about the situation in the Gaza Strip and the position of the Netherlands when voting on a UN resolution about a ceasefire. It means that the House of Representatives must return from recess.
– Due to the current Israeli shelling Gaza is more closed off from the outside world than ever. Telephone and internet connections are down. International organizations are developing major concerns about the assistance. ‘The silence is deafening.’
– The Gaza Strip faces one ‘unprecedented avalanche of human suffering’, warns António Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations. He provides one disaster for the Palestinian peopledue to the lack of food, water and power in the area, which has been bombed by Israel for almost three weeks.