Insufficient patch to relieve Loop. During this Saturday, when two weeks of continuous bombings on the Strip have passed, the first humanitarian aid trucks through the Rafah Pass, on the border with Egypt. In just four hours, 20 trucks have entered, unloaded the materials in the south of the enclave and returned to Egyptian territory. Before the conflict, a hundred vehicles of this type with aid entered Gaza. Now with more than a million displaced people and thousands of injuries in hospitals that operate with hardly any electricity, this humanitarian assistance is like “a drop in the ocean”just as the organizations have been denouncing for days.
Nor have the bombs stopped during those four hours of forced hope. In it northern strip Gaza, the Israeli Army has launched thousands of pamphlets demanding residents still holding out in their homes to leave. Otherwise, they will be considered terrorist collaborators and they will assume the consequences of the Israeli military operation that will be carried out in this area, as reported by Youmna el Sayed for Al Jazeera from Gaza City. In the last 24 hours, Israel has killed 248 people and injured another 400, including 29 families. After 15 days of aggressive offensive, some 4,385 Palestinians have died in Gaza, including 1,756 children and almost a thousand women.
“3% of daily needs”
The “vital supplies” that have been included in the first humanitarian aid convoy to enter the Strip have brought trauma medications for 1,200 people, 235 portable trauma bags for the immediate stabilization of injured patients, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) , and “medicines for the treatment of chronic diseases for 1,500 people, and basic essential health supplies for 300,000 people for three months,” according to the United Nations. The Gaza Ministry of Health has denounced that the fuel exclusion of the aid that has arrived has dangerous repercussions for health services, since “only 3% of daily needs” have been covered today with the entry of aid through Rafá.
“Seven hospitals and 25 health centers are currently out of service due to lack of fuel, and hospital bed occupancy has reached more than 150%“, which has led to the installation of tents to absorb the enormous number of injured,” the ministry said in a statement. Given the seriousness of the situation that not even the figures are capable of expressing, they have asked the retired staff already the recent graduate students to volunteer in all specialties. Martin GriffithsUnder-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator United Nations, has said that there are “possibilities” about what tomorrow More aid is allowed to enter Gaza and he hoped that “help arrives every day.”
active northern front
Throughout Saturday, sirens continued to sound in Israeli cities bordering Gaza. Meanwhile, thousands of soldiers are still waiting for the go-ahead from the Israeli authorities to begin the ground invasion. Also to the north, the attacks by the Lebanese militia Hezbollah and Palestinian groups based in Lebanon have intensified. At least 14 Hezbollah members have been killed in Israeli retaliatory strikes in southern Lebanon in the past two weeks. “Every day we carry out an evaluation of the north: we are strong in defense and attack [en la frontera con el Líbano]but the main task What we focus on is Loop”, said the spokesman for the Israeli Army, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.
“Our main mission is Gaza, where Hamas is and where our kidnapped citizens are,” he added. During Friday night, the Palestinian militia freed his first two hostages. This Saturday the Israeli authorities announced that at least 210 people They could be held in Gaza, while they continue to identify the fatalities. This Saturday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and members of the war cabinet, like Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and emergency government minister Benny Gantz, have toured southern Israel to see military preparations for the expected ground offensive in Gaza. “These are the last days of his corrupt regime”, some protesters have shouted at Netanyahu.
Violence in the West Bank
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Meanwhile, in the Occupied West Bank, the tension does not stop escalating. At least 84 Palestinians They have been killed by the violence of the Israeli Army or radical settlers. Before the Hamas operation, 2023 was already the deadliest year since the second intifada at the beginning of the century. Some 1,400 people have been injured in these two weeks. One of the most serious phenomena is alarming increase in Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. Since October 7, Israel has doubled the number from prisoners to 10,000, with the arrest of 4,000 Gaza workers and more than 1,000 people in the occupied West Bank.
Furthermore, many of them have been arrested for show solidarity with their Palestinian brothers from Gaza in publications in the social networks. Even in sovereign Israeli territory, many Palestinians with Israeli citizenship have been arrested in the last two weeks. For Gaza and Palestine in general, the only hope is far from its borders. As European leaders give their support to Israel, as the prime minister Georgia Meloni who has met with Netanyahu, the streets of Europe send another message. Tens of thousands of people have taken to squares around the globe to express their rejection of the Israeli campaign on Gaza.