He geographical framework of the war between Israel and Hamas continues spreading across the region with the direct intervention of new actors. USA has bombed for the first time since the beginning of the conflict two facilities in the eastern Syria which, according to the Pentagon, served the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and its allies in the country. The bombing by the American F-16s occurred almost in parallel with a missile hitting a health center on the banks of the Egyptian Red Seaspecifically in the town of Tabalocated more than 230 kilometers from Loop and very close to the Israeli tourist town of Eilat, as reported by the Egyptian media Al Qashera. And all this while the Israeli tanks re-enter Gaza and the UN agencies paralyze a good part of their services due to the lack of fuel.
The feared regional expansion of the war is gradually taking shape as the diplomacy drags its feet to stop the war and devastation in Gaza reaches epic dimensions. “What we are seeing is unprecedented,” he told the BBC. Juliette Touma, head of communications for the United Nations agency in charge of providing services to Palestinian refugees. “Two million people are being strangled. Gaza is being suffocated with very little help from outside. In three weeks of war they have entered 74 trucks with humanitarian aid in the Strip, an insignificant amount, taking into account that before the beginning of hostilities an average of 450 trucks entered the enclave daily from Egypt. None of them carried fuelessential to keep alive the generators used in the hospitals that continue to work or for the desalination plants.
Israel argues that the fuel could be used by Hamas for its military activities, and continues to veto it against Washington’s position. The consequences are severe. UN agencies, which house more than 600,000 displaced and are essential to maintain assisted breathing in the tortured territory, have announced this Friday a significant reduction in their services by practically depleting their fuel reserves. All this while Israel continues to indiscriminately devastate the Strip, where more than 7,000 Palestinians. Of them, more than 2,900 are children.
The US disconnects its attack from the war in Gaza
Only during the early hours of the morning, Israeli fighters launched 250 attacks throughout the geography of the enclave. And although the expected invasion does not arrive, its tanks have re-entered the northern Gazathe third time since the start of the war, caused this time by the surprise attack by Hamas on southern Israel, in which more than 1,300 people, most of them civilians, died.
Regarding the US attack in Syria, the Secretary of Defense wanted to separate it from the ongoing war and said that it would not have been consensual with Israel. “These precision bombing in self defense are a response to the series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks launched against US personnel by the Iranian-backed militias since October 17,” he said Lloyd Austin in words that aim to neutralize what from the outside could be considered a textbook aggression. “They do not constitute a change in our approach to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.”
More than half of the hostages have foreign passports
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Washington has deployed two naval strike groups in the eastern Mediterranean to discourage further involvement of Hezbollah in the conflict, as well as a THADD anti-ballistic missile system in the region. Its leaders are not particularly convinced of the plans laid out by their Israeli partners for the ground invasion of Gaza and the subsequent postwar period. At the very least, they want to leave more room for the release of hostages. There would be a total of 220, as confirmed by the Israeli army. More than half have foreign passport. They belong to 25 countries, which includes 54 Thais, 15 Argentines, 12 germans either 12 Americans.
After stating on Thursday that fifty hostages had died in the Israeli bombings, Hamas has communicated that for new releases to take place there will have to be a humanitarian ceasefire, As published by the Russian newspaper ‘Kommersant’, a measure similar to that agreed upon by the European Union. After weeks of indifference towards massacre of Palestinians in Gazathe Twenty-Seven agreed this Thursday to demand the opening of “humanitarian corridors” and “pauses for humanitarian needs” in the Strip.