New deadline for civilians to evacuate its northern part Gaza Strip his powers gave Israelprompting them with a message in Arabic to move south from 10:00 to 16:00.
“If you care about yourself and your loved ones, go south as directed. Rest assured that Hamas leaders have taken care of themselves and are covered by strikes in the region.” said the relevant announcement, urging civilians to use specific evacuation corridors to leave Gaza City “safely”.
“For your safety, take advantage of the short ‘window’ to move south – from Beit Hanoun to Khan Yunis”says the message, which also includes a map of the two runways.
The Israeli armed forces announced today that found “significant movement” of Palestinian civilians southwardsa day after ordering Gazans to leave, as Israel’s prime minister has promised further retaliation for last week’s Hamas attack.
Joe Biden stated that negotiations are underway with regional governments on the humanitarian crisis in Gazaas Palestinians trapped there suffer power outages and food and water shortages while being heavily shelled by the Israelis.
Bodies of missing persons found
His nightmare war the Middle East continues to live, one week after Hamas attacked Israel. In fact, according to the Jerusalem Post, Israeli forces found bodies of missing civilians as the 7th Brigade advanced towards the border.
The number of dead bodies is not specified. The brigade, according to the publication, surrounded the area, found the bodies and transported them to Israeli territory.
The Israeli military reported that carried out its first ground operations in the Gaza Strip, where a large-scale raid is expected to eliminate the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. According to his representative, the aim was to “clear” areas “of terrorists and weapons”.
On his part its military arm Hamas – the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades – announced that 13 of the at least 150 hostages it took in Israel were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. He stated that among them were foreigners, without specifying their nationalities. There has been no confirmation from Chahal, the Israeli army, which said it would investigate this information.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled Gaza
Tens of thousands of people are estimated to have fled Gaza City and moved south after its army Israel has given a 24-hour deadline to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip ahead of large-scale ground operations, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced.
Even before this ultimatum of the Israeli army, over 423,000 people had been displaced in the Gaza Strip, which remains under siege and hammered by the Israeli army.
Saudi Arabia “categorically” rejects the evacuation of Gaza
Saudi Arabia’s diplomacy said on Friday that the kingdom “categorically” rejects any movement of Gaza’s population, condemning the shelling of “defenseless civilians”, raising the tone of its criticism of Israel after the Hamas attack.
Riyadh “states its categorical rejection of calls for the forced displacement of the Palestinian population of Gaza and its condemnation of the continued shelling of defenseless civilians” in the enclave, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a press release.
Thousands of Palestinians fled on Friday, taking to Gaza’s often damaged roads, hoping to find safe haven further south, after the Israeli army ordered the population to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip, where it is preparing to launch a large-scale ground operation in retaliation for the bloody attack by Hamas on Israeli territory a week ago.
The Saudi announcement came as US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Riyadh as part of a tour of six Arab countries following his trip to Israel.
Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel from Gaza and Israel’s war against it, shelling the Strip, have called into question, if not buried, the efforts of the US administration of Joe Biden to promote an Israeli-Saudi rapprochement.
Riyadh, which has so far not recognized the state of Israel, released a series of statements of support for the Palestinians this week.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also called on the international community yesterday Friday to “take action quickly to stop any form of military escalation against civilians, prevent a humanitarian disaster and provide the necessary assistance to the residents of Gaza.”
“Depriving them of the necessary means for a dignified life is a violation of international humanitarian law and will exacerbate the crisis and suffering experienced in the region”he added.
At 16 the dead in the West Bank
The death toll in the West Bank rose to sixteen Palestinians on Friday, bringing the death toll to at least 51 since October 7, the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry in Ramallah announced in the early hours of the morning.
The death of a Reuters cameraman in Lebanon reflects the danger of the war spreading
THE death of Reuters cameraman Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanonwhere he covered the developments, attests to the enormous risk that the war between Israel and Hamas will “spread” to Lebanese territory, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, warned yesterday Friday.
In addition to the cameraman who died, six other members of the news teams sent to the area by Reuters, AFP and Al Jazeera were injured, the three media outlets said. The journalists were near the village of Alma es Sab when they were hit by cross-border shelling, an injured AFP journalist said.
An AFP source in Lebanon’s security forces said the Israeli shelling followed an attempted Palestinian infiltration from the Lebanese side.
Two other members of the Reuters team, Thaer al-Sudani and Maher Nazeh, were injured and required medical treatment, the agency said, adding that it was trying to gather “more information” about what happened.
AFP photojournalist Christina Assi and cameraman Dylan Collins were also injured and taken to a hospital in Tyre.
Al Jazeera’s Carmen Juhadar and Eli Brahia were also injured when their vehicle was hit “by Israeli shelling,” they said.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati denounced in a statement that “journalists have been targeted by the Israeli enemy as part of its ongoing attack against Lebanese soil.”
Russia proposes to the UN Security Council a draft resolution on the war
Russia distributed to the other member states of the Security Council yesterday Friday a draft resolution of the top UN body on the Israel-Hamas conflict which calls for a humanitarian ceasefire, condemns violence against civilians and all acts of terrorism.
The text, obtained by the Reuters news agency, also calls for the release of all hostages, unfettered access to humanitarian aid and the safe and expedited removal of civilians in need from the Palestinian enclave.
The draft resolution was circulated to the remaining 14 member states during an emergency meeting of the Security Council on the conflict, particularly the situation in the Gaza Strip, which was held behind closed doors yesterday, diplomatic sources explained.
The move follows calls from various countries for Israel not to launch a ground operation in the northern Gaza Strip, where most of the population defied an Israeli army order to flee south before launching an offensive against Hamas, following its attack Palestinian Islamist movement in Israel with over 1,300 dead since last Saturday.
The one-page Russian text refers to Israel and the Palestinians, without including an explicit reference to Hamas.
“They didn’t consult everybody and it doesn’t even include a reference to Hamas, so they’re obviously not serious or in line with the views of most other member states” of the Security Council, a diplomat told Reuters on condition of anonymity, referring to the drafters.
In order for any decision to be approved by the Security Council, at least nine votes in favor are needed and no veto is exercised by any of its five permanent member states (USA, Britain, France, China, Russia).
The US has traditionally been Israel’s protectorate in the SA, exercising its right of veto on texts it deems directed against it.
It is not yet clear if or when Russia plans to put the draft decision to a vote.
After Hamas’s surprise and unprecedented attack on Israel, the Israeli military declared war on it, and the Gaza pounding since last Saturday has killed at least 1,900 people in retaliation. The head of the Israeli government explained yesterday that the operations so far were “only the beginning”.
Source: News Beast
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