12 minutes agoA week from Hamas ' attacks on Israel, all that happened
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(3 years ago)The photo illustration has spent a week since Hamas' attacks on Israel, and it is still unclear whether Israel has plans to launch a ground attack on Gaza. Israel has carried out serious air strikes in Gaza and has signaled there is more to come. It is also creating a crisis [...]
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It has been a week since Hamas' attacks on Israel, and it is still unclear whether Israel plans to launch a ground attack on Gaza.
Israel has carried out serious air strikes in Gaza and has signaled there is more to come. It's also creating a humanitarian crisis.
Israel has ordered more than a million people in Gaza to evacuate south before possible Israeli land operation, according to the United Nations. Many Palestinians fled their homes Friday, while Gaza is turning into a desert from Israeli bombings.
Gaza's humanitarian crisis is deepening with warnings that people are threatened by hunger. At least 1,900 people were killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Main Developments
Israel's offensive action: In addition to continuing air strikes, Israeli troops have conducted local raids during the past day at the Gaza Strip, seeking hostages and collecting evidence to find people taken from Hamas, Israeli Protection Forces said. Meanwhile, Israel has collected more than 300,000 militias along the Gaza border for a full-fledged ground operation. Israel has also been charged by the Palestinian Health Ministry for <x0 Grouping and killing medical and ambulance personnel during their humanitarian missions for evacuation of victims of aggression”.
humanitarian concerns: The UN said calls for the evacuation of 1.1 million people in Gaza are the impossible “, and has urged the Israeli Army to step down, according to Stéphane Duyarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary General. Dujarric said such massive evacuation would have “devastating humanitarian consequences”.
What Hamas says: A senior Hamas official said Friday that the current situation in Gaza represents” an extremely bold and brutal effort to forcibly remove the Palestinian indigenous people from their land”. The official called Israel's operations in Gaza “human” and “bare”, adding that Hamas “will not hand over our legitimate struggle for freedom and self-determination”.
International contribution: The White House says national security officials held calls with UN officials Thursday and Friday concerning the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, but refused to offer details about progress in removing foreign citizens from the area. Vassily Nebenzia, Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, is circulating a draft resolution on the UN Security Council, which requires a ceasefire in the “Israel-Gaza” war. Hamas said in a statement Saturday morning that he welcomes Russia's hardworking “efforts, aimed at stopping Israel's aggression against territory.
Attacks on Lebanon: Israel is conducting fearful attacks on Hezbollah's goals in Lebanon, Israeli Protection Forces said (IDF). This comes after the Israeli army bombed southern Lebanon in response to an explosion at a security fence near the Lebanese-Israel border earlier Friday, the IDF said. There is growing fear of Lebanon-based Shiite militant faction Hezbollah, which will enter into conflict.
Concerns for a wider regional conflict: Jordan's Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, said his country is the extremely concerned “for the spread of the conflict in Israel and is working to decelerate the situation. Of Israel's immediate neighbors, he is at peace only with Jordan and Egypt, and is officially at war with Lebanon and Syria. Israel has said it is ready in case there are attacks from these two countries.
