As the Israeli army increasingly advances against the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip with tank units and fighter jets, the humanitarian situation for the people there is becoming increasingly dire. Although Israel has strongly urged remaining civilians in the northern Gaza Strip, including patients in hospitals, to move south for safety, thousands of people are still in Shifa Hospital, according to TV reports. According to Israeli reports, the hospital also serves as a Hamas command center. Meanwhile, violent anti-Jewish attacks are taking place in the North Caucasus, given the increasing number of deaths in the Gaza Strip.
Anti-Jewish attacks in Dagestan
As a result of the Gaza conflict, anti-Jewish attacks have increased in Russia’s Muslim-dominated North Caucasus. In Makhachkala in the Republic of Dagestan, a crowd of people entered the airport on Sunday evening after a plane from Tel Aviv had landed there, reportedly carrying refugees from Israel. The Russian state news agency Tass reported that more than twenty people were injured in the incident, some seriously. Israel called on Russian authorities to protect its citizens. The US condemns the anti-Semitic incidents in Dagestan, the National Security Council spokeswoman said on Platform
Chief Prosecutor Warns Israel and Hamas
Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, warned Israel and Hamas against violating international law. “I would like to clearly emphasize to Israel that it must make visible efforts without further delay to ensure that the civilian population receives basic food, medicine and anesthetics,” Khan said in Cairo, referring to the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. And to the Hamas rulers in Gaza and anyone “in power there”: aid must reach the civilian population “and not be abused or diverted from them,” the chief prosecutor warned.
Israel wants to facilitate aid deliveries
Meanwhile, Israel says it wants to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Elad Goren of the responsible Cogat authority told journalists on Sunday that aid deliveries must be “dramatically increased” in the coming weeks. The water supply in the Gaza Strip is “not at normal levels” but sufficient for humanitarian needs. According to Israeli findings, there is no shortage of food in the Gaza Strip.
US President Joe Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday about the catastrophic situation. He made it clear to Netanyahu that significantly more humanitarian aid must reach Gaza “immediately,” government headquarters in Washington said. In a conversation with Al-Sisi, the two heads of state pledged, among other things, to “significantly accelerate and continuously increase” aid deliveries to Gaza from today.
According to an Israeli media report, a convoy of 33 trucks carrying aid arrived in the Gaza Strip on the same day. It was the largest daily convoy since the start of the war. However, according to aid organizations, this is far from sufficient to provide for the livelihood of the more than 2.2 million residents. 100 trucks are needed per day.
The number of deaths is increasing
Terrorists from Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, carried out a massacre in Israel on October 7. Since then, Israel has suffered more than 1,400 deaths. More than 230 people were kidnapped. Meanwhile, casualties in the Gaza Strip continued to rise as a result of Israel’s violent retaliation. More than 8,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began three weeks ago, according to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Health Ministry.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary General António Guterres again called for an immediate ceasefire and the release of more than 230 hostages. “A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes” in the Gaza Strip, Guterres said on platform X. Last weekend, people in Gaza looted UN food warehouses. “This is a worrying sign that after three weeks of war and a heavy siege on Gaza, civil order is slowly collapsing,” said Thomas White, head of UNRWA in the Gaza Strip.
Tens of thousands of civilians remain in northern Gaza
Meanwhile, more and more Israeli ground troops are advancing against Hamas in the Gaza Strip with battle tanks and fighter planes. The stated goal is to destroy the Islamic organization. For weeks, Israel has been calling on the civilian population in the city of Gaza and in the north to move to the south of the coastal strip for their own safety. But there are air raids there too. Israeli media reported that Hamas had concentrated about 30,000 people in the area around Gaza’s Shifa Hospital alone to serve as “human shields.” This was intended to prevent Israel from attacking their underground command center.
There is also fighting on Israel’s northern borders
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said it was firing again on targets in neighboring Syria in response to rocket attacks. A warplane hit “military infrastructure” on Syrian territory, the Israeli army said on Monday evening. The situation on Israel’s northern external borders has been extremely tense since the Hamas massacre and Israel’s subsequent counterattacks. According to the Israeli army, several rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon on Sunday. In response, Lebanese Hezbollah targets were attacked.
What will be important on Monday
Israel has initiated a new phase of its military operation in the Gaza Strip, and rocket fire from the Gaza Strip continues. Meanwhile, efforts are underway to release those kidnapped in the Gaza Strip. (sda/dpa)
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