Israeli forces encircle Gaza city, cut Gaza into two parts
The Israeli government says that they will not commit to a ceasefire until all the hostages are returned and will continue fighting till they win.
Israel on Sunday said that it is bombing Gaza with significant strikes after cutting Gaza into two: North Gaza and South Gaza. ” We have encircled Gaza City… Now there exists a south Gaza and a north Gaza,” army spokesman Daniel Hagari said.
This comes in even as USA’s Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is on a Middle-Eastern tour covering Israel, Palestine, Iraq and Cyprus which focuses on getting aid to the civilians of Palestine and preventing attacks by Iran-backed groups on American troops in response to Israel’s attack on Gaza.
Blinken then met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas who called the attacks on Gaza a genocide, where the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said at least 9,770 people, mostly civilians, had been killed in more than four weeks of war. Abbas denounced “the genocide and destruction suffered by our Palestinian people in Gaza at the hands of Israel’s war machine, with no regard for the principles of international law,” the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said.
These attacks on Gaza are a response to the October 7th attacks, the worst ever on Israel where 1,400 people died which included mostly civilians and 240 people were taken hostage to Gaza. Meanwhile, global pressure has been rising on Netanyahu to stop the attacks on Gaza and agree on an immediate ceasefire but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that “there won’t be a ceasefire until the hostages are returned”.
“Let them remove this from their lexicon. We are saying this to our enemies and to our friends,” the veteran right-wing premier said after meeting troops at an air force base. “We will simply continue until we win. We have no alternative,” he said.
Israel has distributed leaflets and sent text messages urging Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza to head south, but a USA official said Saturday at least 350,000 civilians remained in what is now an urban war zone. Washington’s stance on the Israel-Palestine has not been very firm. From supporting Israel’s military action against Hamas and Palestine to now calling for an immediate ceasefire and then saying in a Senate hearing that Abbas’s Palestinian Authority (PA) should retake control of Gaza after the war. Washington has been saying a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
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