At the same time as it announced it will intensify attacks on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army has called on the Palestinian population to flee south using leaflets and audio messages on mobile phones. The sound is getting sharper.
As Reuters correspondent Nidal al-Mughrabi reports, Hamas is accused of preventing the population from reaching safety and using them as a “human shield,” as was said days ago.
Relief supplies are only delivered in the south
The southern Gaza Strip is also the region where aid supplies from Egypt have been flowing in since Saturday. As reported, the border crossing at Rafah was opened on Saturday morning. The first convoy carried 60 tons of food from the UN World Food Program (WFP), including cans of tuna, flour, pasta, beans and tomato paste. “This food is urgently needed, conditions in southern Gaza are catastrophic,” said WFP Director Cindy McCain. On the Egyptian side there is another 930 tons of food and 1.1 million people will be supported in the next two months. First aid is only ‘a drop in the ocean’, as children’s aid organization UNICEF explains.
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths is confident that the first humanitarian convoy of 20 trucks will soon be followed by others. “I am confident that this delivery will be the beginning of a sustained effort to provide the people of the Gaza Strip with essential goods such as food, water, medicine and fuel safely, reliably, unconditionally and unhindered. The people of Gaza have been suffering for decades. The international community cannot continue to abandon them,” he said in Cairo on Saturday.
Israel: Hamas strike unit member killed
In the fight against Hamas, Israel says it has once again succeeded in dealing a blow to the leadership. As the military announced on Telegram on Sunday morning, a member of the Hamas strike unit “Nuchba” (“Elite”) was among those killed in the attacks the day before. “Nukhba” terrorists were among the forces that led the invasion of Israel on October 7. More than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel since the terrorist attack.
Since then, the Israeli Air Force has been carrying out massive bombardments on the Gaza Strip. Warplanes attacked dozens of Hamas terror targets there on Saturday, some of which were in multi-storey buildings, the Israeli army said. During the day, tunnel shafts, weapons depots and mosques used by Hamas as command centers were attacked, the report said.
Rocket attacks on Israel continue
Meanwhile, rocket attacks on Israel by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip continued. There was another rocket alarm in the Tel Aviv area on Sunday morning, the Israeli army announced. Magen David Adom emergency services said there have been no reports of injuries so far.
Source: Krone
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