Since the start of the military operation against the terrorist group Hamas, the Israeli forces say they have attacked 14,000 targets in the Gaza Strip. Many civilians were killed, especially in air raids. The G7 countries are now calling for an expansion of humanitarian aid.
Israel says more than a hundred tunnel entrances were destroyed last month and scores of Hamas commanders were killed, military spokesman Daniel Hagari said Tuesday evening.
In addition, Israeli units destroyed more than 4,000 weapons, many of which were hidden in mosques, kindergartens and residential areas.
“This is evidence of Hamas’s cynical use of civilians as human shields,” Hagari said. On October 7, terrorists from Hamas and other groups killed more than 1,400 people and kidnapped numerous hostages in the Gaza Strip during massacres and attacks in the Israeli border area.
Israeli forces then carried out airstrikes and moved ground forces to the densely populated coastal strip. The first troops have now reached Gaza City and are operating “in the heart of the city”. The number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip has risen to more than 10,300, according to the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry. The figures cannot currently be independently verified.
The G7 want to expand humanitarian aid
It is certain that there are also many civilians among the victims. The G7 group of economically strong democracies considers it urgently necessary to expand humanitarian assistance to the suffering Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip. There is “great agreement” about this, as was said on Wednesday from German delegations. Humanitarian ceasefires were also a topic at the Tokyo meeting.
In particular, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and her Japanese counterpart Yoko Kamikawa spoke out in favor of ensuring the supply of the population in the area closed off by Israel. According to Japan’s Foreign Ministry, Kamikawa stated that “the immediate release of the hostages and improving the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip are top priorities, and we must call on the countries concerned to establish humanitarian pauses and ensure humanitarian access.”
Japan is prepared to provide further humanitarian aid to Gaza worth approximately 65 million dollars (61 million euros). The host country of the G7 had already decided to provide emergency aid worth ten million dollars. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant emphasized that a humanitarian ceasefire would only be conceivable with the return of all abductees.
Plans for the “day after”
German delegation circles also said that the G7 also wanted to closely coordinate their efforts to release the hostages kidnapped by Hamas to Gaza. All participants emphasized Israel’s right to self-defense within the framework of international humanitarian law. There was consensus that a regional conflagration had to be prevented and that considerations for “the day after” had to be coordinated both within the G7 round and with Israel and the countries in the region.
Source: Krone
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