A 33-year-old Dutch woman. He died in an explosion in Gaza., the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Sunday. Islam al-Ashqar I had gone to visit family in the Nusairat refugee camp in central Gaza, and He was one of 22 Dutch citizens that the country’s government was trying to help get out of the region.
According to the AP news agency, Israel bombed the refugee camp’s night market on Saturday night, but it is not yet known whether Al-Ashqar was killed in that explosion. The circumstances of his death are still being investigated.
Al-Ashqar She traveled to Gaza with her husband and four children even before the Hamas attacks in southern Israel. His 16-year-old son Mohammed, who lives in Doorn, near Utrecht, told Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, public radio and television in the Netherlands, last week that The family was trying to leave Gaza across the border with Egyptin Rafah.
The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, described the news as “very sad” and assured on social networks that the country is in contact with the Israeli authorities to obtain more information.
Mark Rutte will travel to the Middle East this Monday to meet with his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, and then with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, the Dutch authorities announced.
Rutte will ask Netanyahu for moderation in the military intervention in the Gaza Strip and for a sustainable humanitarian corridor, according to the Spanish agency EFE. The interim prime minister already told Netanyahu on Sunday night, in a telephone conversation, that “the tragic situation in Gaza requires humanitarian pauses to allow much-needed aid to reach innocent civilians.”
He also defended the need for “a sustainable humanitarian corridor for aid and essential goods such as food, water and fuel.
Following an attack by the Islamist group Hamas on October 7 that killed 1,400 people in Israel, Tel Aviv has since carried out an intense bombardment of Gaza, leaving around 4,700 dead.
Israel also imposed a siege of the Gaza Stripwhere 2.3 million people live, cut off electricity and water supplyand access to essential goods, including fuel needed for generators.
The tragedy caused by the intense blockade and bombing caused international commotion and led countries that initially referred only to Israel’s right to defense to demand proportionality and respect for humanitarian law.
Source: TSF
