The US president, Donald Trump, held this Friday, May 16, “establishes” the situation in the Gaza “Hambriera” Strip, the civil defense that identifies more than 50 dead in Israeli bombings in the territory devastated by 19 months of war.
“We are interested in Gaza. And we are going to make it resolve. Many people are hungry,” said Donald Trump, in a context of international pressures for Israel to allow humanitarian aid in the territory without blood.
The main Israeli Association of Families of Hostages called the Israeli Prime Minister on Friday so as not to miss a “historical opportunity” for the liberation of their relatives, arrested in Gaza since the unprecedented attack against the Islamist movement Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023.
More than 100 dead Thursday
After an evaluation of more than 100 dead on Thursday, Gaza’s civil defense reported at least 56 people killed on Friday in “Israeli bombings in homes from midnight”, indicating that research operations continue in the debris. Requested by AFP, the Israeli army did not comment on its strikes.
In the north of the territory, the Indonesian hospital of Beit Lahia received 30 bodies, a doctor told AFP anonymously, and to the Al-Awda hospital in Jabalia five bodies and “more than 75 wounded”, according to its interim director Mohammed Salha.
In the first establishment, AFP images show residents, including children who have lost their mother, lament in the body of their loved ones and wounded treated on the ground in the middle of the screams and crying. “We slept when everything suddenly exploded around us (…) There was blood everywhere. We didn’t know who was dead and who was still alive,” said Ous Mohamed al-Tatari, 57 years after the Al-Zaatar sector.
In Beit Lahia, said Hamouda, 41, testifies an “indescribable scene, as if it were the end of the world.” “They went to the house full of civilians while they slept.”
Netanyahu warns of an entry “in force”
Despite an increase in international criticisms about his war behavior, launched by the attack on October 7, Benjamin Netanyahu warned an upcoming “force” entry of the army in Gaza on Monday to “complete the operation and defeat Hamas.”
Breaking a two -month truce, the country resumed its offensive on March 18 with the declared objective of obtaining the release of all hostages still held in Gaza, taking advantage of large sections of the territory.
Since March 2, Israeli forces have also blocked any humanitarian aid entry in Gaza, Vitale for the 2.4 million inhabitants, now threatened with a “mass famine,” according to several NGOs. The NGO Human Rights Watch accused Israel of making its blockade “an extermination tool.” After a resurgence of the upstream mediation efforts of the Donald Trump tour, Hamas has been raised as “a minimum requirement to establish a conducive and constructive environment for negotiations” the resumption of humanitarian aid.
The Islamist movement also said that Gaza “was not on sale”, after the US president said he wanted the United States to “take” the Gaza Strip to “turn it into a freedom of freedom.”
For its part, the UN indicated that it would not participate in help distributions in Gaza for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an NGO created from scratch and with the support of Washington, which had announced preparing to deliver meals in Gaza at the end of May. The October 7 attack led to the death of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official data.
Of the 251 kidnapped people, 57 remain retained in Gaza, 34 of which are declared dead by the Israeli army. Israeli reprisals have killed at least 53,010 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to the latest data from the Hamas Ministry of Health, considered reliable by the UN.
Source: BFM TV
