The Israeli army announced this Saturday, May 17, having led “important strikes” in Gaza that marked the launch of the intensification of its offensive in the Palestinian territory devastated by the war, where several days of intense bombings made hundreds of deaths.
Despite an increase in international criticisms about his war behavior, launched by the attack on October 7, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday of a future entry of “force” of the army in Gaza to “complete the operation and defeat Hamas.”
Just a few hours after the end of the tour in the Gulf of Donald Trump, who had moved hunger in the Palestinian territory, the Israeli army said that “during the last day, he threw great strikes and transferred forces to take control of the areas of gaza strips.”
“This is part of the initial stages of the operation of Gideon’s cartoons and the expansion of the offensive in the Gaza Strip, with the aim of achieving all the objectives of the war, including the liberation of hostages and the defeat of Hamas,” said the early army on Saturday on social networks.
After a two -month truce, the Israeli army resumed its offensive on March 18 in Gaza and grabbed large sections of the territory. The Netanyahu government announced in early May a plan for the “conquest” of Gaza, which Israel had occupied from 1967 to 2005, requiring the internal movement of the “majority” of its 2.4 million inhabitants.
Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency said Israeli attacks killed at least 100 people on Friday, after informing more than 80 people on Wednesday and more than 100 dead on Thursday.
Treated on the ground
In a hospital in Beit Lahia (North), the ICF images show residents, including children who have lost their mother, lament in the body of their loved ones and are treated in the ground in the middle of the screams and crying.
In Beit Lahia, Hamouda said that the bombings “attacked homes where civilians were sleeping. The children were screaming, the doors were blowing. An indescribable scene, as if it were the end of the world.”
“Those who do not die in the bombing will die of hunger,” laments Khalil Al-Tatar, another resident.
The October 7 attack, led by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, 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 were declared dead by the Army.
Israeli reprisals have left at least 53,119 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to the latest data from the Hamas Ministry of Health, considered reliable by the UN.
On Friday, the main Israeli association of host -host families called Benjamin Netanyahu so as not to miss a “historical opportunity” for the liberation of their relatives and “join their efforts to those of President Trump” for this, evoking “a great concern in the light of information about the intensification of attacks [israéliennes] In Gaza. “But the prime minister insists that only greater military pressure will push Hamas to free the hostages.
A “mass famine”
Since March 2, Israeli forces have also blocked any entry of humanitarian aid in Gaza, Vitale for the 2.4 million inhabitants, now threatened with a “mass famine” according to several NGOs.
At the end of his tour in the Gulf, American president Donald Trump, an ally of Israel, said: “We are interested in Gaza. And we are going to solve it. Many people are hungry.”
Hamas, including the unprecedented attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, triggered the war, then asked the United States to press the Benjamin Netanyahu government to let humanitarian aid in.
For the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, “this last wave of bombs that force people to move under the threat of even more intense attacks, the methodical destruction of whole neighborhoods and the refusal of humanitarian aid underline that there seems to be an impulse for a permanent demographic change in Gaza that (…) is equivalent to ethnic cleaning.” Israel says that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza and accuses Hamas of stealing international help.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an NGO supported by the United States, said it would begin to distribute humanitarian aid in Gaza this month, after staying with Israeli officials. However, the United Nations excluded any participation in this initiative on Thursday, invoking problems of “impartiality, neutrality (and) independence.”
Source: BFM TV
