Gaza war: Israeli army announces opening of new route for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza – BBC News Arabic

The meeting comes, according to the Israeli news website Walla, in the wake of reports that Biden is trying to take advantage of the few months left in the White House to reach a settlement to end on the war in Lebanon, and to make some progress in terms of creating a deal with spies, detainees and prisoners, and a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, citing sources in the Israeli army, said that a new crossing was opened near the Kissufim area in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, to bring humanitarian aid into the Strip.

The newspaper quoted sources as saying that this crossing will be designated to bring aid into central and southern Gaza.

Earlier today, Israeli media reported that Israel’s small security and political council decided to increase humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, as a result of the month-long deadline given by the United States to Israel to to improve the humanitarian situation in the Strip, nearing completion.

The Israel Broadcasting Authority indicated that the Council agreed to what it described as “humanitarian measures” in Gaza, in case Washington imposes sanctions on Israel or restricts the supply of weapons to it.

According to Israel’s Channel 13, Israel will make it clear to the American administration that there will be no urgency to move residents from the combat zones in the Gaza Strip.

On the ground, more than thirty people were killed from Monday night to Tuesday morning as a result of continuous Israeli air and artillery bombardment on different areas of the Gaza Strip. At least 10 were killed after a house in which people lived was bombed in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Eyewitnesses also indicated that Israeli forces laid siege to several schools where displaced people were housed, amid heavy gunfire and shelling, forcing hundreds of them to flee despite the real danger. . They said: “Israeli forces are attacking a school in the village of Beit Hanoun, which houses 130 displaced families, amid intense bombing and gunfire.

Israeli military forces asked those in the Beit Hanoun shelters and surrounding homes to leave and go south through Salah al-Din Street.

The death toll from an Israeli airstrike targeting a cafe in the Al-Mawasi area, west of the city of Khan Yunis, yesterday, Monday night, rose to eleven people, as forces continued the Israeli army continues to bomb areas inside the country. Nuseirat refugee camp from yesterday, Monday, where three people were killed and nearly 10 were injured in the bombing House at dawn in the camp, according to medical sources and witnesses.