In recent hours, Israeli troops have intensified their attacks and bombings against Gaza City, as well as in the center and south of the Palestinian strip, and announced that they have killed three key Hamas figures in the al-Shifa Hospital, whose military siege continues. for the thirteenth consecutive day.
An operation coordinated by the Shayetet 13 flotilla, the Duvdevan unit and the Nahal brigade “carried out a selective raid on a hospital building (al Shifa) where they encountered the terrorists,” a military statement detailed today.
Still according to the text, the soldiers killed Mahmoud Halil Zakzouk, deputy commander of Hamas rocket operations, in the emergency room, and in the maternity ward Fadi Duyk, who coordinated an attack in the West Bank in 2002, as well as Zakaria Najib, convicted of participating in the kidnapping and murder of Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman in 1994.
These names are in addition to the death announced last Thursday of Raed Thabet, Hamas’s chief of staff and supplies, also at al-Shifa Hospital. In total, according to Israeli military figures, more than 200 alleged militants have already been killed in this military operation, which began on March 18.
In addition, nearly a thousand people have been arrested, and of them, about 500 would be associated “with Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” according to Israel, which attacks this medical center for the fourth time.
Today, the Palestinian news agency Wafa denounced “executions, detentions, torture and forced displacement” in the center, as the NGO Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor did on Wednesday, after documenting the “execution” of thirteen children – aged between 4 and 16 years – by direct Israeli fire against the medical complex.
“There are still 107 patients” inside the hospital, the Gaza Ministry of Health detailed today in a statement, “in inhumane conditions, without water, electricity or medicines,” including 30 patients with mobility difficulties and another 60 members of the medical staff.
“The occupation has prevented all attempts to evacuate these patients through international institutions,” denounces the statement, which warns that “the lives of these patients are in serious danger.”
Since the start of the war in Gaza, almost six months ago, more than 32,700 Gazans have died and nearly 75,200 have been wounded, 72% women and children, according to today’s figures from the Ministry of Health of the Hamas Government. Another estimated 8,000 bodies remain under tons of rubble.
“A moral contradiction”
Despite the destruction, the United States authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter planes to Israel in recent days, according to military and diplomatic sources. A move criticized today by the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, which says it calls into question the alleged American concern about the high number of civilian deaths in the enclave.
“Demanding (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu to stop killing civilians and supplying him with weapons (at the same time) is an unprecedented moral and principled contradiction,” the ministry said in a statement on the social network X.
Hamas today “strongly” condemned the shipment and said that it “confirms the full collaboration of this (Biden) administration in the brutal war of extermination waged by the Nazi-Zionist occupation,” it said in a statement via Telegram.
The military equipment includes more than 1,800 2,000-pound MK84 bombs and 500 500-pound MK82 bombs, Pentagon and State Department officials told the Washington Post on condition of anonymity.
The announcement of the shipment comes on the eve of negotiations for a truce and the release of hostages resuming tomorrow in Cairo, the Egyptian channel Al Qahera News reported today, citing a security source.
A ceasefire not implemented
This week, the UN Security Council approved a resolution for a ceasefire, thanks to the abstention of the United States. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued new provisional measures as part of the case brought by South Africa for incitement to genocide, and demanded that Netanyahu’s government provide immediate, large-scale and unrestricted aid.
More than a million Gazans are suffering from a food shortage of catastrophic proportions, according to a recent UN-backed food insecurity report, and famine is already imminent for more than 200,000 people in the north of the Strip.
However, nothing has changed despite these international mandates, and only 159 trucks on average a day have managed to enter Gaza with humanitarian aid this March, according to UNRWA data, compared to the half a thousand a day they did before. war. EFE
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