The Israeli army announced on Sunday evening that it had carried out “major” strikes in the Gaza Strip and divided it into two parts, in the midst of a regional tour by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken focusing on delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of the besieged Strip. The Hamas government confirmed that the Israeli army launched “intensive bombardment” on Sunday evening around several hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, as Israel cut off telephone communications and the Internet prior to that. In southern Lebanon, four members of the family of a Lebanese journalist, including three children, were killed in an Israeli strike on Sunday, while they were riding in a car on a road in southern Lebanon. Shortly after that, Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it had fired Katyusha rockets at Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, in response to this “heinous, brutal crime.”
Published on: 06/11/2023 – 00:19
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A month after the war in Gaza Between Israel and Hamas, there is no truce on the horizon despite international diplomatic efforts.
About 10,000 Palestinians, nearly half of them children, have been killed in the devastating Israeli bombing since the beginning of the war that broke out on October 7, following an attack launched by the Palestinian movement that killed about 1,400 people in Israel.
Ground battles continue in the northern Gaza Strip, despite calls for a ceasefire.
01:20 Israel: We ceased fire for several hours in northern Gaza to help civilians move south
An Israeli army spokesman told CNN on Sunday that Israel ceased fire in northern Gaza for several hours over two consecutive days to provide safe passage for civilians to move to the south, amid pressure for a humanitarian truce.
Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus added, “Yesterday and today, for several hours, with prior notice and warning, we took facilitating measures and ceased fire in certain areas in northern Gaza, which is the main fighting zone, and asked the Palestinians to move south.”
00:30 King Abdullah: The Jordanian Air Force was able to drop urgent medical aid to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza.
Jordanian King Abdullah said in a post on the “X” platform that members of the Jordanian Air Force were able to drop urgent medical aid in the middle of the night to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza.
France 24/AFP/Reuters
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