The United States is investigating
possible war crimes committed by Israel
, despite publicly claiming otherwise.
The Huffington Post reports this, citing some sources, according to which the Biden administration has been evaluating possible violations of international laws for months.
At the State Department, some officials are investigating Israeli actions in Gaza that may constitute violations.
Human rights abuses that may violate American law are also being assessed.
Israel has obtained video of Hamas leader Yahya
Sinwar
in Gaza appearing in a tunnel alongside his wife and "two or three" of his children.
This was reported by Canale 12, which however did not broadcast the images.
The footage - according to the same source - shows Sinwar and the family moving from one tunnel to another under Kahn Yunis.
The video is taken from Hamas surveillance and was recovered by soldiers operating in the southern Gaza city.
From the images - now analyzed by the army and the Shin Bet - the Hamas leader appears in good health.
Israel
has prepared a plan involving
the evacuation of civilians along the coast of Gaza
and presented it to
Egypt
.
This was reported by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) according to which the plan - in view of the army's announced military operation in the south - identifies 15 places, with 25 thousand tents each, ranging from the southern tip of Gaza City to Moassi, north of the city of Rafah.
In Rafah there are over a million displaced Palestinians, at risk of being involved in the military operation.
According to Egyptian sources, cited by the WSJ, Israel estimates that the costs of the camps - with medical facilities - will be borne by the USA and Arab countries.
On the negotiations front, according to what the Times of Israel writes,
Israel and Hamas have made "progress" towards an agreement that will lead to a 6-week ceasefire and the release of hostages in Gaza
.
The newspaper cites two sources with direct knowledge of the ongoing talks in Cairo.
According to an Egyptian official, mediators have achieved what they described as "relatively significant" progress and that the parties now focus on drawing up "a final draft" for a 6-week ceasefire with the guarantee of further negotiations for a permanent one.
A Western source, while evoking caution, underlined the importance of today's meeting.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army is continuing operations in the western area
of
Khan Yunis
, the Hamas stronghold in the south of the Gaza Strip, a stone's throw from Rafah.
This was announced by the military spokesperson, according to whom "over 30 terrorists were killed" and control of the area was "strengthened with raids on terrorist infrastructures, snipers and patrols" by Hamas.
"In the western part of Khan Yunis two terrorists attempted to move under the cover of the civilian population", continued the same source, adding that they were "eliminated".
"This is another example," he said, "of Hamas' systematic use of the civilian population as a human shield."
The soldiers then "destroyed two weapons depots located in the terrorists' residences".
In addition to the south, the army also operated in the center of the Strip.
China
today
called on Israel to stop the military operation in
Rafah
"as soon as possible."
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated this in a statement.
“China… opposes and condemns actions that harm civilians and violate international law,” the statement said.
Beijing urges Israel to "stop its military operations as soon as possible and make every effort to avoid innocent civilian casualties... to prevent a more serious humanitarian disaster in the Rafah area."
Russia
also
views an Israeli military operation in the city of Rafah "extremely negatively", according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov quoted by Tass.
For his part, Foreign Minister
Antonio Tajani
noted that "at this point Israel's reaction is disproportionate, there are too many victims who have nothing to do with Hamas".
And he asked the Jewish state to "avoid reprisals against the Palestinian civilian population".
But the Foreign Minister also said he did not agree with
Francesca Albanese
's words : "the Hamas attack was a military attack aimed at hunting Jews and which had inhuman consequences with violence and desecration of corpses, things never views. What Mrs. Albanese says is not correct and I understand Israel's reaction. In the face of a conflict we must be cautious", Tajani reflected after Israel's ban on entry to the United Nations special rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, for his statements about responsibility on October 7th.
"Calls to limit Israel's defense only strengthen Hamas",
denounced the Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, in response to the head of EU foreign policy, Josep Borrell, who asked to limit the supply of weapons to Israel.
Katz recalled that Israel adheres to "the international laws of war and ensures the safe movement of civilians in Gaza, unlike Hamas which prevents it."
"Israel - he concluded - is determined to dismantle Hamas".
Yesterday the Israeli army, with a special forces blitz, freed two hostages kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October in Rafah, in the south of the Strip.
The latter had said they had been held 'in a family's house', while
Hamas
had instead announced the death of three others kidnapped in the bombings.
And he said that at least one hundred people had died in the Israeli raids.
Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
, who had given the green light to the action in recent days, called the blitz "one of the most successful rescue operations in the history of Israel".
For Defense Minister
Yoav Gallant
, the operation represented "a turning point in the campaign against the Hamas terrorist organization which is vulnerable and penetrable".
American President Joe Biden furious with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for the military campaign in Gaza.
According to NBC, he and his collaborators also indulged in insults.
'Enough is enough, the Jewish state must stop', Great Britain and the EU also said.
Clash in Holland on F35s.
High tension also between Israel and the UN, after Francesca Albanese, envoy of the Human Rights Council, was denied access to the country.
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