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The Israeli army announced this Saturday the arrest of a hundred people accused of "terrorist activity" in the Gazan Naser hospital, in the southern city of Khan Younis, which was attacked on Thursday after 25 days of siege.
For its part, Hamas warned this Friday that casualties among Israeli hostages "have increased" and that those who are still alive do so in "extremely difficult conditions."
Israel has said that about a hundred hostages remain detained in Gaza after acknowledging the deaths of 31 of them on Tuesday.
A gunman has opened fire at a bus stop in central Israel, killing two people and wounding four others.
The attacker, whom the police consider a “terrorist”, has been killed.
Israel has no plans to deport the Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said this Friday, adding that it would coordinate its plans for hundreds of thousands of refugees in the city of Rafah with neighboring Egypt.
The Egyptian authorities are carrying out works that, according to an NGO, are intended to establish a high security zone a short distance from the Palestinian enclave in preparation for an eventual reception of Gazan refugees.
In Rafah, in the extreme south of Gaza, more than a million people are crowded together, displaced from other areas of the Strip by the war.
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Israel detains a hundred people at the Naser hospital accused of "terrorist activity"
The Israeli army announced this Saturday the arrest of a hundred people accused of "terrorist activity" in the Gazan Naser hospital, in the southern city of Khan Younis, which was attacked on Thursday after 25 days of siege.
“Army troops continue to operate in the Gaza Strip.
"Soldiers continue to operate in the Khan Yunis area and, so far, have detained 100 people suspected of terrorist activity at the Naser hospital," a military statement said.
The military note adds that special forces continue to carry out a “precise and limited operation,” which began on Thursday, against Hamas within the medical complex and that “is based on information from the intelligence services” of the armed forces.
Likewise, he points out that the soldiers have killed an undetermined number of alleged “terrorists” in the surroundings of the hospital.
On the other hand, the text reports that in the town of Khan Yunis, military units carried out raids on "numerous targets", in which they located "weapons, including grenades, explosive devices and AK-47 rifles", and killed an air attack on two alleged enemy combatants who were approaching the troops on motorcycles.
The note also speaks of the death of three other alleged “terrorists” who were heading to a place to launch rockets and of a “terrorist cell” that was identified, also in Khan Yunis.
In the center of the Strip, the army also claims to have killed “several terrorists,” including two people who were presumably members of Hamas.
On Friday night, the Gaza Health Ministry, controlled by the Hamas group, reported that the Israeli Army was preventing a convoy with the help of the World Health Organization (WHO) from arriving at the Naser hospital.
There are two trucks, one of them loaded with fuel and the second with water and food, according to the source.
(Efe)
ACT.17 FEB 2024 - 09:09
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The Gaza Ministry of Health denounces that Israel is preventing the arrival of a convoy with humanitarian aid to the Al Naser hospital
The Ministry of Health in Gaza, controlled by Hamas, has denounced that the Israeli army has been preventing a convoy with the help of the World Health Organization (WHO) from arriving at the Al Naser hospital for more than seven hours.
"Israeli occupation forces stop a World Health Organization aid convoy 50 meters from the Naser medical complex," the Ministry said in a brief statement.
The Israeli forces attacked the medical center yesterday, after 25 days of siege, in an operation in which at least five patients died.
There are two trucks, one of them loaded with fuel and the second with water and food, according to the source.
The Ministry denounces that the soldiers have dug ditches in front and behind the trucks to prevent them from reaching the hospital.
The Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai al Kaila, denounced that al Naser, his medical staff, patients and displaced people who have sought refuge in his facilities "are being subjected to a continuous crime of genocide by the Israeli occupation army, which seeks to destroy it and liquidate those who are in it through bombings, displacements and arrests of medical personnel, cuts of medical services, electricity cuts, oxygen cuts and deaths of patients."
In addition, Israel is holding, according to Health, five doctors and 120 patients in the old center building, whom it has allegedly left without electricity, water, food or oxygen, which cannot be supplied to the patients because the generators have stopped. , depending on your version.
Israel alleges that its operation against the hospital was "precise and limited" and that it was based on "credible information" from the intelligence services that Hamas held some of the Israeli hostages it captured there.
(Efe)
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 21:53
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Egypt denies that the works on its border are to create an area to welcome Palestinians
The director of Egypt's State Information Service, Diaa Rashwan, who acts as government spokesperson, "categorically" denied this Friday that Egypt's preparations on the border with the Gaza Strip are to build an area to welcome Palestinians. in case of “forced displacement” due to the Israeli offensive.
“Egypt categorically denies what was reported by some international media about Egypt's preparations to build units to house Palestinian brothers in the area adjacent to the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip, in case of their forced displacement as a result of the bloody aggression. against them in the Strip,” Rashwan said in a statement.
(Efe)
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 21:01
Marc SpanishLuis de Vega
A Palestinian woman walks next to the border fence that separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt, this Friday.
/ IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA / REUTERS
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Egypt prepares for an exodus of Gazans that Israel denies planning
Egypt is preparing for a scenario in which an Israeli offensive on Rafah, in southern Gaza, fulfills its worst omens and causes a massive forced displacement of Palestinians towards its territory.
In recent days, the authorities of the Arab country have accelerated works in the east of the Sinai Peninsula, next to the border with the Strip, aimed at establishing an isolated and walled area that could accommodate an eventual exodus of Gazans.
The work occurs while Cairo simultaneously reinforces its border with the Palestinian enclave and orders greater military deployment in the region.
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ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 20:13
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Palestinian refugees, including many children, crowd into Rafah to receive food rations.
/ FATIMA SHBAIR / AP / LAPRESSE
What has happened in the last few hours
These are the latest news on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza at 8:00 p.m. this Friday, February 16:
Israel says it has no plans to deport Palestinians from Gaza
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Israel has no plans to deport the Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said this Friday, adding that it would coordinate its plans for hundreds of thousands of refugees in the city of Rafah with neighboring Egypt.
Hamas warns that casualties among Israeli hostages “have increased.”
Hamas warned this Friday that casualties among Israeli hostages “have increased” and that those who are still alive do so in “extremely difficult conditions.”
Israel has said that about a hundred hostages remain detained in Gaza after acknowledging the deaths of 31 of them on Tuesday.
Hezbollah vows that Israel will respond “with blood” to attacks in southern Lebanon
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The leader of Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, promised this Friday that Israel will respond “with blood at the price of shedding blood” after the bombings on Wednesday in southern Lebanon in which, according to the Islamist organization, three of its leaders and 10 other civilians.
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire along the Lebanon-Israel border since the Gaza war broke out in October, in their deadliest clash in nearly 20 years.
Two of those injured in the attack at a bus stop in central Israel die.
Two of those injured in the attack by an armed man against people waiting at a bus stop in central Israel have died, according to the hospital to which they had been transferred, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Previously, the Israeli ambulance service, Magen David Adom (the Red Star of David) had reported six injuries, one of them in critical condition and two others in serious condition.
A group burns tires and tries to prevent the transit of humanitarian aid around the Rafah crossing
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This Friday, a group of people burned tires this Friday on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, bordering Egypt, an official from the Crossing and Border Authority of the Palestinian enclave, controlled by Hamas, reported on condition of anonymity.
After this action, they opened the gate on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, and attacked the trucks transporting humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
Macron makes explicit his rejection of an Israeli offensive in Gaza: “It would lead to an unprecedented humanitarian disaster
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The French president, Emmanuel Macron, made explicit this Friday his rejection of an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah, the town in southern Gaza where more than a million Palestinians displaced from other parts of the Strip by the war take refuge.
In a joint press conference with Jordan's King Abdullah, Macron said such an operation "would only lead to an unprecedented humanitarian disaster and would be a turning point in this conflict."
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 20:00
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Biden says he had “extensive conversations” with Netanyahu about a ceasefire in Gaza
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, revealed this Friday that he has held “extensive conversations” in recent days with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he has urged to agree to a temporary ceasefire that would allow the release of the hostages still in the Gaza Strip.
“I have had extensive conversations with the prime minister of Israel in recent days, almost an hour at a time.
And I have argued to him that I believe very strongly that there should be a temporary ceasefire to remove the hostages.
I still have hope that it can be achieved,” he stated in statements to the press at the White House.
“In the meantime, I hope that a massive ground offensive does not take place.”
Biden, who has strongly defended Israel's right to defend itself after the October 7 attack by the Islamist group Hamas, has appeared in public increasingly distant from Netanyahu's positions due to the nearly 30,000 civilian deaths, according to sources from Hamas, in the Gaza Strip.
(Efe)
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 19:51
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A group burns tires and tries to prevent the passage of humanitarian aid around the Rafah crossing
This Friday, a group of people burned tires this Friday on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, bordering Egypt, an official from the Crossing and Border Authority of the Palestinian enclave, controlled by Hamas, reported on condition of anonymity.
After this action, they opened the gate on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, and attacked the trucks transporting humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
This information has been confirmed by the Egyptian channel Al Qahera News, close to Egyptian intelligence, which has added that agents of the Palestinian police (controlled by Hamas in the enclave) have gone to the pass to try to control the situation.
However, and contrary to what the rumors that have circulated on social networks stated, the attackers have not entered the step itself.
There is no information about the identity of the group.
However, in recent weeks Israeli ultranationalists, backed by sectors of the Government, have concentrated on the border crossings towards the Gaza Strip to try to prevent the passage of aid to what they consider enemies of Israel.
This situation occurs at a time of high tension in the extreme south of the Palestinian enclave due to the possibility of an offensive being unleashed in that area that borders Egypt.
(Efe)
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 18:51
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Hamas warns that casualties among Israeli hostages “have increased”
Hamas warned this Friday that casualties among Israeli hostages “have increased” and that those who are still alive do so in “extremely difficult conditions.”
Israel has said that about a hundred hostages remain detained in Gaza after acknowledging the deaths of 31 of them on Tuesday.
“We have warned [Israel] dozens of times about the dangers to which its hostages are exposed,” said the spokesman for Hamas's armed wing, Abu Obeida, in an audio message.
“For months, we have tried to protect and care for the lives of these hostages, as our main humanitarian objective is to free our own prisoners and realize the legitimate rights of our people.”
“We did not want the situation to reach this point, but the [Israeli] leaders ignored us,” he accused.
(Reuters)
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 16:58
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Israel says it has no plans to deport Palestinians from Gaza
Israel has no plans to deport the Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said this Friday, adding that it would coordinate its plans for hundreds of thousands of refugees in the city of Rafah with neighboring Egypt.
The deep concern that Palestinians could be expelled from the Gaza Strip has loomed large for both Palestinians and their Arab neighbors since Israel launched its attack in response to the October 7 attack by Hamas.
Israel is ready to attack Rafah, and several sources have said that contingency plans are being drawn up in Egypt to accommodate the Palestinians if the situation became critical.
Satellite images have revealed that Cairo is preparing spaces on the border that NGOs say could be used to host refugees if necessary.
Katz said Israel had no choice but to enter Rafah, as fighters from the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas were using the city as cover.
“We have no intention of deporting any Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip,” Katz said.
“Israel does not want to harm any Palestinian civilians;
That is why we move them to safe areas while Hamas tries to prevent it.
“We have no intention of governing civilian life in Gaza after the war.”
This position is not shared by the entire Israeli Government, whose most ultra sectors have proposed the mass expulsion of Palestinians from the enclave and the reconstruction of the Israeli colonies abandoned in 2006.
Asked where the city's hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would go, Katz has suggested that once Khan Younis, Gaza's second city, was “liberated” from Hamas militants, they could return there or to the west of the enclave. .
Most of Israel's allies, the UN and several NGOs have warned that the expulsion of refugees to Egypt would be a catastrophe.
Katz has downplayed that option and has assured that Israel was discussing how to evacuate the refugees with the United States, but that it would also coordinate with Egypt.
"We will deal with Rafah after talking to Egypt about it. We will coordinate it, have a peace agreement with them and find a place that will not harm the Egyptians," Katz promised.
"We will coordinate everything and will not harm their interests."
(Reuters)
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 16:09
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Hezbollah vows that Israel will respond “with blood” to attacks in southern Lebanon
The leader of Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, promised this Friday that Israel will respond “with blood at the price of shedding blood” after the bombings on Wednesday in southern Lebanon in which, according to the Islamist organization, three of its leaders and 10 other civilians.
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire along the Lebanon-Israel border since the Gaza war broke out in October, in their deadliest clash in nearly 20 years.
“The response to the massacre should be to continue and intensify the resistance work on the front,” he stated in a televised speech.
“The price of shedding the blood of our women and children, murdered these days, will be paid by the enemy with blood.”
(Reuters)
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 15:40
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Israel affirms that it will “coordinate” with Egypt to define the future of the Rafah refugees
The Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, assured this Friday that his country “will coordinate” with Egypt to guarantee that Cairo's interests are not harmed.
Egypt, which has had a peace agreement with Israel since 1978, has strongly opposed any movement of Palestinian refugees to its territory.
Just yesterday, the second vice president of Parliament, Mohamed Abu El-Enein, declared that Cairo's patience "has its limits" and that it could end if "the red lines are crossed."
Today, Friday, satellite images were made public showing Egypt preparing a patch of land right on its border with the Gaza Strip that, according to an NGO, could be used to accommodate Palestinian refugees expelled from the enclave.
However, Katz, attending the Munich Security Conference (Germany), has insisted that the offensive against Rafah, where more than a million Palestinian refugees are gathered, is going to be carried out.
“The State of Israel will have to deal with Rafah because we cannot leave Hamas there,” he said.
The minister has suggested that those displaced from Rafah return to Khan Younis, eight kilometers to the north and bombed relentlessly by Israeli forces.
(Reuters)
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 14:56
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Two of those injured in the attack at a bus stop in central Israel die
Two of those injured in the attack by an armed man against people waiting at a bus stop in central Israel have died, according to the hospital to which they had been transferred, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Previously, the Israeli ambulance service, Magen David Adom (the Red Star of David) had reported six injuries, one of them in critical condition and two others in serious condition.
The Israeli Police have stressed in a message on their account on the social network X that "a terrorist has arrived at the bus stop, apparently in a vehicle, and has shot several people before being neutralized by a civilian who was there." .
The authorities have confirmed that the perpetrator of the attack has died.
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 14:35
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Macron makes explicit his rejection of an Israeli offensive in Gaza: “It would lead to an unprecedented humanitarian disaster”
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, made explicit this Friday his rejection of an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah, the town in southern Gaza where more than a million Palestinians displaced from other parts of the Strip by the war take refuge.
In a joint press conference with Jordan's King Abdullah, Macron said such an operation "would only lead to an unprecedented humanitarian disaster and would be a turning point in this conflict."
“I share the fears of Jordan and Egypt about a forced and massive displacement of the population,” he said, in reference to a possible flight of Gazans from the Strip towards Egypt or other places, if Israel finally carries out the offensive in Rafah.
For King Abdullah, this exodus would have “catastrophic consequences.”
Once again, Macron has stated that “the absolute priority is a ceasefire for the immediate release of the hostages [kidnapped by Hamas in Israel on October 7]” and has described as “intolerable” the number of Palestinian civilians killed in Gaza since the beginning of the Israeli offensive, which has now reached 28,775, to which we must add 68,552 wounded.
(Reuters)
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 13:44
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At least six injured in a shooting at a bus stop in central Israel
At least people have been injured after being shot by an individual at a bus stop in central Israel, according to the Israeli ambulance service.
According to the police, the attacker has been “neutralized.”
Police spokesman Eli Levy told army radio that a suspect opened fire on people at the bus stop at the Masmiya intersection, wounding several.
He added that the attacker has been “neutralized”, without giving further details, and that the police director had gone to the scene to determine the type of incident.
According to the Israeli ambulance service, which speaks of a “terrorist attack”, six people have been evacuated to hospitals, a 20-year-old man in critical condition and two men aged 16 and 65 in serious condition.
Según las informaciones recogidas por la emisora pública israelí, Kan, el atacante ha abierto fuego desde un vehículo y ha muerto posteriormente tras ser tiroteado por un soldado que se encontraba en la zona, sin que las autoridades israelíes se hayan pronunciado por ahora.
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 13:06
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Tiendas de campaña de desplazados palestinos junto a la valla fronteriza entre Gaza y Egipto en Rafah. / IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA / REUTERS
Qué ha pasado en las últimas horas
Estas son las últimas noticias sobre la guerra entre Israel y Hamás en Gaza a las 12.45 de este viernes, 16 de febrero:
- Egipto construye junto a Gaza una zona en la que podría albergar a desplazados palestinos. Las autoridades egipcias están construyendo un muro de hormigón en el noreste de la península del Sinaí, cerca de la frontera sur de Gaza, que empieza a rodear un gran perímetro de tierra que está siendo nivelado, según muestran imágenes de satélite publicadas este jueves. Las obras están destinadas a establecer una zona de alta seguridad a poca distancia del enclave palestino en preparación para una eventual recepción de refugiados gazatíes en caso de que se produzca un éxodo masivo hacia territorio egipcio, según ha informado la Fundación Sinaí de Derecho Humanos, una organización local, citando a dos contratistas locales. Egipto no se ha pronunciado.
- Israel dice haber detenido en el Hospital Al Naser a 20 milicianos de Hamás que participaron en los ataques del 7 de octubre. El Ejército de Israel ha asegurado este viernes haber detenido a “decenas” de personas en el interior del hospital Al Naser, en Jan Yunis, en el sur de Gaza. Entre ellas, afirma Israel, hay 20 “terroristas” que participaron en los ataques perpetrados el 7 de octubre por Hamás.
- Cuatro pacientes murieron en el hospital Naser tras la incursión del ejército israelí. La reciente incursión del ejército israelí en el hospital Naser, el más importante del sur de la franja de Gaza, causó un corte eléctrico total que ocasionó la muerte de al menos cuatro pacientes en cuidados intensivos y pone en riesgo la vida de otros, incluyendo tres bebés, según ha denunciado este viernes el Ministerio de Sanidad del enclave palestino.
- Netanyahu rechaza “los dictados internacionales para imponer a Israel un Estado palestino”. El primer ministro israelí, Benjamín Netanyahu, ha rechazado “los dictados internacionales” sobre un acuerdo de paz definitivo con los palestinos que incluya un Estado palestino, asegurando que depende exclusivamente de Israel. Asegura que “Israel seguirá oponiéndose al reconocimiento unilateral de un Estado palestino” porque tras los atentados del 7 de octubre sería una “recompensa” al terrorismo.
- Biden insiste a Netanyahu en que no ataque Rafah sin un plan para proteger a los civiles. El presidente de EE UU, Joe Biden, ha insistido de nuevo al primer ministro israelí, Benjamín Netanyahu, en que, si realmente piensa lanzar una operación militar por tierra en Rafah, debe poner sobre la mesa un plan “creíble y ejecutable” para proteger a los civiles. En Rafah, en el extremo sur de Gaza, se hacinan más de un millón de personas, desplazadas de otras zonas de la Franja por la guerra.
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 12:45
El País
Israel dice haber detenido en el Hospital Al Naser a 20 milicianos de Hamás que participaron en los ataques del 7 de octubre
El Ejército de Israel ha asegurado este viernes haber detenido a “decenas” de personas en el interior del hospital Al Naser, en Jan Yunis, en el sur de Gaza. Entre ellas, afirma Israel, hay 20 "terroristas" que participaron en los ataques perpetrados el 7 de octubre por Hamás.
“Hasta ahora, durante la operación han sido arrestados más de 20 terroristas que participaron en la masacre del 7 de octubre y a decenas de sospechosos que han sido trasladados para su interrogatorio”, ha informado el ejército israelí en un comunicado. La operación, que sigue en marcha, se desencadenó el jueves en base a información de inteligencia que aseguraba que Hamás ocultaba allí a rehenes secuestrados el 7 de octubre o cuerpos de algunos de ellos, además de albergar “terroristas”.
“Durante las inspecciones en el área del hospital, los militares localizaron morteros, granadas y otras armas que pertenecen a la organización terrorista Hamás”, afirma el ejército, acusando de nuevo al grupo palestino de actuar “sistemáticamente desde hospitales e infraestructuras civiles”.
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 12:29
El País
Cuatro pacientes murieron en el hospital Naser tras la incursión del ejército israelí
La reciente incursión del ejército israelí en el hospital Naser, el más importante del sur de la franja de Gaza, causó un corte eléctrico total que ocasionó la muerte de al menos cuatro pacientes en cuidados intensivos y pone en riesgo la vida de otros, incluyendo tres bebés, según ha denunciado este viernes el Ministerio de Sanidad del enclave palestino.
Como consecuencia de la operación militar israelí en el hospital, que comenzó el jueves tras 25 días de asedio, “el suministro eléctrico se cortó completamente en el Complejo Médico Naser”, lo que provocó “la muerte de cuatro pacientes al amanecer de hoy”, informa un comunicado del ministerio, controlado por el grupo islamista Hamás.
Sanidad asegura que “en cualquier momento” podrían morir otros pacientes en cuidados intensivos, así como tres bebés que necesitan un suministro ininterrumpido de oxígeno, y denunció que dos mujeres dieron a luz “en condiciones inhumanas, sin electricidad, sin agua, sin comida y sin calefacción”. (Efe)
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 11:49
El País
Imágenes de satélite de la ciudad de Rafah antes y después de la llegada de palestinos desplazados por los bombardeos de Israel. / Google / Maxar Technologies
Las imágenes de satélite que muestran el hacinamiento de más de un millón de desplazados palestinos
La compañía Maxar Technologies ha publicado imágenes de satélite en las que se puede observar el hacinamiento de los cientos de miles de palestinos que se han desplazado a la ciudad de Rafah, en la frontera con Egipto, huyendo de los bombardeos israelíes. En la imagen primera imagen, de 2024, se observa la zona de la ciudad cercana a la frontera antes de que llegasen los refugiados (imagen de la derecha, publicada este viernes por Maxar).
La agencia de la ONU para los refugiados palestinos, la UNRWA, estimó en los primeros días de febrero que en la gobernación de Rafah se encontraban hacinados alrededor de dos tercios de los 1,7 millones de personas desplazadas en la Franja, más de un millón de personas. La situación humanitaria en la zona está marcada por una aguda escasez de agua potable, comida, medicinas y refugio, lo que ha empujado a miles de gazatíes a instalarse en tiendas levantadas a pocos metros de la valla fronteriza con Egipto. Pese a la frágil situación humanitaria, el primer ministro de Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu, avanzó el sábado que había ordenado planificar un asalto a Rafah, pero hasta ahora no se ha detallado ningún plan para evacuar a quienes se encuentran allí atrapados.
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 10:46
Marc EspañolCairo (EGIPTO)
Egipto construye junto a Gaza una zona en la que podría albergar a desplazados palestinos
Las autoridades egipcias están construyendo un muro de hormigón en el noreste de la península del Sinaí, cerca de la frontera sur de Gaza, que empieza a rodear un gran perímetro de tierra que está siendo nivelado, según muestran imágenes de satélite publicadas este jueves. Las obras están destinadas a establecer una zona de alta seguridad a poca distancia del enclave palestino en preparación para una eventual recepción de refugiados gazatíes en caso de que se produzca un éxodo masivo hacia territorio egipcio, según ha informado la Fundación Sinaí de Derecho Humanos, una organización local, citando a dos contratistas locales. Egipto no se ha pronunciado.
Los trabajos arrancaron el lunes, y coinciden con la amenaza israelí de asaltar Rafah, la única ciudad de Gaza que todavía no ha sido atacada por las tropas terrestres israelíes y en la que se hacina más de la mitad de la población de la Franja, más de un millón de personas. En las imágenes por satélite se puede observar una extensión de terreno siendo aplanada, con un muro erigiéndose a su alrededor. El perímetro se encuentra en una zona colchón establecida por las autoridades egipcias en la última década entre Gaza y el Sinaí.
In parallel to these works, Cairo has rushed in the last two weeks to reinforce the physical border that separates its territory from Gaza, which consists of two concrete walls and an iron and steel fence, and has ordered a greater deployment military in the area, in an attempt to strengthen its position and try to avoid a mass expulsion of Palestinians.
ACT.16 FEB 2024 - 10:45