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: Hamas health authority reports over 30,000 deaths in the Gaza Strip
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Update from March 7th, 10:51 p.m.:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is insisting on a military operation in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, despite international criticism.
The army will "continue to target all Hamas battalions throughout the Gaza Strip - and this includes Rafah, Hamas' last stronghold," Netanyahu said, according to his office.
“Anyone who tells us that we shouldn’t operate in Rafah is telling us that we should lose the war.” That won’t happen, emphasized Israel’s head of government.
There is international pressure.
“But especially when international pressure increases, we have to come together.
We must stand together against attempts to end the war.”
A possible Israeli military operation in the city of Rafah is extremely controversial.
In the town near the border with Egypt, around 1.5 million Palestinians are currently seeking refuge from the fighting in other parts of the coastal strip in a confined space and under miserable conditions.
Israel at war: Aid deliveries for Gaza – USA wants to create a temporary port
Update from March 7th, 6:46 p.m.:
Together with international partners, the USA wants to set up a temporary port on the coast of the Gaza Strip.
A high-ranking government representative announced that additional humanitarian aid would be brought into the country by sea, reported the
dpa
.
The aim is to support the suffering population in the Gaza Strip.
The main part of the port will be a temporary pier for docking larger ships.
This makes it possible to deliver medicine, water, food and emergency shelter.
This would make it possible to deliver hundreds of “additional truckloads of relief supplies per day,” another US government official said.
A delivery should initially take place via Cyprus, which will be made possible by a coalition of the US military and other partners.
According to the dpa
, it will still take a few weeks of preparation before deliveries can begin
.
No further details have currently been published.
The humanitarian situation of the population in the Gaza Strip has been worsening dramatically for weeks.
Some United Nations representatives have already warned of the starvation of thousands of civilians.
Despite ongoing negotiations for a possible ceasefire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is restricting humanitarian aid.
Baerbock calls for border crossings into the Gaza Strip to be opened for humanitarian aid
Update from March 7th, 5:43 p.m.:
Annalena Baerbock (Greens) has called for additional border crossings to be opened into the Gaza Strip to deliver relief supplies.
After a meeting with her British counterpart David Cameron, the Foreign Minister said: “The Israeli government must finally open more border crossings for humanitarian deliveries and ensure that this aid arrives, that is their responsibility.” Cameron joined the minister and called for 5,000 Trucks of relief supplies per day “if we want to avoid famine.”
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Destruction in the Gaza Strip - Baerbock calls for more aid deliveries.
USA wants to set up a temporary port to supply the civilian population.
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The UN currently estimates that around 2.2 million people in the Gaza Strip are on the verge of famine, reported
AFP
.
The situation is particularly serious in the north of the area, as the Israeli army has not yet allowed aid deliveries there.
Israel's army announces internal investigation into actions before war with Hamas
South Africa had already sued Israel at the International Court of Justice at the end of December.
Now the country is again taking urgent action against Israel.
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Update from March 7th, 3:45 p.m.:
The Israeli army has announced internal investigations into its own errors that could have led to the Hamas attack on October 7th.
The investigation focuses on possible errors between March 2018 and October 10, 2023, the
Times of Israel
reported .
The focus should be on four main topics:
The army's assessment of its own defense and its operational plans against threats from the Gaza Strip
The Israeli intelligence service's assessment and questioning of Hamas and the danger it poses
An examination of the decisions and possible mistakes made on the eve of October 7th
An analysis of the military clashes from October 7th to 10th to recapture southern Israel
“We experienced difficult incidents at the beginning of the fighting, we failed to protect civilians, a task of utmost importance,” said IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi.
“If we don’t courageously analyze what we have done, it will be difficult for us to learn from it and improve.” Results of the investigations should be available at the beginning of June.
Hamas-controlled health authority reports over 30,000 dead Palestinians
Update from March 7th, 10:55 a.m.:
According to the local health authority, at least 30,800 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip.
At least 72,298 people have been injured since the war began.
In the past 24 hours alone, 83 dead and 142 injured were counted, the Palestinian authority said.
The United Nations has repeatedly described this information as realistic.
The number of victims could be even higher, as many people are missing and are probably buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
The numbers cannot be independently verified.
South Africa appeals again to the UN court over the humanitarian situation in Gaza
Update from March 7th, 7:00 a.m.:
Israel is coming under increasing international pressure in the Gaza war because of the catastrophic humanitarian situation.
South Africa urgently asked the International Court of Justice in The Hague to order Israel to allow aid into the Gaza Strip.
The reason for this is “widespread famine,” according to a statement from the court in The Hague.
At the end of December, South Africa sued Israel before the International Court of Justice for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention committed in the Gaza war.
The UN court ruled in an interim ruling that Israel must take protective measures to prevent genocide.
"In view of the new facts and changes in the situation in Gaza - in particular the widespread famine - caused by Israel's ongoing egregious violations" of the Convention, South Africa is compelled to request further interim orders, it said on Wednesday.
Houthi attack kills two civilian sailors, US says
Update from March 6, 7:35 p.m.:
A missile fired by Houthi fighters in Yemen has reportedly hit a merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden, according to US officials.
The missile killed two people, the
Washington Post reports.
They are the first known fatalities in the Houthis' months-long campaign of violence against maritime traffic.
At least six other sailors were injured and the crew abandoned the ship, a US official said, according to the
Washington Post
.
Hamas had previously said it would continue to negotiate a ceasefire agreement through mediators.
Talks are underway in Egypt, a day after an Israeli government spokesman expressed hope that an agreement could be reached.
Israel kills more alleged terrorists
Update from March 6th, 10:32 a.m.:
Israel's military says it has killed five more people involved in the Hamas massacre in Israel during its fighting in the Gaza Strip.
In further attacks on Tuesday, around 20 terrorists were also killed in the center of the city of Chan Yunis, the army said on Wednesday.
In another quarter of the largest town in the southern Gaza Strip, several people were killed in a helicopter operation - the military spoke of terrorists.
Israeli soldiers also confiscated a large amount of weapons and ammunition in the area.
The army's statements could not initially be independently verified.
On the way to the northern Gaza Strip – truck convoy with food looted
Update from March 6th, 6:55 a.m.:
According to the World Food Program, a convoy of trucks carrying food for the people in the north of the embattled Gaza Strip was turned away by Israeli soldiers and then looted by a crowd.
As the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) announced on Tuesday in Rome, the convoy consisted of 14 trucks.
He was turned away by Israeli forces after a three-hour wait at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint.
The trucks were diverted and later stopped by a large crowd of desperate people.
They looted the food shipments and took about 200 tons of them, the WFP statement said.
Although the convoy did not make it to the north of the closed coastal area "to provide food to the hungry, the WFP will continue to explore all options to achieve this," the WFP quoted its deputy executive director Carl Skau as saying.
Large quantities of food needed to avert famine in the northern Gaza Strip could only be transported by road.
Update from March 5th, 5:04 p.m.:
According to the Israeli government, the risk of military escalation is growing on the border between Israel and Lebanon.
Israel feels obliged to diplomacy, explains Defense Minister Joaw Gallant.
“But Hezbollah’s aggression brings us to a critical juncture in making decisions about our military activities in Lebanon.”
Hezbollah in Lebanon, like Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is supported by Iran.
Since the beginning of the Gaza war, there have been increased exchanges of fire on the border between Israel and Lebanon.
This has increased concerns that a war will break out here too.
Defense Secretary Gallant made the comments after a meeting with US envoy Amos Hochstein, who is mediating in the conflict.
According to Hamas, the number of surviving hostages is unclear
Update from March 5, 6:40 a.m.:
According to a leading representative, the radical Islamic Hamas does not know how many of the hostages it kidnapped in the major attack on Israel are still alive.
“Of the prisoners, we don't know exactly who is alive and who is dead,” former Hamas health minister Bassem Naim told the
AFP
news agency from Cairo on Monday .
“There are multiple prisoners, held by multiple groups in multiple locations,” Naim continued.
Some of the hostages were “killed in attacks or through starvation.”
The exact number of hostages alive and killed can only be verified after a ceasefire.
Such a ceasefire and the release of the hostages are currently being negotiated under international mediation in Cairo.
Update from March 4th, 4:56 p.m.:
According to an Israeli media report, Israel's right-wing extremist Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for an end to the negotiations over the release of the hostages still held in the Gaza Strip.
According to the newspaper Haaretz
, the politician said at a meeting of his party on Monday that his party believes it is necessary to order the cessation of the talks, which also involve a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza war
.
Instead, it is necessary to move into “a new phase of intense fighting,” the paper further quoted Ben-Gvir, who is also Minister of National Security, as saying.
On Monday, representatives from the mediating states USA, Qatar and Egypt met with the Islamist Hamas for the second day of a round of talks in Cairo.
Egypt's state-affiliated television channel
Al-Kahira News
quoted an unnamed senior Egyptian source as saying there was "significant progress" in the talks.
No details were given.
Hostage deal in sight?
Talks in Cairo are expected to show “significant progress”.
Update from March 4th, 1:10 p.m.:
According to Egyptian state television, “significant progress” has been made in Cairo in the difficult international negotiations over a ceasefire in the war between Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas.
Accordingly, mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the USA as well as Hamas representatives continued their talks in the Egyptian capital on Monday.
Israel was not represented at the talks.
The mediators have been trying for weeks to reach an agreement for a ceasefire before the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, which begins on March 10th or 11th.
Current proposals include a six-week pause in fighting, the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and further aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip.
However, Hamas insists on the withdrawal of all Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to pursue the complete destruction of the Islamist Palestinian organization and is also sticking to the attack plans for the southern city of Rafah.
Update from March 4th, 11:00 a.m.:
According to the local health authority, at least 30,534 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the Israeli military offensive began.
Almost 72,000 people were injured, the authority said.
Most of them are women and children.
The number of victims could be much higher, as many people are buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
The United Nations has repeatedly stated that it considers the Palestinian Authority's figures to be realistic.
US Vice President Harris criticizes Israel
Update from March 4th, 7:30 a.m.:
US Vice President Kamala Harris has accused Israel of a lack of efforts to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
“The people of Gaza are starving, the conditions are inhumane,” Harris said in Selma, Alabama.
Harris spoke of a “humanitarian catastrophe” and called on Israel’s government to act.
“The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase aid deliveries.
There are no excuses.”
Netanyahu does not want to give in to “delusional” Hamas demands in the Israel-Gaza war
First report from March 4th:
Tel Aviv/Cairo - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that Hamas give in before further negotiations on a ceasefire and the release of further hostages in the Gaza war.
First, as requested, the Islamist organizations must submit a list with the names of the hostages still alive in their control, said the right-wing head of government in a speech in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening.
Netanyahu said it was too early to say whether there would be a concept for a deal in the next few days.
“We are making great efforts to be successful, but one thing is clear to you – we will not capitulate to Hamas' delusional demands,” affirmed the head of government, who is under pressure domestically over the hostage issue.
According to Israeli media, the fact that Benny Gantz, minister in Israel's war cabinet, traveled to Washington for talks without Netanyahu's consent caused sharp criticism internally.
Gantz is pushing for an agreement and has said that the release of the hostages is more urgent and important than Netanyahu's goal of destroying Hamas.
Israel's army reports more deaths during operations in the Gaza Strip
Meanwhile, the Israeli military continues the fight against Hamas and says it has now killed a prominent member of the Islamists who was responsible for recruiting terrorists.
The army announced on Sunday evening that Mahmoud Muhammad Abd Khad was also involved in raising funds for terrorism and to support Hamas's military activities.
The army had previously announced that “more than 100 terrorists” had been killed in northern Gaza.
In addition, 35 Hamas and Islamic Jihad facilities, including weapons depots and production facilities, were destroyed.
“Dozens of terrorists” were arrested.
All information provided by the Israeli military could not be independently verified.
Israel's military attacks Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said it was again attacking positions of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon.
Warplanes hit a Shiite militia military facility in the area of Aita ash-Sha'b and terrorist infrastructure in the area of the Lebanese border town of Kfarkela, the army said on Sunday evening.
During the day there were a number of rockets fired from Lebanon towards northern Israel.
This information also could not be independently verified.
(talk to agencies)