This Thursday marks
five months of war in the Gaza Strip
, where the Israeli government and its troops have unleashed an "unprecedented" humanitarian catastrophe, according to several NGOs, after the death of tens of thousands of civilians, the internal displacement of 1985 % of the population and the general lack of food and drinking water.
Adding to the picture are
deadlocked negotiations for a truce
, with
Hamas
abandoning talks in El Cario
until next week.
The war broke out on October 7 after a Hamas attack against Israel that left some
1,200 dead and 250 kidnapped.
Displaced Palestinians gather to look for food in Gaza.
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The Hamas delegation left Cairo on Thursday, where since Sunday it had been participating in negotiations for a truce with Israel in Gaza that will resume next week, according to media close to the Egyptian government.
Whitout deal
The representation of the Palestinian group left Egypt
leaving nothing on the table.
Everything indicates that it will be difficult for a pact between Hamas and Israel to take place before the start of Ramadan, on March 10, the
holy month for Muslims.
Palestinian sources familiar with the talks confirmed that the Hamas delegation left the Egyptian capital on Wednesday night and is now awaiting a response from the Israeli side.
These Palestinian sources, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of this matter, stated that the negotiations
reached a "dangerous turning point
that threatens the possibility of their success and reaching a final agreement."
Palestinian children among the remains of a bombed house.
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Regarding one of the points of the draft, always according to sources since Israel and Hamas have not officially commented on this information, the Palestinian group considered that the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip
is "unclear and "ambiguous"
because Israel offers to withdraw to the east of the enclave without specifying the places, while the Islamist group demands that it be
through specific and clear areas.
Regarding the ceasefire, the source stressed that
Israel did not provide any guarantees
regarding this demand from Hamas and all Palestinian factions.
Israel did not participate
in these meetings in Cairo ,
after Hamas said it could not provide it - it argued, due to logistical problems caused by the war - with
a list of names of the hostages who are still alive.
According to leaks, some of the 134 captives are in the hands of other groups or militias held incommunicado in Gaza, and
more than thirty of them are already dead,
which Hamas blames on Israeli bombings.
Gaza: humanitarian crisis and more than 30 thousand dead
The number of victims in the Gaza Strip due to Israel's military offensive continues to increase and has already reached
30,800 dead and 72,298 injured
, the enclave's Ministry of Health reported this Thursday, after five months of war that have caused
an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. precedents.
"In the last 24 hours, the Israeli occupation
committed nine massacres
against families in the Gaza Strip, causing 83 deaths and 142 injuries," the Hamas-controlled ministry reported.
Thus, in 153 days of war,
there are at least 30,800 dead and 72,298 wounded in the enclave
, 70% of them children and women, in addition to nearly
7,000 missing under the rubble
and other points until now inaccessible to ambulances, the ministry said. .
Mass graves for the burial of Palestinians killed in Israeli bombings.
Photo: Reuters
At least 35 people were killed in airstrikes targeting homes in Deir Al Balah, the center of the enclave, according to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.
In addition, tanks and artillery vehicles fired on civilians in Gaza City
as they waited for trucks with flour,
leaving three dead and 15 wounded, he said.
Hunger and thirst
The survivors in Gaza, among whom are
two million displaced people
- almost the entire population - continue to endure
an unprecedented humanitarian crisis,
between the widespread destruction of homes, the collapse of hospitals, the outbreak of epidemics and the shortage of drinking water and food that has reached
famine levels.
At least
20 Gazans died in the last two weeks from malnutrition and dehydration,
all of them
minors
except for a 72-year-old man, Health said.
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The Supreme Pontiff's demand for an end to violence, from the window of the Apostolic Palace.
According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF),
81% of homes in Gaza lack access to drinking water,
with internally displaced people being the most affected.
"The increase in cases of
watery and bloody diarrhea
can be directly attributed to the lack of availability of clean water, which poses a significant public health challenge" in Gaza, said the United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA).
The agency emphasized that "the food security situation remains extremely serious,
especially in northern
Gaza," where "people feed their children animal fodder and wild foods, which can have health consequences," such as malnutrition, nutritional deficiencies, toxicity or foodborne illnesses.
"This underscores
the urgent need for humanitarian assistance and intervention
to address the underlying causes of famine and ensure access to adequate food supplies," OCHA stressed.
Israel
maintains a blockade of the Strip by air, land and sea,
making it difficult for humanitarian aid provided by the international community to enter.
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Parachutes containing humanitarian aid fall from the sky after an airdrop in Rafah.
On Saturday, the United States carried out its first operation to send humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, which the UN says is under threat of famine as the war between Israel and Hamas continues.
Given the limited access by land, especially in the north of the enclave where the roads have been destroyed,
humanitarian aid drops from the air have increased
in recent weeks, although many of the packages
have fallen into the sea and even on the Israeli side. .
Since the war began on October 7, the United States, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan and France
have carried out 25 airdrops,
carrying more than 750 humanitarian aid packages, according to Israel, increasingly criticized for refusing a cease fire to alleviate the crisis in the enclave.
Gaza uninhabitable
Desperate from hunger, Gazans
have en masse looted several trucks with humanitarian aid
that managed to enter the enclave, and in a recent incident that left more than 100 dead,
the Israeli Army opened fire on the crowd.
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There are more than 700 injured.
The Foreign Ministry of the Palestinian National Authority, which governs small areas of the occupied West Bank, denounced this Thursday that
Israel is carrying out a "genocide" in Gaza
through "cases of poisoning among civilians, especially children and the sick, due to the spread of
toxins resulting from the lethal and prohibited weapons
that Israel uses above and below ground, in the grass and in the air.
"The entire Gaza Strip
has been transformed into an area uninhabitable
for human life," he summarized, expressing "astonishment at the failure of the international community not only to stop the war and protect Palestinian civilians, but to provide safe passage." to aid convoys safely.
Since the Hamas attack on October 7, the Israeli Army has deployed all its power by air, land and sea on the Strip, without any pause other than a ceasefire at the end of November that lasted a week and allowed the release of 105 hostages in exchange for the release of 240 Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails.
Despite international pressure for a ceasefire that would ease the conditions of the Gazans and the release of the hostages taken by Hamas, the negotiations appear to have reached a stalemate.
With information from EFE