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At least 19 people have been killed and 23 have been injured this Saturday in another Israeli attack in Gaza City (north) against a group of Gazans who were waiting for the arrival of a humanitarian convoy, according to the authorities of the Strip, controlled by Hamas.
The attack occurred after Israeli troops prevented a convoy with food from the UN Refugee Agency (UNRWA) from reaching the north of the enclave for the second time this week.
Meanwhile, the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has visited the Rafah crossing, on Egypt's border with Gaza, to call for "an immediate humanitarian ceasefire" and promise that the UN will continue working to "expedite" the entry. of help in the enclave.
On the other hand, Hamas has assured that a 34-year-old Israeli hostage has died due to the "lack of medicine and food" and has warned that there are other hostages who are sick and require treatment.
In addition, more than 170 militants have died to date in clashes with Israeli troops in Gaza's main hospital, Al Shifa - located in Gaza City - according to the Jewish State's army.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health claims that five patients have also died in the fighting.
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The Israeli Defense Minister travels to the United States tomorrow for the first time since the war in Gaza began
The Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, will travel to the United States tomorrow, Sunday, for the first time since the start of the war in Gaza against Hamas to discuss with American officials the evolution of the conflict, the negotiations for a new truce and humanitarian needs.
“Tomorrow, the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, will travel to the United States on an official visit, at the invitation of the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin,” the Ministry of Defense reported in a statement.
Minister Gallant is scheduled to meet with his American counterpart, Secretary Austin;
with the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken – who visited Israel yesterday – and with the national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, among other senior officials.
“The parties will discuss the evolution of the war against the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza, the efforts made to return the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, humanitarian efforts and the measures necessary to guarantee regional stability,” the statement said.
Gallant will also raise the importance of “maintaining and further deepening the important cooperation between the defense establishments of both countries,” as well as issues related to “increasing forces and maintaining the qualitative military advantage of the State of Israel.”
Israeli media published this week that Gallant's announced visit to Washington aims to guarantee the supply of weapons from the United States after White House officials have suggested that President Joe Biden's administration could reconsider defense cooperation in the face of the high number of fatalities in Gaza, more than 32,100 – most of them children and women – in five months of war.
At the request of Washington, an Israeli delegation, led by the Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer;
and national security advisor Tzachi Hanegbi—two close allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—travel to the United States next week to hear alternative proposals to the ground offensive in Rafah.
Israel considers it essential for its objective of defeating Hamas, but the United States insists that it is a red line, since that city, at the southern end of the border enclave with Egypt, houses 1.4 million refugees.
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ACT.23 MAR 2024 - 21:47
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Gazan authorities denounce the death of 19 people in an Israeli attack while waiting for a humanitarian convoy
At least 19 Gazans have died and 23 have been injured in another Israeli attack at the Kuwait roundabout, in Gaza City (the largest city in the Strip and located in the north), against a group of people waiting for the arrival of a convoy. humanitarian, as the authorities of the Palestinian enclave have denounced.
Some victims have been transferred to Al Ahli hospital, but others have been left abandoned on the ground, according to the Press Office of the Government of the Strip, controlled by Hamas.
According to the Gazan Government, more than 400 Palestinians have died in Israeli attacks on humanitarian convoys, aid warehouses or food deliveries.
The attack occurred at one of the entrances to Gaza City, where in recent weeks dozens of people have died in similar circumstances since the so-called flour massacre, an episode in which a hundred Gazans died in a chaotic distribution. food truck in which Israeli troops opened fire on the crowd approaching the food trucks, which were also near the tanks.
“We call on all countries in the free world to pressure the occupation to stop the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing that [Israel] is waging against our Palestinian people.
We also ask you to end the famine immediately before it is too late,” the Gaza Press Office wrote in a statement.
“For the second time this week, Israeli authorities today prevented another UNRWA [UN Palestinian Refugee Agency] convoy carrying much-needed food from heading north, where people live on the brink of famine,” UNRWA Commissioner General, Philippe Lazzarini, lamented this Saturday.
The convoy that the head of this United Nations agency has referred to, in the crosshairs of the Israeli authorities who accuse it of links with Hamas, is the one that the people gathered at the Kuwait roundabout who were attacked were waiting for, according to the media. Palestinians.
“This is a man-made famine, an imminent famine that can still be avoided.
“Israel must allow the widespread delivery of food aid to the north, through UNRWA, the largest humanitarian organization in Gaza,” stressed Lazzarini, who indicated that the last time they were able to distribute food in the north was two months ago.
(Agencies)
ACT.23 MAR 2024 - 21:04