Israel is not willing to reverse its decision to dynamit the high fire in Gaza after having resumed the attacks on the enclave, which have left hundreds of dead in recent weeks, not accepting the passage to the second phase previously agreed with Hamas. The ultra -rightist government Benjamin Netanyahu will continue with the military offensive, which is endorsed by Donald Trump, and does not rule out going one step further and imposing a “full military government” in the Gaza Strip, although it is a territory that would correspond to the Palestinian state.
“The simple answer to your question is that it has not yet been decided by our government,” said Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, a journalist who has asked if Israel has plans to impose a military government in Gaza and if it is an issue they will put on the table in conversations with the Trump administration next week. The idea, therefore, survives in the Netanyahu Executive, which has no intention of stopping attacks on the Gazati civilian population.
“War can end tomorrow, with the liberation of our hostages, the demilitarization of Gaza and the withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Hamas and the Islamic jihad,” said the head of Israeli diplomacy, who has assured that, otherwise, they will continue with their “military efforts.” “They did not leave us another option,” said the minister, who has accused Hamas of rejecting the extension of the first phase of Alto El Fuego, which expired in early March. The truth is that it was Israel who refused to move on to the second phase of the truce, as it had been agreed, and that it should have entered into force on March 2 and that contemplates the delivery of the rest of living hostages in the enclave, the withdrawal of the troops and the final end of the war.
It also maintains the narrative that they fight a battle for Western values. “Now we are freeing the war of the free world. Iran, the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah attack us because we are close. But they do not make mistakes, their war is against Western civilization. Against their values and their way of life,” said Sa’ar in a press conference along with the high representative of the EU, Kaja Kallas, who has traveled to Israel and Palestine in full recruiting of the attacks. The minister has asked for “more support” to Europe.
The head of European diplomacy has placed the parties to “resume negotiations as the only way to end suffering on both sides” and to reinstate the high fire with the release of hostages and the reactivation of the arrival of humanitarian aid that Israel has blocked again under the premise that Hamas uses it. “We are seeing a dangerous climb,” said Kallas, who has also questioned Israel’s attacks in Syria and Lebanon.
Kallas, who was this Sunday in Egypt, signed a joint statement with the Arab countries in which they condemned the rupture of the high fire and air attacks and urged to go to the second phase of the truce. It also reiterated support to the Arab Paz Plan, which “guarantees that the Palestinian people will remain in their territory”, and categorically rejected “any displacement or expulsion of the Palestinian people outside their territory, Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem” warning of “the serious repercussions that would derive from such actions.”
Deportation Plan
However, Israel’s ultra -nationalist government continues with its ethnic cleaning plan, despite the warnings of the UN and other institutions regarding the forced displacement of more than 2 million gazaties. The Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, – one of the most radicals of the Executive – has offered financing for the expulsion of 10,000 Palestinians every day.
During the weekend, the Israeli government confirmed the creation of the Voluntary Emigration Office to apply and supervise its expulsion and deportation plan of the Palestinians of Gaza, based on the idea outlined by the US president himself, Donald Trump, to empty the strip of its inhabitants. This office will operate under the Ministry of Defense, according to Minister Israel Katz, and will be coordinated with international organizations to facilitate the transfer of Gazaties by air, earth and sea, the newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported.
More than 50,000 dead in Gaza
In addition, Israel bombed the Nasser hospital last night, the main one in southern Gaza, and killed at least two people, in addition to causing a fire, as the Palestinian Ministry of Health has denounced. The Army confirmed the attack against a “key terrorist in the organization of Hamas”, once again accusing the Islamist group of operating in civil infrastructure and putting the population at risk.
Hamas has admitted the death of Ismail Barhoum, a member of his political bureau, who was receiving treatment at Nasser Hospital. While the Ministry of Health has reported that the deceased is a 16 -year -old boy.
Hospitals and other medical centers have been repeatedly white of direct Israeli attacks and are very damaged after almost a year and a half of conflict, in which the health system of the strip has practically collapsed.
The number of deaths in Gaza since October 2023 has exceeded 50,000, apart from 113,000 injuries and thousands of disappeared under the debris, according to local authorities, which estimate that among the dead there are about 18,000 minors.
Source: www.eldiario.es
