Israel will not stop, despite international pressure, its conquest plans from Ciudad de Gaza, which will be with blood and fire. “Soon the doors of hell will open on the heads of the murderers and rapists of Hamas in Gaza,” defense minister Israel Katz announced Friday morning. However, recent investigations reveal that, according to data from the Army itself, more than 80% of those killed in Gaza are civilians. Katz advanced that in the operation, whose preparations are almost ready, there will be “intense fire, evacuation of residents and maneuvers.” All this while the situation of famine in the city has been officially verified by the independent experts of the UN in the first statement of official famine registered in the Middle East.
In Ciudad de Gaza, the most populous city in the Strip, located in the northern third, survives about one million Palestinians, many of them displaced from other areas of the enclave after almost two years of permanent siege of the Israeli army. The reason wielded for the operation is, again, that Hamas “accepts Israel’s conditions to end the war, the main one of which is the release of all hostages and their disarmament,” Katz reiterated in Network X.
Although the minister re -cited the return of the hostages, a pretext that has served for the destruction of the strip from north to south from the beginning of the attacks in October 2023, the reality is that the taking will occur anyway; Although Hamas announced that he accepted a fire proposal with the mediation of Qatar that led to the return of the hostages, the Israeli prime minister himself, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in an interview broadcast on Thursday on Australian television that it is about eradicating the organization. “We are going to do it equally [tomar Ciudad de Gaza]. He never stated that we were going to leave Hamas there, ”he launched.
Since he launched the offensive after Hamas attacks 22 months ago, the elimination of the group is always one step away, according to Netanyahu’s argument and his executive, which even reproduces the same Dantesque expressions: the “doors of hell” were already going to open last February, according to the prime minister during an appearance in the middle of a visit to Washington, when a fragile was still in force. Israel ended up breaking. Netanyahu has been repeating since February 2024 that Israel is about to finish the offensive. He already said, for example, when he raised the occupation of Rafah as the end of the intense fighting.
International condemnation
With the exception of the US, whose president, Donald Trump, said that the decision to occupy the “dependent” strip of Israel, the criticism of the plans to enter the city of Gaza are also extended among the rest of the allies of Israel. The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, judged that the decision to move forward with the invasion is “wrong” and will only lead to “more bloodshed.” The French president, Emmanuel Macron, wrote in X on Thursday that “the military offensive that Israel is preparing in Gaza can only lead to disaster for both peoples and runs the risk of immersing the entire region in a permanent war cycle.”
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz also censored the plan in an interview last week. He estimated that the offensive resurgence could be charged hundreds of thousands of lives and the evacuation of the entire city. “Where are those people supposed to go?” He criticized. He also manifested against the Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares. “The escalation in Israeli military occupation must end. It will bring even more deaths and unjustified suffering,” he wrote Thursday in X.
This censorship adds to the unanimous condemnation of the EU and 21 countries of the plan to colonize east Jerusalem, which will prevent access to the city from the West Bank and divide the region into two into practice. Israel rejected international claims, which labeled “external attempt to impose a jihadist terrorist state in the heart of Israel,” according to a statement from his Foreign Ministry collected by EFE.
Internal opposition grows
Executive’s plans advance although a weak internal opposition begins to manifest. The Chief of the General Staff of the Defense, Eyal Zamir, was reluctant to the occupation due to the tiredness of the troops, which have been warming in the strip for almost two years. Also because the urban scenario of the operation can lengthen its duration and endanger hostages. He ended up yielding to the Executive’s belligerence.
Since the beginning of the contest, 450 Israeli soldiers have died in the strip and, according to the country October 7, 2023, but it is believed that only twenty is still alive).
The shy, but growing response of the Israeli civilian population either moves the prime minister. On Saturday a demonstration is scheduled in Tel Aviv that the Police threatened to veto if the influx provided by the calls of 5,000 to 500 people is not reduced. The forum for hostages and missing families also opposes the operation and celebrates periodic demonstrations on Saturdays. “We are in the midst of another premeditated scoring [de un acuerdo] On the part of Netanyahu, he affected in a statement cited by the newspaper Times of Israel. “The government is disconnected from the nation and is sacrificing its citizens,” he accused.
The famine is already official
And while this happens, the problems for the distribution of humanitarian aid continue, practically monopolized by the Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza, the organization of the organization sponsored by Israel that functions as a mousetrap in which the episodes of deaths of civilians in shots at the hands of soldiers or military contractors occur.
The system is a disaster, and the UN conclusion is that it is so by design. The situation of famine is official since this Friday in Gaza City, and is imminent in other areas of the strip. “After 22 months of incessant conflict, more than half a million people in the Gaza Strip face catastrophic conditions characterized by hunger, destitution and death,” says the report published this Thursday of the integrated classification of phases of food security (IPC), prepared by the Committee for the evaluation of the famine, an independent group, an independent group endorsed by the UN.
The IPC estimates that 514,000 people – a quarter of the Palestinians in Gaza – suffer from famine and warns that the figure will increase to 641,000 by the end of September.
The use of the word “famine” is not banal, but is internationally defined when three serious conditions are given: that at least 20% of the population suffers extreme food shortage, that one in three children is seriously malnourished, and that two people out of 10,000 die daily of hunger or malnutrition and diseases. It is the first time that it is declared in the Middle East, and the fifth in the last 15 years, after those of Somalia (2011), Sudan del Sur (2017 and 2020) and Sudan (2024).
“Just when it seemed that there were no words left to describe hell in Gaza, a new one is added: famine,” said the UN Secretary General, António Guterres. “This is not a mystery, it is a disaster caused by man and a failure of humanity,” he accused. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, recalled that “using hunger as a weapon is a war crime.”
The head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) of the UN General Secretariat, Tom Fletcher, denounced that the food accumulates at the borders due to Israel’s systematic obstruction. “A famine a few hundred meters from the food and a fertic land […] openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war, “he denounced.” It is a famine that will persecute us all. Allowed by indifference and sustained by complicity, ”he accused.
The United Kingdom Foreign Minister Pascal Lammy again insisted on a statement that Israel must “stop the military operation in Ciudad de Gaza, which is the epicenter of the famine”, a situation that is, in turn, “a moral scandal.”
The response of the Israeli Foreign Ministry to the cataract of international evidence and convictions to this manufactured crisis is that the IPC report is “invented”, “based on the lies of Hamas” and endorsed by organizations “with created interests”, in apparent allusion to the practical entire of the international humanitarian action sector.
Source: www.eldiario.es
