The escalation of intense Israeli bombing of northern Gaza, hours after the announcement, has caused the death of at least 12 people, in addition to 20 people injured, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense. According to information published on social networks by a Gazan spokesperson, Mahmud Basal, the bodies of 12 “martyrs” have been recovered from the rubble of the residential block in the Sheikh Radwan Pool neighborhood that the Israeli Army attacked.
However, sources consulted by the Palestinian news agency WAFA indicate that rescuers have recovered the lifeless bodies of 18 people, while three other people have died in a bombing in the east of Gaza City. On the other hand, two more Palestinians have been killed in an attack against a house in Qizan Rashwan, south of Khan Yunis, in the southern part of the enclave.
Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip have not been the only ones perpetrated on Palestinian territory in the last 24 hours. The Israeli Army bombed the Jenin refugee camp, located north of the occupied West Bank, twice in one day, leaving another five Palestinians dead and several injured, according to the Red Cross.
Political analysts fear that the Jenin scenario will be transferred to other parts of the occupied West Bank, which is already experiencing a spiral of violence, which during 2024 caused the death of almost 500 Palestinians in the territory by Israeli fire, most of them militiamen from the camps. refugees, but also civilians, including at least 75 minors.
The latest deaths in Gaza come after the Prime Minister and also Foreign Minister of Qatar, Mohamed bin Abderrahman Al Thani, announced this Wednesday in Doha that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement to be established starting this Sunday.
The agreement contemplates a first phase of six weeks in which 33 Israeli hostages will be released in exchange for the release of more than 1,200 Palestinian prisoners. There are still 94 people captive in the Gaza Strip, 34 of them confirmed dead. To date, it had only been achieved in the last week of November 2023, when 105 hostages were released in exchange for 240 prisoners.
Comply with the truce
Regional leaders in the Middle East, such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Lebanon, have called this Wednesday for compliance with the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip agreed by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel.
The Egyptian president, Abdel Fattá al Sisi, urged this Wednesday to accelerate the delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip “to confront without any obstacles the current catastrophic humanitarian situation” and has celebrated the agreement between Hamas and Israel, a process of which he has formed part as mediator.
In a statement, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry positively assessed the mediators’ efforts to close the agreement between the parties and urged its “full compliance.” In this sense, he has highlighted the need to promote “immediate” international actions to deliver aid to Gaza with the aim of “facing the humanitarian catastrophe”, as well as to later rebuild the enclave.
For its part, the Lebanese prime minister’s office has stressed that they place all their hopes on the agreement “being sustainable”, as well as that Israel “adhering to it”. This includes leading to “a final solution” to the Palestinian conflict and granting the Palestinian people what are “their legitimate rights.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia has also spoken out, urging the withdrawal of the Israeli Army from the Palestinian enclave and other occupied territories, as well as the return of those kidnapped by the militias to their homes. Likewise, he has urged to take advantage of the agreement to address the reasons for the conflict, alluding to the right of the Palestinians to establish an independent State based on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has indicated in a message published on social networks that he hopes that the agreement “will be beneficial” for the region “and for all humanity” that will open the door to permanent peace. “We salute with respect the heroic people and brave sons of Gaza who bravely defended their land and freedom against Israel’s illegal and inhumane attacks. Turkey does not leave our Palestinian brothers alone in their fight against oppression and oppressors,” he said. added.
More than 46,000 Palestinians have died in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli attacks in more than fifteen months of war, which began on October 7, 2023, in retaliation for the Hamas attacks in Israel, which left some 1,200 dead and 251 kidnapped. .
