Israel has killed this Thursday at least 114 people in Gaza, according to sources from Palestinian Civil Defense Services, in different air attacks in the north and south of the occupied Palestinian territory. The town with more victims is Jan Yunis, where at least 59 people have lost their lives. That city located in the southern half of the strip is being the target of successive bombings in recent days, which have been intensified since last Tuesday. That same day, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, began in Saudi Arabia that he has not included Israel and concludes this Thursday in the United Arab Emirates.
Among the victims of this day – among them 22 children -, Israeli air attacks have killed about 200 people in just 48 hours. This figure makes this Thursday the deadliest day in Gaza from the unilateral rupture of the last high fire by Israel on March 18.
The total list of deaths in the 19 months that lasts the Israeli invasive and offensive in the Strip has exceeded 53,000, according to the Ministry of Health of the Territory. Just when the Palestinians commemorate (catastrophe in Arabic), the flight or expulsion of their homes of 750,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949, before the progress of the Jewish militias and, later, of the army of the newly created state of Israel.
The Israeli bombs have reached housing buildings, at least two hospitals and areas full of tents where many Gazati families whose houses have been destroyed. Civil objectives that explain that most bodies wrapped in white shrouds that show Gaza’s images are women and children. This has been happening since the first Israeli bombings, which began in October 2023 in response to Hamas’s attack in Israel, in which almost 1,200 people died and another 251 were kidnapped.
The Israeli projectiles have also folded again on this day on the razed Yabalia refugee camp, in the north of the Palestinian enclave, where 13 of the hundred length of victims have died of victims who has counted so far the Civil Defense of Gaza.
One of the attacks last night has also left the European Hospital of Jan Yunis, bombarded for the second time in just 24 hours, the Ministry of Health of the Territory has reported.
After a first attack on Tuesday, the Israeli army said that, in the subsoil of the hospital, the new leader of Hamas in the Strip, Mohamed Sinwar, younger brother of Yahia Sinwar, the leader of the movement in the southern movement Rafah in October, was hidden. The European Hospital was the only one who still paid medical attention to the patients with the strip cancer, including pediatric patients, after the Israeli forces dynamited the Turkish-Palestinian friendship hospital on March 21.
Meanwhile, although the United States and Arab mediators like Qatar – the country where Trump stressed on Wednesday – press Israel and Hamas to reach a new fire, that horizon still seems distant. Last Tuesday, the day after Hamas would release as a “goodwill” gesture to Trump to Edan Alexander – a soldier with dual Israeli and American nationality – the Government of Benjamín Netanyahu announced the sending of a negotiating delegation to Doha to discuss a possible fire.
The Israeli team arrived in the capital of Qatar with a limited mandate, something that Netanyahu made clear in a statement. The text stressed that these negotiations with Hamas “would only pass under fire”; that is, without stopping the war.
The resurgence of this week’s Israeli offensive has confirmed that prognosis. Hamas has denounced this Thursday “a military escalation” in Gaza parallel to the negotiations of that possible truce. The Palestinian movement has accused in a statement to Netanyahu to want “an endless war” and to be indifferent to the fate that hostages can run.
“At a time when mediators are making intense efforts to re -run the negotiation, the Zionist occupation [como se suele referir a Israel] It responds to those efforts with military pressure on innocent civilians, ”says the note.
A high -aware Palestinian position of the negotiation that takes place in the Catarí capital has assured Reuters that “so far no progress has been made due to Israel’s insistence to continue the war.”
Netanyahu himself ruled out last Tuesday that Israel ends his offensive, even if he was released at 58 hostages, most of them and corpses, which are still in Gaza. If the group gave those captives, Israel would accept them, Netanyahu stressed, but “in no way” would stop attacks, he said. Then he added: “We can accept a stop the fire for some time, but we will go to the end.”
Israel’s security cabinet approved a plan to expand the offensive in Gaza the territories he takes on phases unanimously unanimously. “We are occupying Gaza to stay,” said Israeli finance minister, the ultra -rightist Bezalel Smotrich.
The “Witkoff Plan”
The Israeli executive, insists on negotiating only the delivery of hostages by Hamas in exchange for a 45 -day truce that, in no case, would open the door to peace or to the withdrawal of its troops, as the Palestinian movement claims.
That proposal – presented to Israel months ago by Trump’s special envoy for the region, Steve Witkoff – requires Hamas to free 10 kidnapped living and deliver half of the hostage bodies still in his hands. The Israeli government calculates that 23 captives in the strip are still alive and the rest are dead.
The so -called “Witkoff Plan” was rejected by Hamas, aware that its only negotiating trick is hostages. That asset has a diminishing power in the light that the Israeli government does not even maintain its initial speech that the release of the kidnapped is their priority in Gaza. Israel broke the previous fire on March 18, precisely not to have to go to the second phase of the pact, which opened the door to the release of the hostages, but demanded to end his aggression to Gaza.
Before, on the 2 of that month, of the entry of humanitarian aid in the strip-including food and medicines- that has left its population of just over 2.2 million people to the edge of the famine. Israel’s argument is that Hamas diverts humanitarian aid, something he has not offered or NGOs of those who work in Gaza.
