The population of Gaza lives follows a script that is repeated again: bombing against housing buildings – or what remains of them -, schools, hospitals and tents or Palestinians fleeing the street; Massive eviction orders and, as a climax, the Israeli tanks that, this Friday, entered the ground in the strip. This Saturday at dawn, the Israel Army has confirmed that the attacks that have killed more than 300 people since Tuesday are aimed at “achieving operational control” of new areas of the Strip. They are the prelude – the “preparations,” says the statement – “to expand military operations” in the occupied Palestinian territory. That is, for an enlarged land invasion that ensures control over new areas of Gaza.
The announcement, released in the Army Telegram account, says that, this Friday, “Israel’s defense forces [el ejército israelí] They began to execute extensive attacks and mobilize troops to achieve operational control in areas of the Gaza Strip, as part of the preparations to expand the operations and meet the objectives of the war. “Those objectives are, collects the statement,” the release of hostages and the dismantling of the Hamas terrorist organization. “The note also affirms that the troops” will continue to operate to protect the Israeli civilians. ”
Most of the at least 300 Gazati who have perished under Israeli bombs in the last three days – 100 of them this Friday – were precisely civilians: Palestinian women and children. At the same time that Israel intensified its attacks since Tuesday, Donald Trump, the president of the main bomb supplier to Israel and his stronger valid, United States ,. No scale in Israeli territory.
On Friday, hours before Trump he left the United Arab Emirates, the Israeli tanks began to advance in three points of the northern area of Gaza: East Yabalia, the north of Beit Lahia and a third area in the northwest of the strip. Those two locations, Yabalia – especially their refugee camp – and Beit Lahia concentrated a good part of the bombings, which also hit other areas of the strip.
Four of those tanks surrounded and attacked a school in Beit Lahia, turned into a refuge for dozens of displaced families, local sources informed Efe.
When the dead exceeded hundred, according to the civil defense of the territory, well into Friday afternoon, the Israeli army began to launch octavillas on several neighborhoods of Beit Lahia, two schools that housed displaced and a sector of the Yabalia refugee camp.
“To all those present in this area, be in a shelter, a tent or a building, you are in a dangerous combat zone, so your safety runs,” said a text that ended up sentenced to those inhabitants to follow one of the steps of the Israeli script in Gaza: the nth order of eviction. “Go immediately to the south,” said the text in Arabic.
This Saturday, Palestinian Fuentes have reported new attacks in northern Gaza, which have hit, among other objectives in these two locations, two hospitals, the Indonesian hospital of Beit Lahia and the Hospital Al Awda, in Yabalia.
“Occupy Gaza”
The new military operation confirmed by the military statement is that the Israeli security cabinet to progressively expand the offensive in Gaza until it conquers it and occupy new territories. Without turning back. The ultra -rightist Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, said then: “We are occupying Gaza to stay.” This new invasion has, as is customary in Israel, a biblical resonance name: Gideon cars.
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz This Saturday, the Israeli army also described the bombings of recent days in Gaza as “an increase in pressure within the framework of negotiations for a hostage release agreement.” These military sources warned that, if there were no progress in these negotiations, Israel’s intention was to definitely launch the operation in the next few days.
The negotiations referred to in these sources are those that take place since Tuesday in Doha between Israel and Hamas to try to reach a high fire. However, the mandate of the delegation sent to the Catarí capital by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, is so limited that the possibility of an agreement seems remote. Netanyahu has reiterated this week that even if Hamas would release the 58 hostages still in his possession of the 251 that he took on October 7, 2023, he does not plan to stop war until he achieved a “total victory” over the Palestinian Islamist movement.
The Israeli Executive, insists on negotiating only the delivery of hostages by Hamas in exchange for a 45 -day truce that, in no case, as he has reiterated, would open the door to La Paz or to the withdrawal of his troops from the strip, as claims the Palestinian movement.
This Friday, Hamas accused the Israeli prime minister of “continuing to commit a genocide” in Gaza for “the growing massacre of the occupation [como suele referirse a Israel] against civilians, ”according to a statement released by the group on their Telegram channel.
The Israeli bombings that Gaza have beaten since Tuesday have added at least 300 names to a list of deaths of the health authorities of the strip that already amounts to more than 53,100.
