The Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip, governed by the Islamist group, registered five deaths related to hunger and malnutrition during Sunday. In a brief message, the Ministry indicated that the hospitals of the Gaza Strip registered “five deaths from famine and malnutrition” this Sunday, all of adults.
Since the Israeli offensive against Gaza began, after the attacks of Hamas del, at least 180 people have died of hunger or malnutrition, including 93 minors, according to the registration of the local health authorities published Monday.
Most deaths have been recorded during the last weeks, after months of blocking to the entry of humanitarian aid by Israel, which controls all accesses to the besieged territory. Between March 2 and May 19 the blockade was total, while the help flow is now very limited.
The situation has led the Israeli authorities to announce “humanitarian pauses” of the fighting on some routes to allow the few trucks with help that enter the enclave distribute the load, although most of them end up being looted by the desperate population.
Internal pressure for Netanyahu
In addition, dozens of old high army positions and intelligence services in Israel have asked the government on Monday by considering that the country is “reaping more losses than victories” lacking “true strategic military objectives.”
Among them are relevant figures of Israeli policy, such as former Prime Minister Ehud Barak or Yoram Cohen, former head of. In a video, they have lamented that the fighting in the strip has lengthened for “political reasons” instead of “purely military” issues.
That is why they have stressed that this offensive “could have ended a long time ago”, and they have urged the government to “end the war reaching the permanent fire that facilitates the return of all hostages” and that they continue in the Palestinian enclave.
“We have the duty to raise our voice and say what should be said,” said former Shin Bet Ami Ayalon director. “This war began as that, a war. It was a war of defense. But once the initial military objectives were achieved, it has ceased to be just that. It is now taking the state of Israel to a loss of security and identity,” he explained.
“This war began like that, a war. It was a war of defense. But once the initial military objectives were achieved, it has ceased to be just that. It is now taking the State of Israel to a loss of security and identity”
Amos Malka, former head of intelligence, has asserted that “this war could have ended a year ago with a more than enough operational victory.” However, Nadav Argaman, also of Shin Bet, has clarified that “now losses are basically accumulated.”
“We are facing the abyss of defeat,” said Tamir Pardo, former director of Mossad, who has admitted that “what the world sees today in Gaza is our creation.” “We hide under our own lie, and this lie is sold to the Israeli public and the entire world,” he added.
They have also warned that the country has a “messianic government that leads to the country along an irrational path.” “They are a minority, but the problem is that this minority controls politics,” Cohen lamented.
