CAIRO (Reuters)-Hamas analysis of US President Donald Trump’s plan to Gaza extended for the third day on Wednesday, a source near the militant group, while other Palestinian factions rejected the proposal and Israel again bombarded the city of Gaza.
On Tuesday, Trump gave Hamas “three or four days” to respond to the plan he outlined this week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who supported the proposal to end Israel’s nearly two-year war against the Palestinian militant group.
“Accepting the plan is a disaster, rejecting it is another, there are only bitter choices here, but the plan is a Netanyahu plan articulated by Trump,” Reuters told Palestinian authority familiar with Hamas’s deliberations with other factions.
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“Hamas is interested in ending the war and genocide and will respond in the way that meets the larger interests of the Palestinian people,” he said, without going into detail.
New orders to leave south
Israeli planes and tanks bombed residential neighborhoods all night, residents of the city of Gaza said. Local health authorities said at least 35 people in Gaza were killed by the military on Wednesday, most of them in the city of Gaza.
An attack on the old town in the northwest of Gaza town seven people, while six who were housed in a school in another part of the city were killed in a separate attack, doctors said.
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Meanwhile, the Israeli military issued new orders for people to leave south and said they would no longer allow them to return to the north as the city of Gaza is the target of heavy bombing.
Defense Minister Israel Katz described the measure as “a tighter siege around Gaza to defeat Hamas,” saying that the Palestinians willing to go to the south would have to undergo an army check.
“This is the last opportunity for the Gaza residents who wish to dislodge themselves to the south and leave the isolated Hamas agents in the city of Gaza itself, given the continuity of large -scale operations of IDF (Israel forces),” Katz said.
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UN says more help is needed
Two more Palestinians, including a child, died of malnutrition and hunger in Gaza in the last 24 hours, the territory ministry of health said on Wednesday, raising deaths from these causes to at least 455 people, including 151 children since the beginning of the war.
The city of Gaza and neighboring areas are suffering from hunger, which will probably spread, afflicting more than half a million Palestinians, according to an August report from the Global IPC hunger monitor. Israel, which blocked all foods in Gaza for almost three months this year, decreased restrictions in July, allowing for more help.
The UN states that much more help is needed and that it cannot reliably distribute supplies in Gaza, blaming Israeli military restrictions on the movements and the collapse of law and order.
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Israel says there is no quantitative limit for the entry of food in Gaza and accuses Hamas of stealing the help, accusations that the Palestinian militant group denies.
