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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 13, 2024, p. 25
Deir Balah. As Israeli bombing continued, 46 people were killed yesterday in Gaza and 43 in Lebanon, while the United States affirmed that Israel has not violated the legislation regarding humanitarian aid for Gaza and therefore will not limit the shipment of weapons to the country. .
An attack on a house in the northern town of Beit Hanoun left 15 dead, including relatives of Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat.
Another bombing was launched on a residential area in the city of Deir Balah, killing six people, including two children, Al Jazeera reported.
An urban refugee camp in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, and a makeshift cafeteria in Muwasi, were the targets of another attack, leaving three and 11 people dead, respectively.
In the southern city of Khan Younis, another 11 deaths were reported after Israeli airstrikes hit several vehicles.
On the Lebanese front, five inhabitants of a house for displaced people died in Beirut, a security official reported.
In the town of Joun, in the Chouf district, the number of civilian casualties rose to 15, including eight women and four children, the Ministry of Health reported. There were also Israeli attacks in Roumine, Hermel, Baalchmy, Tefahta and Nabatiyeh with 23 deaths in total, according to Al Jazeera.
Meanwhile, American warships yesterday shot down eight drones, five anti-ship ballistic missiles and three cruise missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthis while transiting the Bab Mandab Strait, according to the Pentagon, without causing damage.
Vedant Patel, spokesperson for the State Department, maintained that Washington will maintain the shipment of weapons to Tel Aviv due to its progress in the issue of humanitarian aid for the enclave.
On the other hand, the spokesperson rejected the statements of the Israeli Finance Minister, the ultranationalist Bezalel Smotrich, that the return of Donald Trump to the White House could open the door to the recognition of Israeli sovereignty of the West Bank.
This minister’s comments are certainly not conducive to building lasting peace, and are incredibly inconsistent with the principles Secretary Blinken laid out in TokyoPatel said.
Hamas stated that Smotrich’s statements confirm the colonizing intentions of the occupation and stressed that the Israeli authorities They are based on terrorism and the usurpation of rights and territories.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, addressed the Iranian population yesterday in a video in Arabic, in which he assured that he does not want a war against the regime of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and urged the Iranians to imagine a future without him.
The new Israeli Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, published in X that there will be no ceasefire or pause in Lebanon until the war objectives in that territory are met, which include the disarmament of Hezbollah and ensuring that northern residents return home safely.
The blue helmets (United Nations peacekeepers) warned that the Israeli army commits serious violations to the ceasefire agreement with Syria, with the construction of a military fortification along the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Syrian Golan Heights occupied by Tel Aviv.