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La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, December 2, 2024, p. 25
Tel Aviv., Israel killed 47 people, including two children, in Al Mawasi, southern Gaza Strip, and injured 108 Palestinians in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health reported, while the commissioner general of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East (Unrwa), Philippe Lazzarini, confirmed the suspension of the delivery of humanitarian aid through the Kerem Shalom crossing, in the south of the Palestinian enclave, due to insecurity, reported Al Jazeera.
Thus, the total number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli offensive since October 7, 2023 increased to 44,429, with 105,250 injured, according to Gazan health personnel.
UN suspends aid delivery
In his X account, Lazzarini regretted that humanitarian delivery in the coastal enclave is interrupted at a time when hunger is rapidly deepening. Providing humanitarian aid must never be dangerous or become a test.
He also blamed Tel Aviv for this collapse, citing political decisions to restrict aid amountsthe lack of security on the routes and Israel’s attack on the Gazan police, who previously provided public security.
Kerem Shalom is the only crossing between Israel and Gaza that has been designed for cargo shipments, including as the main artery for aid, since the Rafah crossing with Egypt was closed in May.
On Israel’s northern front, planes launched an attack on a southern Lebanese border village despite a ceasefire, while troops bombed other border towns and villages still under Israeli control, a Lebanese state news agency reported.
Neither the Israeli army nor Hezbollah commented on the attack in the village of Yaroun.
The leader of the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, affirmed that the organization is ready for war if the Israeli enemy imposes itand maintained that the group’s intervention in the conflict in the Middle East is a national, Arab, Islamic and human responsibility.
In Israel, the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, assured that he saw in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu some openness about the idea of forcing the migration of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip; Likewise, he emphasized that The only times we defeated our enemies was when we took territory from them..
The head of the Israeli police, Danny Levi, yesterday launched an unusual and very harsh message against the ultranationalist Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, for his intention to freeze part of the budget of the security forces, at a time when schools in the north reopened while The ceasefire with Hezbollah is maintained.
