The number of journalists eliminated by Israel rises to 182 // Palestinian official denounces that Tel Aviv uses white phosphorus in attacks
▲ Boos to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday at a commemorative ceremony for October 7 at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.Photo Ap
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Monday, October 28, 2024, p. 26
Cairo., Egypt yesterday proposed an initial two-day ceasefire in Gaza to exchange four Israeli hostages from Hamas for some Palestinian prisoners, on a day in which Israeli strikes killed 53 people in the Gaza Strip and more than two dozen in Lebanon.
Egypt has made intense efforts over the past two days to launch a ceasefire initiativeexplained the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al Sisi, who gave a period of 10 days to complete the procedures facing a complete cessation of hostilities to allow unrestricted aid entry into the Palestinian enclave.
There was no immediate comment from Israel or Hamas, but a Palestinian official close to the mediation efforts told Reuters: I hope Hamas listens to the new offers, but remains determined that any deal must end the war and remove Israeli forces from Gaza..
Dozens under rubble
Israeli forces killed at least 53 people across Gaza yesterday, including 46 in the north, where the army has intensified its siege with bombings and mass arrests, Al Jazeera reported. He added that dozens were left under the rubble of the attacked sites.
The Israeli army claimed to have eliminated more than 40 terrorists in the Jabaliya area in the last 24 hours, as well as the dismantling of infrastructure and the location of large quantities of military material.
Among the dead were three Palestinian journalists, bringing the total to 182 communications professionals eliminated in the enclave in just over a year of war.
For his part, Mahomoud Al Habbash, advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, asserted that the use of white phosphorus by Israel in the Gaza Strip is documented and the corresponding evidence was presented to the International Criminal Court.
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, expressed that he was shocked for the terrible levels of death, injury and destruction following attacks by Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip.
More than 90 percent of Gaza’s population faces acute food insecurityreported Mahmoud al-Saqqa, head of food security and livelihoods for Oxfam (Oxford Hunger Relief Committee) in the Palestinian enclave, who warned of this figure with the news outlet Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah.
Meanwhile, the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom asked Israel not to suspend operations with Palestinian banks, while the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, defended the two-state solution.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 42,924 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have died since the start of the war between Hamas and Israel, on October 7, 2023.
Immediate evacuation
On the Lebanese war front, the Israeli army ordered residents of 14 southern villages to immediately evacuate and move north of the Awali River, while an attack on the coastal city of Sidon left at least eight dead and 25 wounded, reported the Ministry of Health.
In the offensive, four soldiers who died were identified as commander Sayad Mansuri, Astavar Mehdi Naqvi, commander Hamza Yahandidé and Mohammad Mahdi Shahroji, who They received martyrdom facing the projectiles of the criminal Zionist regimeaccording to an Iranian military statement.
In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was booed yesterday at an October 7 memorial ceremony by relatives of Hamas victims in Israel, while one person was killed and at least 40 injured, six seriously, when a truck crashed into a bus stop near the Gillot military base.
Meanwhile, Tel Aviv police authorities reported that in the bus accident, civilians at the scene opened fire on the driver and killed him. neutralized.
