Hamas denounces Tel Aviv’s deliberate bombing of schools and shelters in Gaza
▲ Relatives care for an injured child at a hospital in Deir al-Balah.Afp Photo
▲ Displaced Palestinians on the Mediterranean coast of that city.Photo Ap
Europa Press and AFP
The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, August 24, 2024, p. 23
Gaza Strip., At least 15 people were injured in an Israeli bombing yesterday in Khan Yunis, and three more in a school that was serving as a shelter in the Nuserait camp. Meanwhile, a third attack on another school in Gaza was justified by Tel Aviv on the grounds that, like the previous ones, it was used by Hamas as a centre of operations.
The offensive, the Israeli army reported on its social media account X, was against the Jafer Ali bin Abu Taleb school in the Zeitun district and at the moment there is no information about fatalities or injuries in the latter.
Hamas authorities have denounced the Israeli attacks on buildings and the displaced people taking refuge there as deliberate.
According to Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on keeping troops on the Gaza-Egypt border reflects his refusal to reach an agreement, since the Philadelphia corridor has become the main obstacle in the negotiations.
Israel took operational control of the crossing into Gaza in May, in the context of the war unleashed on October 7 by the incursion of Islamist commandos in the south of the country. Netanyahu wants his troops to remain there permanently, AFP reported.
This patrol route, built by the Israeli army during its second occupation of the Palestinian enclave (1967-2005), runs 14 kilometers along the border and is 100 meters wide at its narrowest point, much of it is closed by a wall and, according to AFP, Egyptians, Gazans and Israelis They know that there are numerous tunnels underneath that smugglers use..
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Meanwhile, the United States stated that progress was made in the latest round of negotiations for a truce between the two sides. Now we need you to come together and work on its implementation.John Kirby said.
The conversations that began the day before yesterday They had a constructive characterthe official said, adding that reports that diplomacy was on the verge of collapse were inaccurate.
Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Policy, criticized the lack of political will of the United States and the European community to stop Israel’s military campaign that in the 10 months of offensive caused the death of at least 40,265 Palestinians.
It’s not that we don’t have the ability to influence Israel. Of course we do.said the head of European diplomacy in the context of the course he is leading at the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander, Spain.
According to Borrell, Everyone reacts to the effective pressures they receive and, in this line, regretted the lukewarmness from the United States and the European Union, which, until now, have only denounced that There are too many dead.