US senator goes to Tel Aviv to carry out Donald Trump’s order to reach a cessation of hostilities in Palestine before January
â–²Due to a stampede of people looking for food in front of a bakery in Deir al Balah, a 13-year-old girl (image) and a woman lost their lives.AP Photo
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La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 30, 2024, p. 17
Beirut. The leader of the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, stated yesterday in a televised speech that they have achieved a divine victory against Israel, even greater than that declared after the last confrontation between the two in 2006, due to the ferocity of the fighting, the number of sacrifices of the movement’s militants and the American support given to Tel Aviv.
He added that the victory is a sign that Israeli forces had to accept the pact to save their troops, and he promised cooperation with the Lebanese army to rebuild the country.
The truce, which ended more than a year of violence during which Israel’s repeated offensives killed nearly 3,800 people in Lebanon and displaced around 1.2 million, was tested yesterday with an Israeli bombing of a suspected Hezbollah faction, as tens of thousands of Lebanese returned to their homes, many of them reduced to rubble by enemy fire.
Faced with such destruction, one of the citizens expressed: Lebanon and its people have no future; we jump from one catastrophe to anotherhe said sadly, as he opened cans of cat food next to a tangle of concrete that, until last Monday night, was a seven-story building that housed several families. Meanwhile, Israelis who live on the border distrust the cessation of hostilities and prefer not to return to their homes.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, demanded that the agreement reached, of which he was one of the architects along with his American counterpart, Joe Biden, be adhered to immediately. The head of European diplomacy until yesterday, Josep Borrell, described the pact as fragile and regretted ending his period in office without having been able stop the killing.
In Gaza, authorities reported that at least 75 people were killed in Beit Lahiya, north of the enclave, where among bodies in the streets and rescue teams under continuous attacks, a child and two women were trampled to death yesterday in a stampede in a bakery in Gaza. the city of Deir al Balah, the hospital reported.
The Strip’s Ministry of Health reported a new toll of 44,363 deaths since the start of hostilities more than a year ago.
In addition, large groups of women and children search for food among piles of garbage, reported Ajith Sunghay, head of the Human Rights Office of the United Nations Organization for the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The official highlighted his concern about the alarming prevalence of hunger and horrible daily struggle which involves acquiring basic necessities in the enclave.
The World Health Organization warned that 90 percent of Gazans survive in tents and are constantly exposed to respiratory and other diseases; food insecurity and malnutrition, as winter approaches.
In this context, Israel is studying replacing the army in northern Gaza with American private security companies to accompany food and medicine convoys for Palestinians who remain in the devastated region, according to a report published by an Israeli newspaper Globes.
Meanwhile in the reoccupied West Bank, Hamas claimed responsibility for a shooting attack on a bus of Israeli settlers that left nine wounded; While a delegation from the Islamic resistance movement arrived in Cairo yesterday for talks with Egyptian officials, a senior leader of the group, Basem Naim, told Reuters, after Washington said it would begin new efforts with Qatar, Egypt and Turkey to revive the talks for the release of the hostages in Gaza and reaching a ceasefire agreement.
Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham, who was in Israel this week and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu, told the news site Axios that US President-elect Donald Trump wants to see a ceasefire in Gaza before re-entering the White House in January.