Israel’s latest day of war in the enclave leaves 68 dead // Tel Aviv’s campaign in the reoccupied West Bank causes 16 deaths
▲ In the morgue of the hospital in Deir al Balah, Palestinian Osama al Taweel denounces the Israeli incursion into Gaza while holding the bodies of his grandchildren who were victims of a recent airstrike.Photo Ap
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Friday, August 30, 2024, p. 27
New York, Israel and Hamas agreed to a humanitarian pause three days of fighting in different parts of Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for some 640,000 children, which will begin on Sunday, September 1, a senior official from the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
Rik Peeperkorn, WHO’s head of the Palestinian territories, explained that according to the agreement, the vaccinations will be carried out between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. local time and will last nine days in total, with three days for each zone: center, south and north of the Palestinian enclave.
He also explained that there is an agreement to extend the inoculation process in each area to a fourth day if necessary, while assuring that 1.26 million doses are already in Palestinian territory, while 400 thousand will be sent soon.
All parties will have to adhere to the planhe stressed and added that after the first round was over, a period of four weeks A second phase will begin to vaccinate the Gazan population.
We are ready to cooperate with international organizations to ensure this campaign, which cares for and protects more than 640 thousand Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.Hamas official Basem Naim told the Reuters news agency.
For its part, a spokesman for the Israeli army’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat) indicated the day before yesterday that the vaccination campaign would be carried out in conjunction with Tel Aviv forces as part of the actions which will allow the population to reach the medical centers where the biologicals will be administered.
Incessant offensives raise the death toll to 40,600
Meanwhile, the latest round of Israeli attacks ended with 68 dead in Gaza, the enclave’s Ministry of Health reported, bringing the death toll to 40,600 dead and 94,000 wounded.
The Israeli military said it had launched an offensive against gunmen who seized control of a humanitarian aid convoy in southern Rafah, saying the aid workers were safe and sound.
A coordinated entry took place of a convoy of vehicles from the US NGO American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) when several individuals took control of a vehicle at the front of the caravan.
According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), The other vehicles were not damaged and this one reached its destination. The armed attack eliminated the threat of seizing the humanitarian convoy. After the incident, representatives of the organization confirmed that all members and humanitarian aid in the convoy were safe and sound..
Meanwhile, Tel Aviv’s military campaign that continued in the reoccupied West Bank left at least 16 dead and 20 wounded following Israeli operations on Thursday.
Israel says it killed five Palestinian militants, including an Islamic Jihad commander, during a second day of raids in the occupied West Bank.
Hamas-allied Islamic Jihad confirmed that Mohammed Jaber, known as Abu Shujaa, was killed during a raid in the town of Tulkarm; Israel said Shujaa was responsible for numerous offensives against Israelis, including a deadly shooting last June.
Second day of terror in Jenin, Nablus and Tubas
The anti-terrorist operation The Israeli strike, which began the day before yesterday, is carrying out bombings and raids by armoured convoys in the cities of Jenin, Nablus and Tubas, as well as two refugee camps, where armed groups fighting against the Israeli occupation are very active, the AFP news agency reported.
Tel Aviv military forces reported that they eliminated two fighters in Jenin and five who entrenched themselves in a mosque in the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem.
According to Tulkarem Governor Mostafa Taqatqa, the fighters were killed for the rocket fire at a houseand not in any combat.
The Jenin refugee camp, as well as much of the city of the same name, experienced power and internet outages after the IDF attacked the only power supply line.
The United States has called for the protection of civilians in the West Bank and rejected the idea of further mass displacement in Palestinian territories, while the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, ordered the start of the technical process to prepare sanctions against Israeli ministers for their extremist actions and statements.
A spokesman for the US State Department spoke to the Europa Press news agency on condition of anonymity about recent statements by Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz about a temporary evacuation in the West Bank in the same way that in the Gaza Strip.
He also said that Washington recognized that localized evacuation orders may be necessary in certain cases to protect civilian lives during sensitive counterterrorism operations.
Meanwhile, Borrell presented a proposal to the technical groups to launch the process of preparing restrictions against Israeli ministers, as part of the sanctions regime for human rights violations.
After he argued that the EU should not have taboos and has to use its sanctions to punish Israeli ministers who incite hatred against Palestinians, in reference to Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, the head of European diplomacy insisted on advancing technical work and studying the cases of both.
The UK government has banned Nazem Ahmad, a suspected Hezbollah financier, and Mustafa Ayash from entering its territory for allegedly promote terrorism Hamas through a media network. Authorities said that with these actions they seek Protecting the integrity of the economy national in the face of the threat posed by financing terrorism.
The text also states that the aim is to target those who are suspected of involvement in such activities but are not British citizens.