Beirut accepts Washington’s proposal for a ceasefire // Hezbollah spokesperson, killed in offensive
▲ Displaced Palestinians from Beit Lahia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, captured on the main Salah Din road.Photo Afp
Xinhua, Reuters, Ap, Afp and Europa Press
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, November 18, 2024, p. 22
Loop. The Israeli bombings against the north and center of the Gaza Strip in the last hours caused the death of at least 111 Palestinians, the press office of the Gazan government reported yesterday, while in the south of Beirut, Israel launched more than 145 attacks in the last 24 hours, with two Lebanese soldiers and the press chief and spokesman for Hezbollah, Mohammed Afif, killed, on a day in which the Lebanese government informed Washington that it accepts the US proposal for a ceasefire, according to sources from public television LBCI; It remains to be seen whether Hezbollah and Tel Aviv will also accept it.
The Israeli army bombed several residential buildings in Beit Lahia on Saturday morning, leaving 72 dead. Other bombings against the Nuseirat, Al Shati and Bureij camps caused dozens of deaths, the press office detailed, adding that the attacks also left 60 injured and 15 missing.
The buildings housed dozens of displaced civilians, mostly children and women, according to authorities. Video footage from the site of the attack obtained by the Reuters news agency showed locals removing bodies from a huge pile of rubble.
A statement from the Israeli military forces yesterday highlighted that it carried out several offensives on terrorist targets in Beit Lahiya, adding that efforts continue to evacuate the civilian population from the active war zone.
Mohammed Afif, Hezbollah’s head of media relations, was killed in his office in a israeli attack that he had target the party office Arab socialist Baath, located in central Beirut, according to an official with the Shiite military organization who was not authorized to brief reporters and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Tel Aviv police arrested three suspects for throwing flares at the private residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the city of Caesarea, while Israeli ultra-Orthodox or haredi religious leaders called for the rejection of forced recruitment in the armed forces, after the government approved enlisting 7 thousand recruits since yesterday.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Foreign Ministry described tendentious and anti-Israeli the report of a United Nations (UN) committee according to which Israel’s methods of war in the Palestinian enclave correspond to the characteristics of a genocide.
The document, written by a special United Nations committee charged since 1968 with investigating Israeli practices in the occupied Palestinian territories, will be presented today to the General Assembly in New York.
With its siege of Gaza, the obstruction of humanitarian aid, the targeted attacks, the murders of civilians and humanitarian workers, and ignoring the calls of the UN and the orders of the International Court of JusticeTel Aviv intentionally causes death, hunger and serious injuries to the Gazan population, the report maintains.
Likewise, the Houthis claimed responsibility for an attack on a vital target of the Israeli enemy in Umm Ra-shrash, southern Palestine with several dronesexplained the military spokesman for the Houthis, Yahya Sari.
Israel’s war in Gaza has left at least 43,850 Palestinians dead since October 7, 2023, while in Lebanon, at least 3,481 people have died, Al Jazeera reported.