Afp, Ap, Sputnik and Europa Press
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, November 14, 2024, p. 22
Beirut. Israel’s attacks and bombings against Gaza and Lebanon continued, while Tel Aviv prepares to remain in the strip until the end of 2025 and builds the infrastructure for the military’s prolonged stay on the ground, the newspaper reported. Haaretz.
In Lebanon, at least 78 deaths were reported in Israeli offensives. Early yesterday morning it launched a bombing raid on Aaramoun, 15 kilometers south of Beirut.
Amos Hochstein, White House envoy to Lebanon, stated that He hopes that a truce can be reached soon.. His comments point to a last-ditch attempt by the outgoing administration of US President Joe Biden to achieve a ceasefire in the region, while diplomacy to end the war in Gaza appears to be adrift.
The United States and other powers say the ceasefire must be based on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the war between the two sides in 2006. The resolution requires that areas of southern Lebanon , close to the Israeli border, are free of any weapons that do not belong to the Lebanese State.
At least 33 people were killed yesterday in Israeli attacks across Gaza, five of them in the Maghazi camp in the center of the strip, and two in an attack on a tent camp west of Nuseirat.
Meanwhile, the newspaper Haaretz published that Israel is preparing to remain in the strip until the end of 2025 and is already building the first phase of the infrastructure for the prolonged military stay. This is suggested by the systematic destruction of buildings and infrastructure in Gaza, coupled with the construction and widening of roads.
Tel Aviv’s new Defense Minister, Israel Katz, reiterated that his troops they won’t take their foot off the accelerator and will continue to hit Hezbollah hard, which in turn claimed to have attacked the headquarters of Israel’s forces in HaKiryia, according to the Palestinian newspaper Filastin.
In the north of the enclave the Palestinians are practically no food since Israel began the siege on this territory on October 1, the United Nations warned. In the south, hundreds of trucks loaded with aid were parked on the Gazan side of the border, the UN said, but it could not be distributed due to the threat of anarchy, theft and Israeli military restrictions, it reported. The Independent.
Türkiye breaks relations
The high representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, will put on the table a proposal to suspend political dialogue with Israel, in response to human rights violations in its offensive in the Gaza Strip, Europa Press reported, al time that Turkey broke relations with Tel Aviv.
Thousands of protesters called by French associations, unions and left-wing parties protested yesterday in Paris against the celebration of the Israel is Forever support gala with the video participation of the Israeli Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich.
In Amsterdam last night the police arrested dozens of participants in an illegal demonstration in favor of the Palestinian cause.