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La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, December 5, 2024, p. 25
Deir Balah. At least 35 people died yesterday during Israeli bombings against displaced persons camps in Gaza, while Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian villages in the reoccupied West Bank, burning houses and clashing with Israeli troops; No fatalities have been reported on the Palestinian side.
In this context, the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, denounced that the United States acts aggressively in the Middle East, which has a negative impact on the region’s economy.
Gazan authorities reported three massacres, which included bombings against refugee camps in Khan Younis, in the south, and Gaza City, in the north.
Meanwhile, Hamas threatened to neutralize hostages if Israel attempts a rescue operation similar to the one in June, according to an internal communication seen yesterday by Reuters, in which it warned that Tel Aviv is responsible for the fate of the captives.
Possible hostage deal
The Israeli Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, declared that The intensity over this monstrous organization called Hamas is increasing and there is a chance that this time we can actually push for a hostage deal.; in what happens, the offensive on the strip will continue.
The Israeli military said Jewish settlers attacked the town of Beit Furik in the reoccupied West Bank after troops arrived in the area to dismantle an unauthorized agricultural facility they built near land privately owned by Palestinians. He stressed that the settlers threw stones, injuring two members of the paramilitary border police.
The settlers also attacked the town of Huwara, which has been the target of several previous attacks even before the start of the war in Gaza, and clashed with troops near Rujeib, another Palestinian town, the army said.
In another event, yesterday forces from Tel Aviv detained a patient in a hospital in Nablus, in an incursion that the Palestinian authorities described as an flagrant violation of all international laws and conventions that stipulate the protection of health centers and patients. Israel alleged that the detainee is a member of a terrorist cell implicated in a deadly attack in August, and that the day before was the target of a bombing in the West Bank.
Also yesterday, Israeli forces shot and killed a 17-year-old Palestinian suspicious of throwing stones at several vehicles in the Silwan neighborhood yesterday in East Jerusalem, the WAFA agency reported.
In the West Bank, 787 Palestinians have been killed since October 7 last year, when the war began, and 44,532 in Gaza.
In Lebanon the death toll exceeds 3,400, the majority since the offensive that Israel unleashed in September.
The head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, affirmed yesterday that the ceasefire in Lebanon is maintained thanks to the established monitoring mechanism when concerns arose about an alleged violation.
On the other hand, Putin affirmed that Washington’s presence in the Persian Gulf – where it leads a coalition that fights the Houthis of Yemen, for their attacks on ships related to Israel – provokes a response from the resistance forces in the region, the economy is damaged, logistics routes are damaged and many transporters have already begun to avoid passage through Africa.