▲ Gazans crowd outside a bakery in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.Xinhua Photo
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La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, p. 23
Geneva. A convoy of around 100 trucks carrying humanitarian aid was attacked in the Gaza Strip, reported yesterday the head of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini.
The head of the organization denounced that now UNRWA has no possibility of accompanying its convoys in the south of the enclave.
Lazzarini added that the organization’s center, located in Khan Yunis, was attacked by hundreds of people looking for food. However, the facility does not store food.
Meanwhile, several Israeli military attacks throughout the Gaza Strip yesterday caused the death of almost twenty Palestinians; Of them, six died in tents that housed displaced families, medical sources indicated.
Four people, including two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a camp in the coastal area of Al Mawasi, a humanitarian zone, and two others were killed in temporary shelters in the southern city of Rafah and another in drone fire, according to health sources.
In Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, doctors reported that an Israeli missile hit a house and killed at least two people.
The Israeli army, which launched war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas on October 7, 2023, claimed that it carried out attacks against terrorist targets in Beit Lahiya.
Offensives were also reported in Gaza City and the Nuseirat refugee camp, where four deaths were reported.
In southern Lebanon, at least six paramedics were killed in an Israeli airstrike against a relief house in the town of Baraachit, 7 kilometers from the Israeli border, the NNA news agency reported.
Other missile attacks from Lebanon launched by Hezbollah hit Tel Aviv and northern Israel, leaving at least one dead and several injured.
The interim prime minister of Lebanon, Nayib Mikati, stated that he responded positive to the ceasefire proposal presented by the United States, although he stressed that there are still points to be discussed during the visit of Washington’s envoy, Amos Hochstein, who postponed the trip to Beirut scheduled for this Tuesday.
In turn, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that the bombing launched in October in Iran damaged part of its nuclear program. It is not a secret, it was reported that a component was damaged in an attack, but its ability to operate has not been disrupteddeclared the ruler before Parliament.
The American news website Axios reported on Friday, citing US and Israeli officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, that an Israeli attack on Iran on October 26 destroyed a major secret nuclear weapons research center in Parchin, about 30 kilometers southeast of Tehran.
Meanwhile, dozens of people protested yesterday in front of Netanyahu’s house to demand an agreement to release the hostages.