According to the Israeli government, they will battle until they succeed and won’t agree to a ceasefire until all captives are freed.
After dividing Gaza into its two halves, North Gaza and South Gaza, Israel declared on Sunday that it was pounding Gaza with heavy weaponry.
We’ve surrounded Gaza City. There are now two Gazas: the north and the south, according to army spokesman Daniel Hagari.
This occurs while US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is traveling through Israel, Palestine, Iraq, and Cyprus in the Middle East with the goal of providing relief to Palestinian citizens and averting attacks on US troops by organizations supported by Iran in retaliation for Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
The Palestinian president, Mahmud Abbas, whom Blinken later met, referred to the strikes on Gaza as a genocide. According to the health ministry in the territory controlled by Hamas, at least 9,770 people, primarily civilians, had died in the conflict, which had lasted more than four weeks.
According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, Abbas condemned “the genocide and destruction suffered by our Palestinian people in Gaza at the hands of Israel’s war machine, with no regard for the principles of international law.”
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The attacks on October 7, which were the worst to ever target Israel, resulted in 1,400 deaths—mostly civilians—and 240 hostages being carried to Gaza. In retaliation, Gaza was attacked. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that “there won’t be a ceasefire until the hostages are returned,” despite mounting international pressure for him to halt the attacks on Gaza and commit to an immediate ceasefire.
“Let them take this out of their vocabulary. After visiting with troops at an air force facility, the seasoned right-wing premier stated, “We are saying this to our enemies and to our friends.” “We’ll just keep going till we succeed. We don’t have a choice,” he remarked.
Although Israel has been sending text messages and distributing flyers to Palestinian citizens in northern Gaza, telling them to go south, at least 350,000 civilians are still living in what is effectively an urban combat zone, according to a US official on Saturday.
Washington hasn’t taken a very strong stand on Israel-Palestine. Having previously backed Israel’s military campaign against Hamas and Palestine, they are now demanding a rapid end to hostilities and asserting in a Senate committee that Abbas’s Palestinian Authority (PA) need to recapture control of Gaza following the conflict. Washington has been saying a wide range of things to a wide range of audiences.
