About to complete the first week since the start of “tactical pauses” of Israel in southern Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) lamented that it has barely had an impact. The military announced that it would stop bombing for eleven … hours a day the corridor that connects Kerem Shalon with Jan Younis, but “we can say that we have not seen any impact on the humanitarian supplies that reach the population since the announcement,” he said. Richard PeeperkornWHO representative in the occupied territories.
The Army publishes images of trucks crossing into Gaza every day and accuses United Nations agencies of not doing their job. “On the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing there are hundreds of pallets of aid awaiting collection and distribution by aid agencies,” said the major. Ghassan Allian it’s a statement. Israeli television Channel 12 revealed that on Tuesday there was a tense meeting between Foreign Minister Israel Katz and the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and Reconstruction, Sigrid Kaag. The head of the international organization confessed to Katz that chaos and crime are spreading in Gaza and that, if the situation does not change, soon the UN will not be able to continue operating in the Strip and Israel will have to take charge of humanitarian management.
Every time the Gaza Police have tried to protect a convoy, Israel has attacked the law enforcement officers because it considers them part of the Hamas security apparatus. Something similar happens with the rest of the workers in public institutions and in the last few hours an Israeli attack killed five workers from the Gaza city hall who were trying to repair a water well.
Netanyahu and the future of Gaza
Benjamin Netanyahu does not want either Hamas or the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) in Gaza the day after the end of the war. The prime minister gave an interview to the Punchbowl portal in which he spoke very highly of the future he plans for the Strip and stated that “I think we are going to have to carry out a sustained demilitarization“, which only Israel can do to prevent any terrorist attempt to re-emerge.” The prime minister pointed out that “there has to be an administration that is in charge of the distribution of humanitarian aid and civil administration and that has to be done with cooperation with the assistance of Arab countries,” he said without going into detail about the names of the countries you have in mind.
The lack of a clear alternative plan to Hamas has become one of the most intense internal debates between the army and Netanyahu and the military’s spokesman, Daniel Hagari, He even confessed this week that the idea of ”destroying Hamas, making Hamas disappear, is simply misleading the public.” The pressure does not change the strategy of the prime minister, who resists offering details and maintains his commitment to maximum pressure on the Islamists on a day-to-day basis with a total blockade by land, sea and air.
With a month left before his speech before the United States Congress, the Likud leader also tried to reduce tension with Joe Biden following his controversial video in which he criticized the suspension of a shipment of a type of ammunition by Washington. “I felt that bringing the problem to light was absolutely necessary” because “it is necessary to quickly win the war in Gaza and avoid a war in Lebanon,” declared the conservative leader. Netanyahu’s opinion is that the announcement of a suspension of ammunition shipments is a message that the enemy can interpret as a sign of weakness. The situation on the northern border is complicated by the day and both Israel and Hezbollah have declared their willingness to launch an all-out war.
