This Wednesday, the Arab League called on the UN and the international community to exert the “necessary pressure” to force Israel to stop its “aggression and persecution” of Gaza, where 22 Palestinians have already died as a result of Israeli bombardments.
The call for an end to the bombing joins a call made on Tuesday by the European Union (EU) and the United States, as well as the League of Arab States, which urgently gathered in Cairo to condemn Israel’s “continued and intensifying attack on the Palestinian people.”
The appeal came as a new Israeli air attack on the Gaza Strip this Wednesday killed seven more people, two of them children, and injured more than two dozen civilians.
The new attack comes after Palestinian militias in Gaza fired more than 270 rockets at Israel this Wednesday, an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman told Spanish news agency EFE.
The attack is the largest of the year and follows more than 24 hours of tension in the area after Israel shot down three senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (JIP) leaders in Gaza on Tuesday, continued bombings and have so far killed 22 people, including at least 13 civilians, many of them children, and more than 40 wounded.
Today in Cairo, the League of Arab States asked the UN Security Council to assume responsibility for maintaining international peace and security in the region, demanding that the organization, led by former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres, “also keep Israel, the occupying power, the consequences of aggression “,
Arab leaders also called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate “war crimes and crimes against humanity” that Israel “committed and continues to commit against the defenseless Palestinian people.”
On Tuesday evening, the EU and US, while calling for an end to the escalation of violence, expressed “grave concern” over the Gaza bombings and asked the parties involved to show “maximum moderation.”
Yesterday, the Israeli army killed Jalil Bakhitini, Tarek Az Aldin and Jahed Ahnam, the top three leaders of the IDP in Gaza, a group that Israel, the US and the European Union (EU) consider terrorist, in bombings.
On Tuesday, in response to the Israeli bombing, the Chamber of Joint Military Operations, which brings together Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, including the JIP and the Islamist movement Hamas, warned that Israel “will pay the price for aggression,” hinting at a possible armed response.
“The attacks of the united resistance are part of the process of responding to the massacres committed by the Zionist occupiers and part of the defense of our Palestinian people. The resistance reaction is mandatory and permanent against any aggression,” a Hamas Gaza spokesman said today. Abd al-Latif al-Kanu on a joint response that could lead to further escalation of the war.
The “border posts” Erez and Kerem Shalom, which allow the passage of people and goods between Israel and the Gaza Strip, remain closed, making it impossible to evacuate civilians in Gaza, home to about 2.5 million Palestinians.
In August 2022, Israel launched a “preventive operation” against the Islamic “jihad” in Gaza, a three-day escalation that resulted in the death of about fifty residents of the city.
However, the most aggressive Israeli operation in recent years, recalls EFE, took place in May 2021, which involved all the enclave militias, including Hamas, and which lasted eleven days, resulting in the deaths of more than 200 Palestinians and twenty Israelis.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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