A new attack on a UNRWA school leaves three dead. Those killed in eight months of the offensive now exceed 36,700, including more than 15,500 children. Today the UN has included Israel on the ‘blacklist’ of countries and entities accused of harming children in conflict zones.
He Israeli army already occupies the entire ‘Philadelphia corridor’, as it calls the 14 kilometers of border separating the Gaza Strip from Egyptafter his troops have reached the Mediterranean coast along that line.
The Israeli Army announced last week that it now had “operational control” of the entire dividing line, except for a small section near the coast, although it controlled the area with surveillance and firepower.
The agencies confirm, mentioning residents, that Israeli tanks have arrived in the Al Izba area, in the extreme southwest of Rafah, facing the Mediterranean, as also reflected in a viral photo circulating in Palestinian media and networks.
For Israel, controlling that border – where they claim to have found at least 20 tunnels – is very important because it is, according to it, the main source of arms smuggling that for years has served for the entry of Hamas weapons.
New attacks
Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least two Palestinians have been killed today in shelling in the west of the city, around the Saudi neighborhood, where Israel has not issued any evacuation order.
In addition, three more people have been killed and seven others have been injured in another Israeli attack on a UNRWA school in Shati camp, near Gaza City. With this, there are already 150 UNRWA schools (used as shelters for displaced people) attacked by Israel.
This attack occurs the day after the Israeli aviation launched three missiles against a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat camp, in the center of the Strip, killing around 40 people, including 14 minors.
Israel, on a UN blacklist
Precisely, United Nations has decided this Friday to include the Army of Israel in a ‘blacklist’ of countries and entities accused of harming children in conflict zone.
This has been confirmed by the Israeli representative to the UN, Gilad Erdan, who declares himself “absolutely shocked and disgusted” by the “immoral” decision adopted by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that “the UN has put itself on the blacklist of history today by joining the supporters of the Hamas murderers. The Israel Defense Forces are the most moral army in the world and no crazy UN decision will change that.”
Since Monday, more than 250 Palestinians have been killed and 750 have been injured, most of them in the harsh attacks in the central area. And in eight months of the offensive, which ends today, the Gazan deaths have risen to 36,731 – including more than 15,500 children – and 83,530 have been injured, according to the Gazan Ministry of Health.
Gantz’s possible resignation
He still Israel War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantzhas called the media tomorrow at 8:40 p.m. local time (7:40 p.m. in Euskal Herria) to announce that he is withdrawing from the emergency government created after the war and from the war cabinet.
The official announcement from his National Unity party (center-right) does not clarify the reason for the appearance, but the Israeli press and political analysts assume that the politician is going to withdraw his support for the emergency executive created by Netanyahu shortly after the attacks. of Hamas on October 7 for the management of the war.
Gantz, who before October 7 was on the opposition side, was the only leader to agree to Netanyahu’s request to form a wartime national unity government and won a position within the smaller war cabinet, where he is one of the three members with voting rights, along with the Prime Minister himself and the head of Defense, Yoav Gallant.
Gantz, who in the past was chief of the General Staff and Minister of Defense, issued an ultimatum to Netanyahu in mid-May: he would leave the cabinet if he did not announce a post-war plan for the Gaza Strip before June 8, something that was not has occurred.
The departure of Gantz’s party from the emergency government does not yet endanger the survival of Netanyahu’s coalition, the most right-wing in the history of Israel, which maintains 64 seats in Parliament, as before the war.
However, the government coalition faces other dangers: the far-right parties – Jewish Power and Religious Zionism – have threatened to abandon it if the truce agreement with Hamas is signed, since they consider it a concession to agree to the end of hostilities; while the ultra-Orthodox formations -Shas and United Torah Judaism- do annul the military exemption that for decades has allowed young Haredis who dedicate themselves to studying the Torah to avoid compulsory military service.
In both cases, the 14 seats that the nationalist extreme right has; like the 18 of the ultra-Orthodox, they are vital for the survival of Netanyahu’s government.
Source: Eitb

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