Wednesday, Israeli troops pulled “warning photos” towards a group of 25 diplomats visiting Jenin in the West Bank occupied by Israel on Wednesday, which caused a wave of indignation and calls for a survey of world leaders and ministers.
Images show a number of diplomats giving interviews with the media when quick blows have come nearby, forcing them to bed. The delegation included ambassadors and diplomats representing 31 countries, notably Italy, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, the United Kingdom, China and Russia.
The group was on an official mission organized by the Palestinian authority to observe the humanitarian situation there. The Israeli army said that the visit had been approved, but the delegation “has spread from the approved road” and that Israeli soldiers have pulled warning fire to keep them away from the region.
Canadian, British, French and other Europeans have summoned Israeli ambassadors in their respective capitals to explain the “unacceptable” incident, which will already feed international anger and international concern while Israel continues its offensive in Gaza and increases the expansion of the colonies in West West West.
Germany, a longtime ally of Israel, condemned what he called an “uninsured shot”, while Canada, Turkey and the EU demanded an investigation.
“We expect an immediate explanation for what happened. It is completely unacceptable,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said at a press conference. Four Canadian diplomats were part of the group.
A spokesman for the UN Secretary General António Guterres also urged Israel to conduct an “in-depth investigation”.
“It is clear that diplomats who do their job should never be slaughtered, attacked in any way, a form or a form, and their security, their inviolability, must be respected at any time,” said the spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric.
Egypt said that the incident “violates all diplomatic standards”.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Israel of having “deliberately targeted” the diplomatic delegation with live fire.
The FDIs said they regretted “the downside caused” and that senior officials would contact diplomats to inform them of the results of his internal investigation into the incident.
Jenin was at the center of a large Israeli assault in January who forced tens of thousands of Palestinians from their houses, one of the greatest trips in the West Bank for years.
On Wednesday, a new wave of air strikes and artillery killed at least 82 people in Gaza, including several women and a child of the week, the Gaza Ministry of Health and hospital officials said.
In Khan Younis, where Israel recently ordered new evacuations before a major attack expected in the southern city, 24 people were killed, including 14 from the same family, Palestinian officials reported.
Late Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “the whole Gaza Strip will be under the control of the Israeli army” at the end of its intensified offense. In the midst of the growing international pressure on Israel to allow food to reach hungry Palestinians, he said: “We must avoid a humanitarian crisis in order to preserve our freedom of operational action.”
A hundred aid trucks have entered Gaza since Monday, when the Netanyahu government agreed to raise the 11 -week blockade which led to the territory faced with a “critical risk of famine”. Several dozen on Wednesday crossed the Kerem Shalom checkpoint, but their cargoes had not yet been distributed late Wednesday.
Abdel-Nasser Al-Ajramy, the chief of the Bakery Owners’ Society in Gaza, said that at least 25 bakeries which had been informed that they would receive flour from the global food program had not seen anything and that there had been no relief of the hunger of the people who expected food.
A large part of the population of 2.3 million Gaza rested for survival on free bakeries and community kitchens. Almost all have closed.
“There is no flour, no food, no water,” said Sabah Warsh Agha, a 67 -year -old woman from the city of northern Beit Lahiya. “We used to get water from the pump, now the pump stopped working. There is no diesel or gas. “
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The complex logistics, the continuation of the fighting, an Israeli requirement to recharge the cargoes on new trucks after entering Gaza, the limited availability of fuel and the poor condition of the roads all slow down the distribution of aid, declared humanitarian officials.
The Guardian understands that new delays have been caused when the Israeli army has asked the aid agencies to send convoys carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars of flour on the roads along the southern border of Gaza with Egypt and along the coast, which are both considered to be proud to plunder.
The new offensive in Gaza followed a two-month-old ceasefire and attracted a fierce conviction of countries which have already avoided expressing an open criticism of Israel. Even the United States, the country’s most important ally, has shown signs of loss of patience with Netanyahu.
Tuesday, Great Britain announced the suspension of talks with Israel for a free trade agreement and, with France and Canada, threatened with “concrete measures” if Israel continues its offensives and its restrictions on the free movement of aid.
In addition, the head of the EU foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, said that the block examined his agreement with Israel governing commercial ties on his conduct of the war in Gaza. The Pact specifies that all signatories must show “respect for human rights and democratic principles”.
EU exam could be completed relatively quickly because officials could rely on a 34 -page report compiled at the end of last year which details multiple allegations of systemic violations of international law during the conflict by Israel and Hamas.
The report, seen by the Guardian, includes United Nations statistics on victims’ figures and concluded that 44% of people killed in the first months of the Israeli offensive were children. It also lists Israeli strikes in hospitals and stresses that, under international humanitarian law, states have “the negative obligation” not to help or help violation of international humanitarian law by the parties to a conflict.
In Jerusalem, deputy Ayman Odeh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, was withdrawn from the Knesset podium by security after accused the government of killing 19,000 children in Gaza and warning war in civilians and innocent.
Earlier this week, Yair Golan, a left-wing opposition chief, attracted a furious response from the government and his supporters when he said that “a healthy country does not kill babies as a pastime” and that Israel risked becoming a “state of pariah among nations”.
Golan, a former deputy commander of the Israeli army, is the head of one of the largest minority parties in the Israeli parliament. His words – and similar comments made by former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in an interview with the BBC – represented a rare emphasis on Palestinian suffering by directing Israeli political figures. Most of the interior criticisms of the war have focused on the fate of the hostages held in Gaza.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, rejected criticism as “shocking”.
“While the FDI soldiers fight Hamas, there are those who strengthen false propaganda against the state of Israel,” said Netanyahu, who directs the right right in the history of Israel.
The indirect ceasefire talks in the Qatari capital of Doha have failed. Israel recalled a large part of his negotiation team on Tuesday, saying that she would leave the lower level officials instead. The Qatari leaders, who mediate the negotiations, said that there was a big gap between the two parties they had not been able to fill.
The war in Gaza began when activists led by Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people, mainly civilians and removing 251 others. Activists still have 58 captives, of which about a third are considered alive, after most of the others have been returned to cease-fire agreements or other agreements.
The offensive that followed by Israel, which destroyed large expanses of Gaza, killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
