Like Aviv, Israel (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday Decision to resume limited aid to Gaza After a blockade of a week came after the pressure of the allies who said that they would not be able to grant Israel the support he needs to win the war as long as there were “hunger images” from the Palestinian territory.
Israel has faced the condemnation of the United Nations, aid groups and certain European allies for its blockade of goods in the territory ravaged by war, including food, fuel and medicine.
On Sunday, he said that he would allow “basic” aid to Gaza to prevent the “hunger crisis” from developing. Food experts have already warned that The blockade was likely to trigger the famine In Gaza, a territory of around 2 million people.
The decision to let in the aid intervenes while Israel intensifies his offensive in the Gaza Strip in what he says is an attempted pressure from Hamas to accept a cease-fire agreement under Israel. Monday, a military spokesman ordered the evacuation of the second largest city in Gaza, Khan Younis, where Israel carried out a massive operation earlier in the war that left A large part of the ruined area.
Below The newly launched air and terrestrial offensiveIsrael plans to move hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and ensure a distribution of aid inside the territory.
Netanyahu said on Monday that the plan would include “taking control of all the Gaza”.
Netanyahu warns against a “red line” on Gaza
Under the Trump administration, the United States – Israel’s best ally – above all avoided criticizing the footsteps of Israel in his war against Hamas, and blamed the militant group for the humanitarian crisis.
But that has increasingly highlighted the fate of civilians in Gaza. President Donald Trump during his recent trip to the Middle East – a visit where He did not stop in Israel – expressed his concern concerning the humanitarian situation in Gaza, as was his Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who declared during a visit to Türkiye that he was “disturbed” by this.
In a video statement published on social networks, Netanyahu said that the allies of Israel had expressed their concern about “hunger images”.
The “biggest friends in the world” in Israel, “he said, including senators, but without mentioning specific nationalities, said there was” something that we cannot bear. We cannot accept images of hunger, mass hunger. We cannot bear this. We will not be able to support you. »»
Netanyahu said the situation was approaching a “red line” and a “dangerous point”, but it was not clear if it was referring to the crisis in Gaza or the potential loss of support for the allies.
“Therefore, to win the victory, we have to somehow solve the problem,” said Netanyahu.
The video declaration seemed to pacify the anger of the nationalist base of Netanyahu to the decision to resume help. Netanyahu was under pressure from two far -right partners governing not to return aid to Gaza. At least one of them said on Monday that he was from the decision.
Netanyahu says a “minimum” help to let in
The aid that would be let in would be “minimal”, said Netanyahu, without specifically specifying when he resumes, and would act as a bridge towards the start of a new approach to help delivery to Gaza, who will see a The organization supported by the United States distributes aid In the hubs organized in Gaza which will be secured by the Israeli army.
Israel says that the plan is intended to prevent Hamas from accessing the aid, which Israel says that it uses to strengthen its rule in Gaza.
Aid groups say that the mechanism is not practical, that it will not reach the most vulnerable Palestinians and does not say they participate because it does not align with their humanitarian principles.
An official of the United Nations said that a shipment of 20 aid trucks mainly carrying food is expected to enter on Monday. The manager was not authorized in brief the media and spoke under the cover of anonymity.
The Israeli authorities did not comment when the aid begins to enter.
A photographer from the Associated Press saw at least three trucks loaded with humanitarian aid on the Israeli side of a crossing with Gaza, but they returned to Israel shortly after.
The Palestinians say that an Israeli infiltration raid killed an activist
While the aid was waiting to enter the territory again, the fighting continued to rage there, including a raid early in the morning in the southern city of Khan Younis by what the Palestinian residents said an infiltrated Israeli force disguised as displaced Palestinians.
The force killed Ahmed Sarhan, a chief of the armed wing of popular resistance committees, during a shooting, said the group, and held his wife and child, according to Palestinian witnesses.
The forces led a civilian vehicle and carried out the heavy air raid, killing at least six people, including Sarhan, according to Nasser Hospital. They wore what seemed to be luggage and blankets on their white vehicle.
Also on Monday, an Israeli air strike on a school that has become Shelter for the Palestinians displaced in the Nuseirat refugee camp killed five people, including a woman and a girl, and injuries, mainly children, according to the Al-Awda hospital, which made the victims.
The Israeli army made no immediate comments on the two incidents.
The war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023 when activists led by Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and removing 251 others. Israel’s reprisal offensive killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, including many women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not make the difference between civilians and combatants in its count.
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Magdy reported Cairo and Shurafa de Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip.
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