Palestinians in Gaza Mark ‘Eid of Tadness’

By Wafaa Shurafa, Mohammad Jahjouh and Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press

Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP)-The Palestinians of Gaza marked the normally festive EID al-Fitr on Sunday with declining and mourning food supplies for several children killed in the last air strikes in Israel.

There has been anger because the bodies of 14 emergency speakers were found in the southern city of Rafah a week after an Israeli attack, which the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies called “the deadliest attack against workers in the Red Croix Red Croix since 2017”.

Many Palestinians have prayed outside the demolished mosques to mark the end of the Ramadan Muslim fasting month. It is supposed to be a joyful opportunity where families feast on themselves and buy new clothes for children, but most of the 2 million people in Gaza are just trying to survive.

“It is the Eid of sadness,” said Adel Al-Shaer after attending prayers in the middle of the rubble in the central city of Deir al-Balah. “We have lost our loved ones, our children, our lives and our future.”

Twenty members of his extended family were killed by Israeli strikes, including four young nephews a few days ago, he said and started to cry.

Israel ended the ceasefire with Hamas and resumed the 17-month war earlier this month with a surprise bombardment that killed hundreds, after the militant group refused to accept the modifications of the truce reached in January. Israel has not authorized food, fuel or humanitarian aid to enter Gaza for a month.

“There are murders, travel, hunger and a seat,” said Saed Al-Kourd, a worshiper. “We go out to perform the rituals of God in order to make children happy, but as for the joy of Eid?” There is no Eid. “

Arab mediators try to put the truce on the right track. Hamas said on Saturday that he had accepted a new proposal from Egypt and Qatar. Israel said he had made a counter-proposition in coordination with the United States, which also mediated. The details were not immediately known.

Emergency workers’ bodies found

The Palestinian Red Crescent-Red Society said that the bodies of eight of its emergency medical technicians and five Gaza Civil Defense members were recovered a week after them and their ambulances disappeared in Rafah during heavy shots.

The PRCS said that a ninth colleague was always missing, adding that doctors targeting “can only be considered as a war crime.”

The Gaza Ministry of Health said that some bodies had been linked and pulled in the chest, and it called on the United Nations and other international organizations to investigate and hold responsible Israel.

The Israeli army said on Sunday that its troops had opened fire on vehicles “advancing with suspicion” without emergency signals or movement coordinated in advance. He said nine “terrorists” had been killed.

Netanyahu has conditions to end war

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would continue military operations during the negotiation. He rejected the assertions that Israel does not want to end the war, while providing conditions that go far beyond the ceasefire agreement and were rejected by Hamas.

“Hamas will disarm. Its leaders will be allowed to go out. We will monitor general security in the Gaza Strip and allow the plan of (President Donald) Trump,” Netanyahu said at a meeting of the cabinet.

Trump proposed that the Gaza population is reinstalled in other countries so that the United States can redevelop Gaza for others. The Palestinians say they don’t want to leave their homeland. Human rights experts claim that the plan would probably violate international law.

Sunday morning, the Israeli strikes killed at least 16 people, including nine children and three women, according to Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis.

Two girls seemed to wear new clothes bought for the holidays, according to a cameraman Associated Press, including impeccable sneakers.

On Sunday evening, a strike struck a tent at Deir al-Balah and killed at least two people, according to a journalist after the hospital.

The war began when activists led by Hamas burst into Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mainly civilians and taking 251 hostages. Hamas still holds 59 captives – 24 which would be alive.

Israel’s offensive killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count. Israel says he killed around 20,000 activists, without providing evidence, and blamed civilian deaths in Hamas because he operates in densely populated areas.

Israel approves a controversial project in the West Bank

The Netanyahu security firm approved the construction of a road for the Palestinians in occupied West Bank. The criticisms say that this will open the door to Israel to annex a key area just outside Jerusalem, more soothing the feasibility of a future Palestinian state.

Netanyahu’s office said the project was aimed at rationalizing trips to Palestinians in the communities near the great Jewish colony of Maaleh Adumim.

Peace Now, a group of Israeli anti -class surveillance dogs, said the road will divert Palestinian traffic outside Maaleh Adumim and the surrounding area known as E1, an open land deemed essential to the territorial contiguity of a future state.

This will facilitate annex E1 for Israel, according to Hagit ofran, an expert in group regulations, because Israel can claim that there is no disturbance of the Palestinian movement.

Critics say that Israeli colonies and other land seizures make an increasingly impossible contiguous future. Several Cisjordanie roads are intended to be used by Israelis or Palestinians, who, according to international rights groups, are part of an apartheid system, the allegations rejected by Israel.

Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war. The Palestinians want the three for their future state. A two -state solution is largely considered to be the only way to resolve the conflict of several decades.

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Jahjouh reported Khan Younis, Gaza Strip and Goldenberg of Tel Aviv, Israel. Fatma Khaled associated press writers in Cairo and Jamey Kealen in Geneva contributed to this report.

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