TEL AVIV – From Jerusalem to Ramallah to Haifa and Tira, Palestinians and Arab-Israelis joined the general strike called to protest against the Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip and the situation of Palestinians in the occupied territories. In Ramallah, in the main square of Al-Manara, a crowd gathered to protest; images of closed shops and lowered shutters also come from Hebron, East Jerusalem and the Old City, as well as Haifa, Jaffa and Kafr Qara; in Tira, a predominantly Arab city north of Tel Aviv, demonstrators set up a roadblock
Rockets even in the morning
After about 6 hours of quiet, the launch of rockets from Gaza towards Israel has recently resumed. The area under attack, according to the Israeli army, is Ofakim in the south of the country not far from the Strip, where alarm sirens have sounded. The last launch – before this one in progress – took place around 6 in the morning. (local time)
Diplomacy
The Israeli army launched another strong wave of air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Monday night: according to the military bulletin, more of the underground tunnels linking the Strip to Egypt and the homes of nine Hamas commanders were destroyed. Meanwhile, the efforts of international diplomacy continue to end the war that has already lasted for a week and has killed hundreds of people: but so far progress has been limited. The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu he said he wanted to continue his attacks on Hamas, the militant group that governs Gaza, for now, and the United States signaled that it would not press both sides for a ceasefire. Meanwhile, there is also tension on the border with Lebanon: six rockets fired in the night against Israel.
America and Europe are now pushing for a truce
by Sharon Nizza
Yesterday evening was marked by a new conversation between the US president Joe Biden and Netanyahu, the third since the start of the crisis. : Biden for the first time called for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, while clearly reiterating that Israel “has the right to defend itself against indiscriminate rocket attacks” by Hamas.
Associated Press director calls for an investigation into the bombed media building in Gaza
The latest attacks destroyed the five-story building housing the Hamas-run Ministry of Religious Affairs, a building that Israel claims housed the main operations center of Hamas’ internal security forces. Israel also killed a prominent Gaza leader of Islamic Jihad, another militant group that the Israeli military blames for some of the thousands of missile attacks launched against Israel in recent days.
The budget
At least 212 Palestinians were killed in air strikes this week, including 61 children and 36 women, with more than 1,400 people injured, according to the Gaza health ministry. Ten people in Israel, including a 5-year-old boy and a soldier, were killed in rocket attacks launched from Gaza.
Violence also broke out between Jews and Arab-Israelis inside Israel, with dozens of people injured. On Monday, a Jewish man assaulted last week by a group of Arabs in the central city of Lod died of his injuries.
Netanyahu met with Israel’s top security officials on Monday evening and said Israel “will continue to hit terrorist targets” in Gaza.
Hamas writes to Khamenei
The head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, sent in the past few hours a letter to the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, to ask for further support in the conflict against Israel. “Today, the criminal enemy, with the deadliest international weapons banned, commits the most barbaric crimes against the people of Gaza, and the vilest crimes against protesters in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the occupied territories of 1948. Faced with these crimes. relentlessly – writes Haniyeh in the message, quoted by the Mehr agency – we call for the immediate mobilization of the Muslim, Arab and international communities to take determined positions and force the Zionist enemy to put an end to its crimes “.
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