Gaza: Fighting Continues Despite UN Call for “Cease Fire” · Global Voices

On Monday (25.03.2024) it may have been approved, for the first time since the outbreak of the conflict, by the United Nations Security Council which claims to be declared “direct ceasefire” in the region, but sparking its rage, however the air raids and battles continue in the . Early in the morning the Hamas Health Ministry spoke of 70 dead during the night, among them 13 in air bombings near Rafa, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip, on the closed border with Egypt, where they have found shelter nearly 1.5 million. Palestinians, in their vast majority displaced from other areas of the female, which has been transformed in the last nearly six months into a multi-blooded war theatre between the Israeli army and Hamas. At the same time, rocket launch alerts were activated in areas of Israeli territory around the Gaza Strip, according to the army. Yesterday, for the first time since the outbreak of this war, the UN SA adopted, with 14 votes in favour and an abstention — that of the US — a decision calling for a ‘immediate ceasefire’. Israel’s historical ally and protective force in the international forums, Washington opposed until yesterday the use of the term ‘suppression of fire’ and vetoed three times in a text containing it. The text “requires immediate cease-fire during the month of the ramadan”, which began two weeks ago, which should lead to a “permanent cease-fire”, as well as “direct and unconditional release of all hostages”. Not implementing this decision would be “inexcusable”, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres considered after the outcome of this vote, which was welcomed by practically all major capitals. Israel v. Washington After the decision was adopted, Israel announced the cancellation of its high-ranking delegation visit to the American capital. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government considered that the American abstention during the UN vote “damaged” both the Israeli military operation and the attempts to free hostages. “This is a clear abandonment of the United States’ consistent position in the Security Council since the outbreak of the war” on October 7th, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s services announced. “We do not have the moral right to stop the Gaza war while there are hostages in Gaza,” Israeli Defence Minister Joav Galland, who was visiting the US, opposed. “The outcome of this war will affect the region in the coming years,” he continued, insisting on the need, according to the Netanyahu government, for Hamas to be “beat” so that Israel’s security is guaranteed. American former president Donald Trump, often described as the most pro-Israeli in history, said yesterday in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom that Israel must “end” with the war in the Gaza Strip, because it is heading to lose “many support” at international level. Gaza’s protection? Hamas “helloed” the UN SA decision and accused Israel of the “fail” of talks, mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the US, in order to declare a six-week ceasefire, accompanied by the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. In the Gaza Strip, Palestinians who met the French Agency expressed satisfaction with the decision, calling on the US to exercise their influence in Israel to achieve a ceasefire. “America must protect Rafa as it protected Israel,” found Bilal Awad, displaced from Han Eunice (south). The war broke out on October 7, when Hamas’ military arm marched on the Gaza Strip unprecedented attack in southern areas of Israeli territory, which cost life to over 1,160 people, in their majority civilians, according to a French Agency count based on official Israeli data. According to Israeli sources, some 250 other people were kidnapped that day, of which over 130 are believed to still be held in the enclave — but 33 are believed to be dead. In retaliation, Israel’s political leadership vowed to “eliminate” Hamas, a movement that characterizes, like the US and the EU, a “terrorist” organization. He launched a campaign of unstoppable air, land and sea bombings, followed by land operations, originally in the north, then in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip. By yesterday, at least 32,333 people had died in Israeli military operations, in the vast majority of civilians, during the Hamas Ministry of Health. ‘Not even food’ In the field, the situation remains critical for the 2.4 million inhabitants of the narrow strip of land under absolute siege and threatened with famine, according to the UN and international organisations. At least two large hospitals, which in Israel were converted into Hamas bases, were targeted by the Israeli army, a week after the operation started in Ash Shifa, Gaza — the largest health structure throughout the enclave. This hospital and the outskirts were bombarded with artillery, according to Hamas, as was the area where Amal hospital is located, Han Eunice. The Palestinian Red Crescent announced on the night that she rushed 27 members of her staff out of Amal, after the hasty removal yesterday Sunday of displaced people who had taken refuge there. In Jabalia, in the north, inhabitants, among them women and children, line yesterday to fill containers with water; They were carried by handcars, carts, in the hands… “We don’t even have food to give us the energy to go find water, without talking about innocent children, women, the elderly,” said Bassam Mohammed al Howe, a resident. Humanitarian aid, which comes mainly from Egypt via Rafas, is subject to strict controls by Israel and reaches the Gaza Strip with the dropper, which prompts governments from various countries to drop from air, parachute, food parcels. Amid a major humanitarian crisis, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, announced yesterday Sunday that the Israeli authorities have now officially banned it from making any delivery of food aid to the northern part of the female, where the situation is dramatic. “World dies for a can of tuna,” said Mohammad al Sabawi, a resident of the female, showing the camera the only can of food he could find. Not far from there, another man said he played his life crown letters for a can of beans that “will be shared with 18 people”.