A four-year-old Palestinian girl died during an attack on a checkpoint in East Jerusalem, not far from the West Bank town of Biddu. The little girl, according to the Israeli police, was hit “accidentally” by bullets fired by the agents in an attempt to neutralize the two people in the car who hit a border guard, slightly injuring him. The attackers, a man and a woman, also died. In Jenin, also in the West Bank, an air raid conducted with drones by Tel Aviv forces caused the death of at least seven people, while an Israeli border police officer, 18-year-old Sergeant Shay Germay, lost her life in the explosion of a bomb that hit the vehicle he was traveling in. And again: an Israeli was shot dead in the West Bank. A bloody Sunday that did not spare journalists: two died in an Israeli attack west of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip. 29-year-old Hamza Al-Dahdouh, one of the slain reporters, was the son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau director Wael Al-Dahdouh. Together with him, freelancer Mustafa Tharaya lost his life. In another raid in the Strip, Ali Salem Abu Ajwa, also a journalist, and nephew of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who founded Hamas in Gaza in 1987 and was its spiritual leader until he was killed by Israel in 2004, died. Al Jazeera he “firmly” condemned the killing of journalists by Israel which has the aim of “discouraging” reporters “from carrying out their mission, violating the principles of freedom of the press”. For Hamas, Israel aims to “intimidate journalists in a failed attempt to obscure the truth and prevent media coverage.”
While the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, spoke of: “Unimaginable tragedy”. Deaths that worsen the toll of three months of war. In the Gaza Strip, according to the local Ministry of Health, over 22,800 Palestinians died in the Israeli operation. Above all, children are suffering from the offensive. According to Save The Children, every day in the enclave more than 10 minors lose a limb. Tel Aviv, for its part, after announcing the dismantling of Hamas’ military capabilities in the north of the enclave, claimed responsibility for the killing, in the same area, of 8,000 militiamen in attacks launched in response to the massacres of 7 October. The crisis is at the center of the new diplomatic tour, the fourth since the start of the war, by Blinken, who met King Abdullah II in Jordan before going to Qatar. The Jordanian ruler warned the US official about the “catastrophic repercussions” of the war in Gaza. Blinken responded to Amman’s concerns about possible Israeli plans to resettle Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank by highlighting “United States opposition to the forcible displacement of Palestinians” from both territories. Israeli President Isaac Herzog also spoke on the topic, claiming that resettlement “is absolutely not the position of the Israeli government, the Israeli parliament or Israeli public opinion.” American concern remains alive about a possible extension of the conflict to Lebanon. US officials interviewed by the Washington Post said that the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may want a real war with Hezbollah for a matter of political gain. A stern warning came from Netanyahu himself to the Lebanese militiamen: «Hezbollah learn what Hamas has already learned in recent months, no terrorist is immune, he warned.
2024-01-07 20:59:00
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