It is unclear whether the escape corridor for civilians in Gaza will work. It is also questionable whether further aid supplies will reach the area today. An Israeli minister is suspended after a statement.
It doesn’t seem to be working again: The Israeli military had named a time window in which a “humanitarian corridor” should be opened for the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli army spokesman called on people in Arabic on the X news service – the former Twitter – to move to the south of the coastal strip for their own safety. The military also published a map showing the street.
The time slot should have started at 10 a.m. local time. According to information from employees of the ARD However, the road is not yet freely passable.
Will more aid arrive?
Thirty more trucks carrying aid supplies arrived in the Gaza Strip. It is unclear whether further urgently needed aid deliveries from Egypt will be allowed into the Gaza Strip today. In any case, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari rejected allegations that his country was blocking further aid deliveries.
In any case, we are not the bottleneck on this issue. In terms of controls and the number of trucks, we check much more than just what water, medicine and food can get into Gaza. It’s not up to us. But one thing is clear: fuel does not reach Gaza.
“We pull people out with our own hands”
Israel says it has bombed more than 2,500 targets in the Gaza Strip since October 7th. Half of all buildings in Gaza City are said to have been destroyed, reports the Health Ministry, run by the militant Islamist Hamas.
Another refugee camp is said to have been hit during a bombardment during the night. The terrorist organization Hamas said at least 38 people were killed. This number cannot be independently verified.
Images from the Reuters news agency show people trying to save lives from the rubble with their bare hands. Among them is Saeed Al-Najma. “We were sleeping peacefully in the house, my brothers, my daughters and my grandchildren. Then there was an explosion in the street. This four-story building collapsed, as did this three-story building,” he says. “All night long I’ve been pulling bodies out from under the rubble, including children. We don’t know what to do, we’re pulling people out with our own hands.”
A nuclear bomb on Gaza?
And according to Amichai Eliyahu, the right-wing but less influential Israeli minister for Jerusalem affairs, the destruction could be even greater.
Asked on the religious broadcaster Kol Hai whether a nuclear bomb on Gaza would be an option, Eliyahu replied in all seriousness: “That would be a possibility.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described his minister’s comments as “far from any reality.” He has since released him from cabinet meetings.
The “Forum of Hostages and Missing Persons” was shocked by the minister’s statements. International law, moral standards and common sense would clearly prohibit the use of weapons of mass destruction, it made clear.