Israeli army announces it will not strike Gaza’s north-south road for three hours
While Israel called on the residents of Gaza City to leave quickly, an army spokesperson announced on going from the north of the Gaza Strip, where the eponymous city is located, to the south.
“If your safety and that of your loved ones is important to you, head south following our instructions,” he adds.
Palestinians who tried to flee to the south of the Gaza Strip were killed in Israeli strikes, witnesses told AFP and Hamas officials on Saturday, something the Israeli army disputes.
Palestinian authorities announce death toll in Gaza rises to 2,329
Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed 2,329 people, according to a latest report released Sunday by Hamas’ Palestinian Health Ministry, after an increase in bombings on this Palestinian territory controlled by the Islamist movement.
According to this source, 9,042 people were also injured in the strikes carried out in retaliation for the unprecedented attack by Hamas against Israel on October 7. A previous report reported more than 700 children dead in Gaza since that date.
Beijing believes that Israel acts “beyond the realm of self-defense”
Israel’s action in Gaza after the Hamas attack goes “beyond the realm of self-defense” and the Israeli government must stop “collectively punishing” Gazans, the Chinese affairs minister said. Wang Yi, in remarks broadcast on Sunday.
“Israel’s action has gone beyond the realm of self-defense” and its leaders must stop “collectively punishing the population of Gaza,” declared the head of Chinese diplomacy to his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan on Saturday, according to a statement from his ministry on Sunday.
WHO says evacuating thousands of patients from Gaza ‘would be the equivalent of a death sentence’
The forced evacuation of thousands of patients from northern Gaza to overwhelmed establishments in the south of the territory could be “the equivalent of a death sentence”, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Saturday evening.
“The WHO strongly condemns repeated Israeli orders to evacuate 22 hospitals treating more than 2,000 patients in northern Gaza,” the UN agency said in a statement, stressing that due to the state of saturation of the structures from southern Gaza it “would be the equivalent of a death sentence”.
US sends second aircraft carrier ‘to deter hostile actions against Israel’
The United States will send a second aircraft carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean “to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts to expand this war following the Hamas attack,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday .
The USS Eisenhower and its escort ships will join a first aircraft carrier deployed to the region after Hamas’ bloody attack on Israel on October 7, signaling “Washington’s unwavering commitment to the security of Israel and our determination to deter any state or non-state actor seeking to escalate this war,” Lloyd Austin added in a statement.
Israeli army assures that ground offensive on Gaza will not begin today
Pending a ground offensive for which Israel said it was preparing, the army on Friday called on civilians in the north of the territory – 1.1 million people out of a total of 2.4 million inhabitants – to win. the south, and urged them on Saturday not to “delay”.
But an army spokesperson said on Saturday evening that they were still giving the Palestinians time to leave for the south, and assured that the ground offensive would not start on Sunday, for humanitarian reasons.
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