The “intensive” phase of the fighting is coming to an end. The “intensive” phase of the fighting in southern Gaza “will end soon”, Israel now estimates, at a time when the Hamas administration puts the death toll from this war at 24,000, 1% of the local population. is still spreading in the region. During the night, the Israeli plane bombed the Khan Younes sector, the epicenter of ground fighting and air raids in recent weeks where, according to the Israeli army, the local leadership of Hamas is hiding. According to the press office of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Israeli strikes across Gaza left a total of 78 dead and many injured during the evening and night.
“Israel’s future depends on the outcome of this war.” At the start of the war, which passed its 100th day, “we clearly said that the intensive stage of operations would last approximately three months,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said. “In the north of Gaza, this phase is coming to an end. In the south, we are going to achieve it and it will end soon,” he added, asserting that Hamas’s Khan Yunis brigade was “disintegrating.” “Our enemies and our friends alike are following the war in Gaza and watching us. The future of the State of Israel, here in our land, depends on the outcome of this war.”
Hamas announces the death of two hostages. Hamas reported on Monday the death of two Israeli hostages, broadcasting a video in which we see a young woman – also a hostage and visibly under pressure – announcing the deaths. No indication of the filming date is given in the video. “They were killed in Zionist bombings on Gaza,” the armed wing of Hamas said in a statement. The IDF rejected these “lies” and denounced the “brutal use of hostages of innocent people.”
The UN launches a new call for a humanitarian “ceasefire”. The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”, necessary according to him to ensure humanitarian aid but also “to facilitate the release of the hostages”. “We continue to demand rapid, safe, unimpeded, extensive, and continuous humanitarian access into and through Gaza,” he told reporters, adding that “nothing can justify the collective punishment inflicted on the Palestinian people.” “.
The winter of all risks? Gaza’s approximately 2.4 million residents, the vast majority of whom have been displaced, now lack everything. In a joint statement, UNICEF, the World Food Program (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday of a “risk of famine” and “epidemics of deadly diseases ” and this, in the middle of the cold of winter.