Israel Defense Minister warned that on Friday Gazas The largest city could be destroyed unless Hamas Results in the conditions of his country because the world’s leading authority for food crises stated that the city is grasped by famine before the struggle and an Israeli blockade.
One day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that he would authorize the military to take a great operation to take it Gaza City, Minister of Defense Israel Katz warned that she could turn into Rafah and Beit Hanoun, and the areas that were largely reduced to rubble at the beginning of the war.
“The gates of hell will soon be opened on the heads of the murderers and rapists of Hamas in Gaza – until they agree to the conditions of Israel for the end of the war,” wrote Katz in one position on X.
He issued the requirements of the ceasefire from Israel: the publication of all hostages and the complete disarmament of Hamas.
Hamas made an explanation in which Catz ‘comments “described a confession of the commission of a crime that corresponds to ethnic cleansing”.
The militant group said it would publish prisoners in exchange for the end of the war, but it rejects the disarmament without creating a Palestinian state.
In the meantime, US President Donald Trump was frustrated about the attitude of Hamas in the long-term ceasefire talks, which indicates that the militant group was less interested in doing business in order to publish hostages with so few lively living in captivity.
“The situation has to end. It is blackmail and it has to end,” Trump told reporters on Friday. “And we will see what happens. I actually think (the hostages) in many ways more secure if they went into it and they went in really quickly and they did it.”
Netanyahu said on Thursday that he had instructed the officials to “start negotiations immediately”, to publish hostages and to end the war on the conditions of Israel. It was not immediately clear whether this meant that Israel would return to long -term conversations that were mediated by Egypt and Qatar after the Hamas said at the beginning of this week that it accepted a new proposal from the mediators.
The Gaza city offensive could begin within a few days
Comprehensive operation in the city of Gaza could begin with soil troops that are already active in strategic areas within a few days.
According to Israel, Gaza City is still a Hamas stronghold with a network of militant tunnels after several previous large raids. The city also houses hundreds of thousands of civilians, some of whom have fled from other areas, and contains some of the critical infrastructure and health facilities of the territory.
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Israel could also accept the recent ceasefire proposal, which would prevent the offensive. The proposal requires a gradual deal with hostage and prison exchanges and a withdrawal of Israeli troops, while the conversations are continued about a longer-term armistice. The Israeli heads of state and government have opposed such conditions since they have completed a similar agreement at the beginning of this year under pressure from the extreme right coalition allies in Netanyahu.
Many Israelis fear that an attack may attack the around 20 hostages that captured captivity from Hamas since October 7, 2023.
Auxiliary groups and international leaders warn that renewed fights would worsen the humanitarian crisis of Gazas.
The logistics of evacuating civilians are expected to be discouraging. Many residents say that a repeated shift is pointless, since there is nowhere to be sure in Gaza, while medical groups warn that the call to Israel to move the patients to the south cannot be processed without receiving the facilities.
Netanyahu has argued that the offensive is the safest way to free prisoners and destroy Hamas.
“These two things that defeat Hamas and publish all of our hostages – go hand in hand,” said Netanyahu on Thursday when he toured a command center in southern Israel.
Since 251 people were taken hostage more than 22 months ago, Weasfire Agreement and other business have held the vast majority of 148, including the corpses of eight dead hostages.
Israel managed to save just eight hostages alive and find the body of 49 others. Fifty hostages remain in Gaza, of which around 20 Israel believes to be alive.
Report explains famine in Gaza city
The world’s leading authority for food crises explained on Friday that the city of Gaza is grasped by famine, which will probably spread if the struggle and the restrictions on humanitarian aid continue.
In a report of the integrated classification of nutritional safety phase, almost half a million people in Gaza Strip, about a quarter of the population, is exposed to catastrophic hunger, in which many are exposed to the risk of dying. It is the first famine from the IPC in the Middle East.
The Netanyahu office condemned the IPC report as “a complete lie”.
Israel says there has been enough help to get in during the war and it has been blocking in the past few weeks after pictures of emaciated children had triggered international outrage. However, the UN agencies say that it is not nearly enough, especially after Israel imposed a complete ban on food imports from early March to mid-May.
The area suggests air raid in front of a broader offensive
Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital said at least 17 Palestinians were killed on Friday when Israel escalated its activities in the area in the run-up to its broader offensive.
An Israeli air raid hit a school in Sheikh Radwan, a quarter of the city of Gaza, in which ten Palestinians protect themselves in the schoolyard in provisional tents. According to an eyewitness and hospital records, the attack killed at least seven people.
The Israeli military said that a strike in the area was not aware of, but in a statement it said that troops on the outskirts of the city of Gaza and in the Zeitoun’s neighborhood operated.
The strike is part of Israel’s continuing push in Gaza City, where witnesses in the days since the approved Israel have intensively reported its plans to take the city.
Amal Aboul Aas, who had now been driven out in Gaza after four times, said the explosions were so intense that she couldn’t sleep, but she couldn’t go.
“We don’t have the money, the resources or the energy to evacuate again. I only want a quick death exactly where I am here because I don’t go anywhere. After all, one of these rockets will meet me,” she told the Associated Press.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Friday that at least 62,263 Palestinians were killed in the war. Two other people have died of poor causes, which gives the total number of such deaths to 273, including 112 children, the Ministry said.
The Ministry is part of the government led by Hamas and is filled by medical specialists. It is not said whether the civilians or fighters killed by Israeli fire, but it is said that about half were women and children. The United Nations and many independent experts consider their numbers to be the most reliable estimate of the course of war times. Israel denies his tribute, but has not delivered his own.
The militants led by the Hamas began war when they attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, killed and took hostages.
Metz reported from Jerusalem. Melanie Lidman in Associated Press Press material in Tel Aviv, Israel and Michelle Price in Washington contributed.
