Netanyahu Pushes Forward With Gaza City Operation Despite Opposition

DEIR AL-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) -It The widespread opposition and international condemnation in Israel did not deter him from the plan of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Expand the operation of the Israeli army Gaza.

The Israeli Army began to seek to encourage medical officials and international organizations in the Northern Gaza Strip to evacuate before the expanded operation. The day comes after the army announces Calls of 60,000 reserves And the extension of 20,000 reserves that currently serve to support the expanded operation.

According to an official who is not authorized to speak to the media, Netanyahu is expected to give his final approval for the operation during a security cabinet meeting on Thursday night.

According to local hospitals, people and people protesting in Israel and Gaza are confirmed on Thursday, as at least 36 Palestinians were killed in strikes on the Middle and Southern Gaza Strip.

Although Israel targets and He killed most of Hamas’s senior leadershipAuthorized, a portion of Hamas actively grouping and performing attacks, including rocket launch towards Israel, said.

Israeli troops are already operating in Jabaliya, a refugee camp in Zeitouun neighborhood of the city and the Northern Gaza Strip, to prepare the ground for the expanded operation that can begin in days.

The planned attack on the beginning of this month comes during the international condemnation of Israel’s restrictions on food and medicine reaching Gaza and fear that many Palestinians will be forced to escape.

On Thursday, the United Nations Chief António Guterres reiterated his call for a ceasefire in Gaza, while preparing to start Israel’s new attack in Gaza city and other populated regions.

Guterres, Japan’s 9th Tokyo International Development Conference hosted at a press conference, “Gaza in a cease -fire in Gaza is vital to reach the ceasefire and a military operation against Gaza City inevitably caused by the major death and destruction of all the hostages to repeat the unconditional release of the hostages,” he said.

On Thursday, people protested against the expansion of the war in both Israel and Gaza. In the city of Gaza, hundreds of people shook flags and posters between destroyed buildings, rubble and tents, a rare opposition against war and forced migration.

Women and children participated in the protest, “Save of Gaza” and “Stop the war, stop the Savage attack, save us” banners reading.

Bisan Ghazal, a woman from the eastern part of the city of Gaza, said, uz We want the Gaza war to stop.

Palestinian NGO Network Director Amjad Al-Shawa said, ık We have lost more than 10% of our residents, 85% of our buildings and infrastructure, and most of our cultural and historical heritage, ”he said. “All Gaza is threatened by destruction.”

Some of the 50 hostages held in Israel, Gaza gathered in Tel Aviv to condemn the expanded operation. Israel believes that about 20 hostages are still alive.

Dalia Cusnir, who was still captured by brother -in -law Horn, was still kidnapped under captivity because of a delay in signing a military pressure and an agreement and was killed under captivity. Eitan’s brother, Iair Horn, released During the last ceasefire.

Bar Goddard, the daughter of Men Goddard, who was held by Hamas, said, “It is enough to sacrifice hostages. Soldiers are both regularly and enough to sacrifice reserves. It is enough to sacrifice those who have been evacuated. The young generation in the country is enough to sacrifice.”

Additional protests are planned for Thursday night in Tel Aviv.

Shifa Hospital, at least 36 people died in Gaza on Thursday, and on Wednesday, the death fee of deadly strikes in Northern Gaza reported that 39 more. According to the Al AWDA Hospital, the air strikes killed five people trying to get help in the center of Gaza, including eight people who took refuge in schools for their displaced people.

Nasser Hospital in Southern Gaza said that at least nine people were killed by trying to reach help and eight people were killed in an air strike near Khan Younis.

The Israeli army did not immediately comment on strikes, but often accused Hamas of hiding military infrastructure in civilian regions.

In the center of Deir-Al Balah, air strikes, according to the near Al Aqsa Hospital, destroyed at least 100 people displaced by the fight.

Witnesses, the targeted area of ​​smoke rises and spread rapidly from temporary shelters, he said. Civil defense teams ran to the site by trying to extinguish the flames. Many families with children have eliminated among the ashes of what they had managed to bring them with them during the previous release.

Muhammad Kahlout, which was replaced by Northern Gaza, expressed anger and despair in repeated attacks on civilians.

Im We came to the safe zone they call safe. “We are not terrorists, we are civilians. What is our mistake and what is the mistake of our children? These civilians are a camp for refugees. There is no resistance or nobody.”

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Thursday that the death fee from the Israeli-Hamas War reached 62,192.

In addition, he said that two more people died of hunger and malnutrition and brought the total number of these deaths to 271, including 112 children.

The Ministry is a part of the government operated by Hamas and is working by medical experts. The ministry does not say how many dead are civilians or warriors, but it is about half of women and children, he said. The UN and many independent experts see their figures as the most reliable estimation of war -time losses. Israel objected to the fee, but it did not give it on its own.

When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, they began to war, mostly killed civilians and kidnapped 251. Hamas said he would release the rest only in exchange for a permanent ceasefire and Israel withdrawal.