US Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged the discrepancy between stated goals and Israel’s actions in Gaza. He made a statement about this at the meeting press conferences At the Foreign Office with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron.
“There is still a gap between their intention to protect civilians and the actual results we see on the ground,” the US official said.
In this context, he called on Israel to pay special attention to a number of issues, including the establishment of communications in Gaza and the expansion of safe zones from individual settlement areas to larger areas.
Before that in Israel reported About rocket attacks from humanitarian zones in Gaza.
The situation in the Middle East escalated further on October 7, when Hamas announced the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and thousands of armed supporters of the movement entered Israel from the Gaza Strip. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s “Iron Swords” intervention operation was to repel the attack, free more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza only started to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint on October 21, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. November 5, as part of the ground operation of IDF forces surrounded We cut off Gaza city from its food source.
November 22 Israel and Hamas To agree About the release of Gumpuse and some hostages. The ceasefire agreement was officially signed on 24 November entry in force and finished On the morning of December 1st. Hamas ceasefire week launched 110 hostages were captured.
Formerly American political scientist Mearsheimer statedBiden is afraid of getting in the way of the Israel lobby.
Source: Gazeta
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