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Israel-Hamas War, Secretary Blinks Again to the Middle East

2024-06-08 09:12:53Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Israel-Hamas War, Secretary Blinks Again to the Middle East

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returns to the Middle East on Sunday in hopes of persuading Israel and Hamas militants to accept a ceasefire deal designed to stop fighting, free hostages and allow more humanitarian aid into the Strip. of war-torn Gaza.

A US State Department announcement on Friday said the top US diplomat will stress the importance of Hamas accepting the ceasefire proposal outlined in a speech by US President Joe Biden a week ago, a proposal that it is almost identical to the one adopted by Hamas last month. Secretary Blinken's three-day trip will include stops in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Qatar.

Secretary Blinken's latest visit to the region comes as Israel's offensive in Gaza continues in full swing. Israeli tanks and warplanes hit the central and southern areas of this territory overnight and during Friday. Reuters news agency, citing local medical officials, reported that at least 28 Palestinians were killed.

In northern Gaza, Palestinian emergency workers said three people were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a UN-run school. The Israeli military said it was targeting Hamas gunmen operating from inside the school.

Israel used the same explanation on Thursday after an airstrike on a school operated by the UN aid agency, known as UNRWA, in Gaza's central Nuseirat refugee camp, which Gaza's health ministry said killed 40 people. UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said he found the claim that Hamas was operating from inside the school shocking and said his agency was unable to verify the claim.

In a report released Friday, the UN Human Rights Office said Thursday's airstrike on the UN school in the Nuseirat refugee camp suggests a failure by the Israeli military to ensure strict compliance with International Humanitarian Legislation. Tensions between the UN and Israel escalated further on Friday when Israel's UN envoy Gilad Erdan said he had been notified that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was adding the Israeli military to a global list of peace violators. children's rights.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a post on his X social network account, responded by writing: “Today, the UN added itself to the blacklist of history when it joined those who support the killers of Hamas. The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) is the most moral army in the world, no delirious UN decision will change that." The report is compiled annually by the Secretary-General to document the killing, maiming, sexual abuse, abduction or recruitment of children, the denial of access to aid and the targeting of schools and hospitals. It will be officially published and presented to the 15-member Security Council on June 18.

Meanwhile, the US military said a temporary pier to deliver aid to Gaza by sea has been reconnected to the beach after it was earlier damaged by storms in late May. Food and other supplies will begin moving into Gaza "as soon as possible ... in the next few days," US Central Command vice chairman Rear Admiral Brad Cooper told reporters on Friday.

Hamas on October 7 launched a terrorist attack on Israel, killing about 1,200 people, according to Israeli figures, and taking about 250 hostages. Hamas is still holding about 120 hostages in Gaza, although the Israeli military says at least 37 of them are dead. Punitive Israeli airstrikes and ground offensives have killed at least 36,600 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to Gaza's health ministry. /VOA


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