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Des combats acharnés ont de nouveau opposé dimanche les soldats israéliens au Hamas dans la bande de Gaza, où l’armée poursuit sa progression.
Les lignes téléphoniques et l’internet à Gaza ont été coupées par Israël, pour la troisième fois depuis le 7 octobre, selon l’opérateur palestinien Paltel.
La guerre a fait plus de 11 000 morts depuis le 7 octobre, au moins 9770 à Gaza et plus de 1400 en Israël.
L’armée israélienne progresse dans la bande de Gaza
Déjà, l’enclave a été coupée en deux dans le cadre d’opérations terrestres de l’armée israélienne, a indiqué un de ses porte-parole, dimanche. « Nous permettons encore un passage pour les civils du nord de la bande de Gaza et de la ville de Gaza vers le sud », a-t-il précisé, alors que de 300 000 à 400 000 personnes se trouveraient encore dans le nord du territoire, où la situation humanitaire est jugée catastrophique. Des images diffusées dans la journée par l’armée ont montré des soldats, accompagnés de chars et de bulldozers, patrouillant dans les décombres ou le long du littoral méditerranéen de la bande de Gaza. Au moins 30 soldats israéliens ont été tués depuis le début de cette offensive terrestre, toujours selon l’armée.
« La situation est très effrayante »
PHOTO MAHMUD HAMS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Une frappe israélienne dans le camp de réfugiés d’Al-Maghazi, à Deir al-Balah, a fait d’importants dégâts.
Pendant ce temps, la population palestinienne continue d’endurer les affres de la guerre : pas moins de 1,5 million de Gazaouis ont maintenant dû quitter leur domicile sur une population d’environ 2 millions d’habitants. « La situation est très difficile. Il n’y a pas de pain, pas d’eau, rien, même pas d’eau salée. On a vu des cadavres [sur la route], the children were very scared. The situation was very scary,” said Zakaria Akel, who was fleeing with his family to the south of the Gaza Strip. Around 50 UN-run sites have been damaged in the enclave since October 7, the agency said in an update released on Sunday. In small relief, the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, announced early Monday morning the airdrop of emergency medical aid to Gaza initially intended for a Jordanian field hospital.
Blinken in the West Bank
PHOTO JONATHAN ERNST, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken upon arrival in Ramallah, where he spoke with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
Passing through Ramallah, in the West Bank, on Sunday, American Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned against the “forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. He also called for an end to “extremist violence” in the other Palestinian enclave he was visiting and where more than 150 residents have been killed by gunfire from Israeli soldiers or settlers since October 7, according to the Authority. Palestinian. Its president, Mahmoud Abbas, denounced “the war of genocide” led, according to him, by Israel in Gaza. Following trips to the region, Antony Blinken also discussed in Cyprus the creation of “a maritime corridor”, proposed by the eastern Mediterranean island in order to provide humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory. In a rare joint outing, the directors of major UN agencies expressed outrage at the toll of civilian casualties in Gaza and called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the war between Israel and Hamas.
Mass evacuation to Egypt proposed
PHOTO SAID KHATIB, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
The sun sets over Rafah, whose border post allows Gazans to evacuate to Egypt.
Israel has discreetly tried in recent weeks to obtain international support for the transfer of several hundred thousand civilians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt, while it completes its offensive in the enclave, according to reports. reported the New York Times, citing six high-ranking foreign diplomats. The idea was rejected by almost all the Jewish state’s interlocutors, the daily reports, due to fears that such a massive displacement would become permanent. The appearance of refugee camps could particularly destabilize Egypt, according to the diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The idea has also been strongly rejected by Palestinians, who fear Israel could use the war to permanently displace the more than two million people living in the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli ultranationalist sanctioned
An ultranationalist Israeli minister was sanctioned on Sunday by the head of government, Benjamin Netanyahu, after affirming that using a nuclear bomb in the Gaza Strip, in the war against Palestinian Hamas, was “an option”. Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu said in a radio interview that he was not entirely satisfied with the scale of Israeli retaliation in the Palestinian territory following the deadly Hamas attack on the land. Israeli on October 7. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office quickly reacted by denouncing statements “disconnected from reality” and adding that the Israeli army was trying to spare “non-combatants” in Gaza.
With The Canadian Press, Agence France-Presse, The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz