Israeli strikes increased on Monday, May 13, in different sectors of the Gaza Strip, where, according to the United Nations, there are no longer “safe place” for the approximately 2.4 million inhabitants. They target in particular the city of Rafah, populated alone by 1.4 million Palestinians, the majority displaced by bombings and fighting.
Israeli activists block a humanitarian aid convoy bound for Gaza. Activists from the Tsav 9 group once again blocked humanitarian aid trucks at the Tarqumia crossing point in the West Bank.
Gazan hospitals in agony. Gaza’s health ministry, administered by Hamas, warned that the healthcare system was “a few hours from collapse” fault of “fuel needed to run hospital generators, ambulances and personnel transportation”.
The critical situation in Rafah. A vast operation on Rafah would risk creating “chaos”, “the anarchy” And “huge damage” for the civilian population, warned American Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “There will always be thousands of armed Hamas members”he warned, the Islamist movement being “returned to the areas that Israel liberated”.
The UN calls for a ceasefire. Antonio Guterres on Sunday again called for a ceasefire and the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip at a conference in Kuwait where donors pledged more than $2 billion over two years for humanitarian operations in Gaza.