More and more accusations against Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip
"Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food and fuel, deliberately obstructing humanitarian aid, apparently destroying agricultural land and depriving the civilian population of goods essential to their survival," criticized Human Rights Watch.
In a reaction,Israel accused the human rights organization of anti-Semitism. It was an "anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli organization", the Israeli government declared. HRW had not condemned the attacks by Islamist Hamas on Israeli citizens on October 7 and had "no moral basis to talk about what is happening in Gaza when they turn a blind eye to the suffering and human rights of Israelis," Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat told the AFP news agency.
On 7 October, hundreds of fighters from the radical Islamic Hamas, which is classified as a terrorist organization by the EU and the USA, invaded Israeli towns and committed atrocities against civilians. According to Israeli reports, around 1140 people were killed and around 250 people were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip.
In response, the Israeli army has since bombed targets in the Gaza Strip and launched a ground offensive. According to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health, which cannot be independently verified, around 18,800 people have been killed so far.
"We are witnessing an appalling lack of differentiation in Israel's military operation in Gaza," wrote EU foreign policy chief Borrell in online networks. "Hundreds" of civilians had been killed by the army. "This must stop. A humanitarian pause is urgently needed."
On Friday, Israel admitted that soldiers in the Gaza Strip had accidentally killed three Israeli hostages who had escaped from their captors. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem also stated that an Israeli soldier had shot dead a Palestinian Christian woman and her daughter on the grounds of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. The army promised to investigate the incident.
On Monday, Hamas declared that 110 Palestinians had been killed in the town of Jabalia since Sunday as a result of shelling several houses. The Israeli army declared that "Hamas is deliberately and systematically placing military targets among the civilian population", thereby exposing its citizens to danger.
Meanwhile, the number of Israeli soldiers killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip rose to 126, according to the army.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) accused Israel of having de facto destroyed a hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed his "horror at the de facto destruction of the Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip in recent days" in the short message service X.
In response, the Israeli mission to the United Nations accused Tedros of not pointing out that Hamas had entrenched itself in the hospital. In addition, the Israeli army had conceded a "humanitarian window" before the attack and the majority of the hospital had been evacuated.
The UN Security Council in New York wanted to discuss the Gaza war again on Monday. It was to vote on a draft resolution calling for an "immediate and sustainable cessation of hostilities".
Since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, violence has also flared up in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Health, four Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the Al-Fara refugee camp near the town of Tubas on Monday. This brings the number of Palestinians killed in Israeli military operations or by settlers in the West Bank since October 7 to 301.
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- The EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, expressed concern over the Israeli military operation in Gaza, stating, "We are witnessing an appalling lack of differentiation."
- Human Rights Watch criticized the Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip, alleging that Israeli forces were blocking the delivery of essential goods and destroying agricultural land.
- Following this criticism, the Israeli government accused Human Rights Watch of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli bias.
- On October 7, tension escalated in the Gaza Strip when hundreds of Hamas fighters attacked Israeli towns, resulting in the death of over 1140 people, according to Israeli reports.
- In response, the Israeli army launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of around 18,800 people, according to Hamas-controlled sources.
- Borrell reproached Israel for the high number of civilian casualties in its military operations, calling for a humanitarian pause.
- Lior Haiat, the Foreign Ministry spokesman for Israel, countered these accusations, stating that Hamas was placing military targets among civilians, thereby endangering its own population.
- The Israeli mission at the United Nations rebutted the World Health Organization's accusations of destroying a hospital in Gaza, claiming that Hamas had used the hospital as a military base before the attack.
Source: www.stern.de
