As the DPA agency informed on Saturday, the Israeli security office is to discuss the issue of expanding hostilities in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. Meanwhile, according to the Israeli media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already basically approved plans to extend the surgery against Hamas during the meeting of the office of May 3.
The Israeli information portal Ynet has announced that the new offensive may start in the coming days. Its purpose is to increase the pressure on Islamist Hamas so that he releases hostages abducted from Israel after a terrorist attack at the beginning of October 2023. The Israeli army believes that 24 hostages remain in captivity and 35 kidnapped bodies are detained.
Humanitarian aid “on the edge of the total breakdown”
The intensification of the Israeli army's actions is to take place in connection with the growing pressure exerted on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abroad and in the country due to an impasse in peace conversations with Hamas. The war in the Gaza Strip lasts from October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked the south of Israel, killing about 1,200 people and abducting 251.
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned on Friday that the humanitarian aid system for the Gaza Strip is “on the edge of the total breakdown” because of the Israeli blockade. Israel has been suspending deliveries to Palestinian territories of food, medicines and fuels for two months.
According to data controlled by HAMAS, the Ministry of Health from the beginning of Israel's military operation started in the autumn of 2023. Over 52,000 were killed in the Gaza Strip. people – most victims are civilians, women and children.
