Israel has sprayed the high fire in Gaza in the early hours of Tuesday – when he was about to turn two months – with a wide wave of bombing by surprise that has caused more than 300 dead, according to the Ministry of Health of the Hamas Government. Deir Al Balah, Al Mawasi (the area that Israel declared “humanitarian” and the one that urged to go to the forced displaced people), Gaza City, Jan Yunis, Rafah … The Gazati have realized dozens of air attacks and artillery in different parts of the strip in just two hours, while they slept and in the middle of the Sacred Muslim month of Ramadan.
“From now on, Israel will act against Hamas with growing military force,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamín Netanyahu, justifying the decision in the “repeated rejection” of the Islamist organization to renounce what they agreed in January and release more Israeli hostages without guarantees that he will lead to the end of the war. The Israeli army advances that the operation “will continue whatever is necessary” and will go “beyond air bombings.”
Babies and children
The images disseminated by local journalists (Israel prevents free admission to the press from the beginning of the war) show corpses of babies and children in the hospital, dozens of lifeless bodies in the morgues, fires caused by the bombings and screams of the population when seeing the sky illuminate in the dark of the early morning. The bodies accumulate in the Jan Yunis hospital, in the south, where most of the dead have occurred, while from the speakers in the minetes the population is urged to practice at home the first prayer of the day, because it is too dangerous to try to reach the mosques.
The rhythm and lethality of the attacks in this morning even exceeds the daily average of the last months of war. “Netanyahu and his extremist government are making the decision to revoke the high fire agreement, exposing the prisoners [en referencia a los rehenes] In Gaza to an unknown destiny, ”Hamas said in a statement.
Despite the dimension of the bombings, the Israeli prime minister has not wanted to formally give the fire, which crossed a Impasse For two weeks, when the first phase concluded without going to the second, precisely because he refused to negotiate the transition from one to another. The Israeli executive since then maintains the entry of humanitarian aid (food, water and medicines) and, since last week, also electricity for the water desalination plant. It had been increasing the frequency and lethality of air attacks for days, with almost 20 dead in the 48 hours prior to the mass wave of the morning, while the negotiating teams moved to Egypt and Qatar, two of the mediating countries.
They are the “energetic measures” against Hamas ordered to the Armed Forces by Netanyahu and their Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, as defined by the office of the first in a statement. Netanyahu says that the Islamist movement has “rejected all the proposals” made by Donald Trump’s envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, “and the mediators.” It is not what is leaked from the negotiations, first in Doha and until this Monday in Cairo.
Israel and the US (on paper, one of the three guarantors of the truce) insisted rather on extending the first phase of the high fire, so that Hamas agreed to free the 59 hostages he still has in Gaza. That is, he lost his main trick without implying the end of the invasion. The Islamist movement demanded, however, guarantees and agreed to extend the first phase, but only for a small number of hostages and if the negotiation of the second phase immediately began.
After the wave of bombing, the Israeli army has changed this morning the guidelines for residents in the towns near Gaza, something that only does when it provides for an imminent exchange of fire. The activity has gone from full to limited, which implies, among other things, the cancellation of school classes.
The White House, “Accessed” before
The White House has defended the attack and pointed out that Israel “consulted” him before throwing it. “As President Trump has made clear, Hamas, Los Hutíes, Iran – all those who seek to terrorize not only Israel, but also to the United States – will pay a price and the chaos will be unleashed,” said his spokesman, Karoline Leavitt, in a television interview. All of them, he added, “should take very seriously” to the American president “when he says he is not afraid to defend citizens who fulfill the law, to the United States and our friend and ally Israel.”
The Israeli decision arrives amid Trump’s threats to Iran (a war that Netanyahu wants and for which he needs the support and weapons of his great ally) and after three days of US bombardments in Yemen against the hutis, Tehran allies. They have already left half a hundred dead (according to the last count of the health authorities of the Hutí Government) and suppose the largest military operation in the country in the Middle East since Trump’s return to the White House, in January.
It is the result of an escalation originated in Netanyahu’s decision to block humanitarian aid to Gaza, in early March. The Hutis then gave him four days to reverse it, in solidarity with his “brothers in Gaza” and last week, after being fulfilled, they announced the resumption of attacks against Israeli ships in the strategic Red Sea that had paralyzed since the signing of Alto El Fuego.
The last episode took place on Monday, when Trump has directly threatened Iran for the attacks that the hutis launch, precisely one of his most dressed allies. “From now on, each shot made by the hutis will be considered as a shot of the weapons and leadership of Iran.
