From Gaza to Lebanon, the hope that Yahya Sinouar’s death will defuse the ongoing conflict with Israel through the removal of a central actor is, at this stage, still a futile hope. The disappearance of the Hamas leader in southern Gaza, announced Thursday 17 October by the Israeli army, even appears to have had the opposite effect. Violence is escalating on all sides, while the threat of an outbreak of hostilities with Iran is the latest threat « next September »based on the rhetoric that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu often uses to describe conflicts involving his country.
Israeli attacks continue, both in Gaza and Lebanon, targeting Hamas and Hezbollah. The latter, in turn, escalates attacks on Israel, for which an attack on Iran is being prepared.
In this worsening context, the Israeli government’s announcement late Sunday of its intention to explore a “new path” for a possible agreement with Hamas in the Gaza Strip still seems very vague, despite efforts by the United States to push for it. to reach an agreement that would allow an end to the fighting in Gaza. A prospect for which the Israeli army apparently was not prepared, quite the opposite. Israel believes that the current operation is putting pressure on the surviving Hamas leaders.
Despite the partial withdrawal of its ground forces in Gaza, diverted to the “northern front”, in Lebanon, for several weeks, operations in the enclave continue in the form of particularly violent air strikes, after a third week of ground maneuvers including the siege of the Jabaliya camp. Some humanitarian aid trucks were allowed to enter the northern part of Gaza, where nearly half a million people reside, cut off from limited supplies in previous months, since 1isOctober.
Hospitals under siege in Gaza
In Beit Lahya, houses and buildings were hit by bombs and collapsed on their occupants on Saturday, killing around eighty people, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health; a figure disputed by the Israeli army. “While tens of thousands of people, including six members of our team, are still trapped in the Jabaliya camp, under daily bombardment, the three largest hospitals in the northern part of Gaza were targeted by massive Israeli attacks. Nurses and patients are trapped inside, there is no possibility of evacuation.”, warned, in a press release, Anna Halford, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza.
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