The military situation
In the event of an explosion Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip At least 200 people were killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. There is currently no reliable information about the cause of the explosion. Initial information from the Ministry of Health in Gaza that a Israeli airstrike who was responsible for the explosion has not yet been confirmed. Israel speaks of one misdirected Hamas rocket as a possible cause.
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip also have on Tuesday Rockets hit several cities in Israel fired. Both in south of the country as well as in the center near the coastal town Tel Aviv A missile alarm was triggered, the army announced. Initially there were no reports of injuries.
The Israeli military attacks from the air further Hamas infrastructure and looks for the hiding places of their leaders. The invasion of the Israeli military into the Gaza Strip to destroy the radical Islamic militia delayed Meanwhile. Arye Sharuz Shalicar, one of the Israeli military spokesmen, explained on Sunday in the ARD program “Anne Will” that more Palestinian civilians should reach the south of the Gaza Stripso that they would not be in danger during a ground offensive in the north of the coastal strip.
The Israeli military had more than a million Palestinians in the north of the coastal strip Evacuation to the south asked.
Also in the North led the Israeli army carried out attacks. You should attacks the pro-Iranian militia Hezbollah in Lebanon respond, as the military leadership announced. That’s how it happened on Tuesday Israeli border town of Metulla According to military information, it was attacked from Lebanon with an anti-tank missile. The army said two soldiers and one civilian were injured. The Hezbollah militia confirmed an attack on Israeli positions.
Israel responds decisively to any attack on its territory, an army spokesman said. The Israeli army be able to to deal with two or more fronts. The main target is currently the Gaza Strip. But one should reserve strength for possible further conflicts.
Israel is considering it, according to an army spokesman Alternatives to a ground offensive. The country is preparing for “the next stages of the war” in the Gaza Strip against the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas that rules there. “Everyone is talking about a ground offensive, but it could be something else,” said army spokesman Richard Hecht on Tuesday.
Refugees and victims
In Israel are at least, according to the latest information from the local Ministry of Health 1400 people killed and around 4,000 were injured. But Israel’s air strikes in response to the Hamas massacres a week ago have also caused severe devastation and claimed victims. According to the World Health Organization (WHO). in the Gaza Strip so far around 2800 people lost their lives. 11,000 other people were injured.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health on October 17th Around 3,200 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip. This is by far the largest number of deaths in all of Israel’s previous conflicts with Hamas, which violently seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007.
There were also around 11,000 injuries there. In the West Bank There were 61 deaths and 1,250 injuries during the period.
In the Gaza Strip Around 2.3 million Palestinians live in the region one of the most densely populated places in the world. Due to fear of Israel’s expected ground offensive and because the state has cut off the supply of water, food and fuel to the north of the coastal strip, almost the Half of the civilian population is now estimated by the UN Emergency Relief Office (OCHA). on the run. Around a million people have left their homes.
According to the Israeli army, 600,000 people have moved to the south of the coastal strip. Several hundred thousand Palestinians be have not yet responded to the Israeli military’s calls for evacuation.
Fearing Israel’s expected ground offensive, hundreds of thousands of people are seeking shelter in the south of the hermetically sealed coastal strip. About a million people According to UN emergency aid coordinator Martin Griffiths, he fled from the northern Gaza Strip to the south ahead of the expected Israeli ground offensive.
Helpers speak of an emerging situation humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. “When people arrive in the south, nothing is prepared for them. They only have what they brought with them», explained Marc Joly, Head of Communications at Doctors Without Borders, on Sunday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced at the same time that the fuel reserves of all hospitals in the Gaza Strip should only last for around 24 hours. At least the water supply should be restored in the south of the Gaza Strip, as Israel confirmed.
Legend:
A long queue of trucks waits for entry near Al-Arish on the Sinai Peninsula, around 70 kilometers from the Egyptian-Israeli border crossing.
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For most people in the Gaza Strip there is currently no way to leave the area. One and only Border crossing from the Gaza Strip to Egypt is still closed – only people with foreign nationality should be allowed to pass. The latter was reported by the Italian news agency Ansa on Monday, citing an official at the Palestinian embassy in Washington.
Noisy helpers stand 2,000 tons of relief supplies off Rafah for deliveries to those sealed off by Israel Gaza Strip ready. Helpers hope for one Opening of the Egyptian border crossing. So far I have Israeli government but did not take a position that would allow the border crossing into Gaza to be opened.
Israel and Egypt have reportedly so far not on it can agreeas the Aid deliveries to Gaza could be checked to Weapons smuggling to prevent.
Diplomacy and support
The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Israel assured Germany’s full solidarity during his visit to Tel Aviv. “The security of Israel and its citizens is German reasons of state,” he said on Tuesday after a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Scholz warned other countries not to interfere in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The Federal Government is doing everything in its power to ensure that this Conflict does not escalate.
US President Joe Biden becomes on Wednesday (local time) for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travel to Israel. This was announced by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The Meeting in Jordan with Biden and several representatives of the Arab world was canceled. It will only take place when there is an agreement to end the war and stop “these massacres,” Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi told the Jordanian TV channel Al-Mamlaka.
In the UN Security Council is with only 5 out of 15 possible votes Russian draft resolution for a “humanitarian ceasefire” and the release of the Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip failed. Although the draft condemned violence against civilians and all acts of terrorism, it did not explicitly condemn the terrorist militia Hamas.
The USA has on Tuesday about 2000 soldiers in increased operational readiness offset. The US Department of Defense said no decision had yet been made as to whether they would be sent. The aircraft carrier Gerald R.
Ford – shortly before the end of his six-month deployment in the Europe and Middle East region – will remain on duty longer.
On Sunday, US President Joe Biden said in a television interview with “60 Minutes” that sending US troops was not necessary. But it would be a mistake if Israel occupied the Gaza Stripn would. While he believes that Hamas must be completely eliminated, there must also be a path to the formation of a Palestinian state. Biden expressed confidence that Israel would abide by the rules of war.