Israel intensifies siege with gaza with wave of massacres and more than 100 dead

The Gaza Strip has lived this week one of the most lethal offensives since the collapse of ceasefire in March. According to Palestinian health officials, at least 106 people were killed in Israeli attacks between Tuesday (14) and Thursday (16), including 22 children. The number of victims may be even higher, according to the Red Crescent.

The Israeli forces bombarded densely populated areas in Khan Youis, Jabalia and City of Gaza. In Jabalia, dozens of civilians died after missiles hit homes at dawn. An attack also hit a excavator near the European hospital, killing and injuring rescuers trying to access the rubble.

The Ministry of Health of Gaza reported that rescue teams cannot reach several of the victims, buried in zones under constant air fire.

According to Al Jazeera, civilians were hit while sleeping. “Whole families disappeared,” reported a paramedic. The UN stated that the military operation openly violates international humanitarian law.

Israel surrounds Rafah and transforms civil zone into military occupation ring

The siege of the city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, advances with speed. Satellite images analyzed by New York Times They show that Israel has already destroyed whole neighborhoods and installed a new military infrastructure network: paved roads, control posts, trenches and fortifications.

The Israeli government said it intends to “replicate Rafah’s model” throughout Gaza: total physical control of the territory after systematic demolition of urban areas. Since the beginning of the operation, schools, campaign hospitals, mosques and even agricultural areas have been destroyed.

The city housed more than one million internal displaced people. With the new siege, thousands of Palestinians try to escape again, not knowing where to go. The UN warned of the imminence of an irreversible humanitarian catastrophe. Food, medicine and fuel entry has been fully blocked since March 2.

Trump proposes “freedom zone” in Gaza and excludes Israel from diplomatic turn

Former President Donald Trump proposed transforming Gaza into a “zone of freedom” under US administration. The statement was made during a visit to Saudi Arabia, as part of a diplomatic turnover that also included Qatar and the United Arab Emirates – but no Israel.

Trump stated that the US should “take over the Gaza Strip” to “ensure a better future for civilians.” The proposal was poorly received in Tel Aviv. Israeli sources told New York Times that Netanyahu feels “scanted” and is afraid of losing the protagonism in the region.

Even with the liberation of the last Live American hostage in Gaza, there is no concrete advance for a new ceasefire. The conversations are looked at the Qatar, and the Israeli siege intensifies. The Palestinian people are still besieged – no refuge, no bread, no respite.

Protests and dissent spread through governments and civil society

The new phase of the war in Gaza caused a wave of criticism from Western governments and acts of civil dissent. Canada’s new chancellor Anita Anand accused Israel of using hunger as a “political tool.” “More than 50,000 people died. Using food as a weapon is unacceptable,” he said.

In Europe, the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, stated that the situation in Gaza is “dramatic and unjustifiable.” French President Emmanuel Macron went further: he called Israeli politics “shameful.” Netanyahu reacted by accusing Macron of being “next to Hamas.”

In Norway, the National Sovereign Fund announced the divestment of the Israeli company Paz Energy, which supplies posts in illegal settlements. A few days earlier, the LO union approved a total economic boycott of Israel. The Norwegian government has resisted the measure, but admits the increasing pressure.

In the United States, Ben & Jerry’s co -founder Ben Cohen was arrested after protesting in the Senate against military financing to Israel. “Congress pays to bombard children in Gaza and removes Medicaid from poor children in the US,” he said. The demonstration was brief, but drew attention to the growing dissent in liberal sectors of US society.

Manifestations in solidarity with Palestine are being summoned in various cities of the world, including São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Paris, London and Montreal. Popular movements charge the immediate end of the Israeli offensive and the resumption of negotiations under international mediation.