The United States Secretary of State continues his tour of the region, visiting Doha (Qatar) this Tuesday to reach a ceasefire.
And israeli airstrike has killed at least seven people who were walking down a busy street in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza. More than 20 people were seriously injured.
This is the third offensive this Tuesday. Early in the day there was one against a school converted into a shelter in Gaza City, at least ten people died; and another against the Bureij refugee camp, where A mother and five children died.
“I don’t know where to go for shelter”
“They have attacked our houses. They attacked mosques. They attacked streets. They have attacked houses. “I don’t know where to go to take shelter with the little children,” he said. Um Khalil Abu Agwaa displaced palestinian woman who took refuge in the school.
The attacks come while the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahumet with groups of relatives of fallen soldiers and hostages in Gaza. During the meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said that Israel is “closer to victory.”
“At the same time, we are doing an effort to return the hostagesin conditions that allow release the maximum number of hostages in the first phase of the agreement,” he said.
“I say it clearly: it is a goal that I have set for myself. But the other thing is preserve our strategic security assets in the face of great internal and external pressures, and that is what we maintain,” Netanyahu assured the families.
Netanyahu’s meeting with the families came as the Israeli Army claimed to have recovered the bodies of six hostages in a nighttime operation in Gaza, again causing pain for many Israelis who They had been pressuring Netanyahu for some time so that he would agree to a halt fire that would allow the remaining hostages to return home.
Las Israeli Defense Forces identified the victims as Yagov Buchstab, Alexander Dancig, Avraham Monder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Poplowel and Haim Peri, but they did not comment on how or when the hostages might have died.
Meanwhile, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinkenhas arrived in Doha, capital of Qatar, where it was received by the American ambassadorTimmy Davis, and several Qatari officials.
His arrival in the Middle Eastern country comes after their meetings in Egyptwhere he kept new ceasefire talks with mediators. He has also visited Israelwhere he met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and stated that he had accepted an American proposal to bridge the gap between Israel and Hamas.
Hamasfor its part, stated in a statement that The latest proposal represents a “reverse” regarding what it had previously agreed to, and has accused the United States of consenting to what it has described as “new conditions” on the part of Israel.
