FC editorial staff
That the agreement for the truce was fragile and full of unknowns was clear from the beginning. Few believed that the negotiation of last January would lead to peace. And so it was. The Middle East is again on fire and Gaza is ripped in the nightmare of the war. The Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Hamas of not wanting to release the hostages still in their hands and to reject the proposals of the mediators for what was supposed to be the second phase of the fire (the first began on January 19 and lasted six weeks). The consequence was that last night the Israeli defense forces launched new, massive air raids in different areas of the strip, in Gaza City, in the north, in Deir Al-Balah, in the center, to Khan Youunis EA Rafah, in the southern part, with a budget of over 400 victims – including many children – and more than 560 injured, according to the data of the Ministry of Health of Gaza, managed by Hamas. A new, large military campaign launched by surprise that has been called “strength and sword”. In the bombings five high officials of the civil and political administration of Hamas have been killed: as demonstrated, as the local media underlined, which Israel does not make distinctions between the organization and political leaders of the organization. For his part, Hamas said that with this military campaign “the Government of Netanyahu puts the fate of the hostages at risk”.
With the new attack Israel aims to exert military pressure that exceeds the stall situation in negotiations on the release of the hostages. In addition, the Netanyahu government wants to send a clear and direct message to the mediators, and in particular to Egypt, on the fact that Israel opposes the idea that Hamas remains in the near future as a government or military body in the Gaza Strip. But The resumption of the military campaign was strongly criticized by the families of the hostages – which should be about sixty – and from those issued that in front of the Israeli parliament they gathered in protest and declared in a note that the affirmation that the resumption of attacks took place for the liberation of all the hostages is a lie, cbe the escalation of the clashes even more in danger of their loved ones in the hands of Hamas and asking to return to the cease.
The agreement for the truce provided that, after the first six -week phase, The two parts returned to the negotiation table for the second phase of the fire, With the possibility that Israelle resumed military operations if it had deemed it necessary. The negotiation was already skipped in early March, When Hamas did not accept the plan proposed by the correspondent of the United States Steve Witcoff e The Israeli government reacted by blocking the entry of humanitarian aid again into the Gaza Strip. A decision strongly criticized by the United Nations as well as by the mediators Egypt and Qatar, and which worsens the already very serious humanitarian crisis in which the battered Palestinian population of the Striscia pours.
(Photo Ansa: a building destroyed by the new Israeli air raids on Gaza)
