Four days of ground offensive in a war that Israel announces "long" have been enough for the Middle East to approach the overflow of the conflict due to the impossibility of minimizing civilian casualties and at the same time beheading Hamas while preserving the maximum number of lives of Israeli soldiers.
This Tuesday, Israel bombed the largest refugee camp in Gaza, Jabaliya, with 116,000 residents, with the justification of killing a Hamas commander, an objective achieved at the price of at least 145 dead and dozens injured, according to hospital sources in Gaza. At least 90 deceased were taken to the Indonesian hospital in the strip and another 55 were transferred to the Kamal Adwan center, both in the north of the enclave.
The bombing of the Jabaliya camp exemplifies the drama of this poisoned war and calls into question whether regional stability can be maintained at this pace, with all actions “broadcast” live and the eyes of the world focused on the horrors of Gaza.
The Israeli Defense Forces openly took the action and blamed the dead on Hamas, for establishing its commands in areas populated by civilians whom they use as “human shields.”
Hamas has denied that the soldier was even in the refugee camp. The truth is that the bomb destroyed 23 buildings and dozens of lifeless bodies lined the corridors of the Indonesian hospital while a large number of injured people waited to be operated on in precarious conditions, like everything in this mousetrap.
Israel insists that Gazans leave the north and move to the southern half of the strip, where there have been no attacks. Eight hundred thousand Palestinians have followed the advice and moved to the south, but there remain almost a million people who do not want or cannot leave everything, especially when conditions in the south are poor and no one is guaranteed survival.
Israel recognized this Tuesday for the first time casualties in the land war – two soldiers dead – and described the fighting as “ferocious”, while the population of Gaza continues to report the dead in bulk – 8,485, according to Hamas – and a remarkable capacity for survival. .
The war is beginning to manifest itself in its full extent, and with it, the impossibility of combining the safeguarding of the civilian population and the beheading of Hamas, which if it prepared for two years the attacks on defenseless civilians on October 7, has also had two years to fortify the strip.
Unlike Yasir Arafat and the PLO in 1982 – when he fled to Tunisia with all his commanders and fedayeen to prevent Lebanon from being devastated – Hamas has so far shown no signs of wanting to spare Palestinian civilians the horrors of war and privilege of martyrdom that, foreseeably and inevitably, was going to be provoked by the massacres of October 7, in which 1,400 Israelis lost their lives, precisely those who were most in favor of coexistence with the Palestinians being possible, hence why they lived in the kibbutzim. closer to Gaza. Bad times for Middle Eastern moderates.
The Israel Defense Forces transmitted in their statements that the resistance encountered is considerable, with fighting in the feared tunnels, more than 500 kilometers long and up to eighty meters deep. And they were attacked “with anti-tank missiles,” one of the weapons that has most energized the dynamic military industry in recent years. Diplomatic sources estimated that the Israeli casualties were higher, but that they will be disseminated "in dribs and drabs" to prepare the population for a "long and hard" fight.
Humanitarian organizations and the United Nations are scrambling to stop the war and stop the attacks, but the Prime Minister of Israel, Beniamin Netanyahu, made it very clear the night before last that such a truce will not exist because it would give an advantage to Hamas, the only ones responsible - according to Israel – that its bombs reach the civilian population.
One of the few “positive” notes in the panorama of suffering was the announcement that Egypt will today accept the entry into its territory of 81 “seriously wounded” and, perhaps, Palestinians with dual nationality. Egypt, like Jordan, has not changed one millimeter in its refusal to welcome Palestinians, no matter how agonizing their life may be in these times of war, a refusal that many Israelis highlight when it comes to distributing responsibilities and certificates of goodness.
Likewise, 66 trucks with humanitarian aid entered through the Rafah border crossing, according to the White House, which is trying to modulate a war and the Israeli warrior ardor, aware of the risks of a regional overflow and the fear of the outbreak of attacks anywhere. part of the world. Egypt was one of the first countries to condemn this Tuesday the carnage at the Jabaliya refugee camp, which demonstrates “the inhuman treatment” that Israel inflicts on all Palestinians.
Already before the bombing, Iran's Foreign Minister, Hosein Amir Abdolahian, warned that "it is normal that resistance groups and movements do not remain silent in the face of the crimes of the Israelis," alluding to Hizbullah, the Shiite militia that It depends on Tehran and is felt on Israel's border with Lebanon. The Persian minister met this Tuesday in Doha, the capital of Qatar, with the political leader of Hamas, Ismael Haniye, for the second time since the war began. A seasoned regional negotiator, on condition of anonymity, told us this Tuesday in Tel Aviv that “the tragedy is that neither Hamas nor Israel are clear about the way out. The war depends on and is in the hands of the United States and Iran.”
Another focus of alarm is the border with Syria, “at the most dangerous point in a long time,” according to the United Nations representative. And if that were not enough, the pro-Iranian Houthi militias launched several missiles this Tuesday from their fiefdom in Yemen, intercepted over the coastal city of Eilat, an Israeli tourist spot in the waters of the Red Sea that, like everything here, has known days more. optimistic.
