Photo: Agence France-Presse A Palestinian man walks through the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli strike, Thursday, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
Published at 10:22
Hospitals in the Gaza Strip will shut down or reduce their activities within 48 hours due to a lack of fuel, the Hamas Health Ministry warned on Friday in the Palestinian territory hit by a serious humanitarian crisis and where the Israeli army has carried out new bombardments.
International reactions continue to multiply following the issue on Thursday by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the conflict triggered in Gaza by the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, 2023 on Israeli soil.
The Hamas Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip, where the Islamist movement came to power in 2007, issued Friday “an urgent warning that all hospitals in the Gaza Strip will cease to function or reduce their services within 48 hours due to the obstruction of the entry of fuel” by Israel into the small besieged territory.
The Civil Defense said for its part that it had recovered eight bodies and “many wounded” in a house targeted by an Israeli night strike in the neighborhood of Shujaiya, in the east of Gaza City. She also reported four other bodies recovered and “several wounded” after another nighttime strike south of the city.
Photo: Omar Al-Qattaa Agence France-Presse Palestinians crowd around a trailer containing the bodies of several victims of Israeli bombings.
“I lost my entire family, 10 people, and I'm the only one left,” Belal says, in a room at Al-Ahli Arab hospital where victims were taken. “There were […] innocent children. What have they done wrong ?,” another man told AFP, next to an unconscious boy in a hospital bed.
The Israeli army and the Shin Bet (domestic intelligence) said in a statement that they had “eliminated five Hamas terrorists” during a raid in the Beit Lahia area in the north of the Gaza Strip on the night of Wednesday to Thursday.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000The raid left dozens dead and missing, according to Palestinian medical sources.
According to the statement from the army and the Shin Bet, two of the men killed were responsible for “murders and kidnappings” on the day of the attack on October 7, 2023.
Saying that it wanted to prevent Hamas fighters from rebuilding their forces in the area, the Israeli army launched a new major offensive in early October on the northern Gaza Strip, which has already left more than a thousand dead, according to the Gaza Strip’s health ministry.
The October 7 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official data, including hostages killed or killed in captivity.
On that day, 251 people were kidnapped, 97 of whom remain hostages in Gaza, 34 of whom were declared dead by the army.
The air and then ground offensive launched in Gaza in retaliation by Israel has left at least 44,056 dead, the majority of them civilians, according to data from the Hamas Health Ministry, deemed reliable by the UN.
After more than a year of conflict, the ICC provoked the fury of Israel by issuing unprecedented arrest warrants on Thursday against Messrs. Netanyahu and Gallant.
“No scandalous anti-Israeli decision will prevent us […] from continuing to defend our country in any way,” Benjamin Netanyahu assured Thursday evening. Yoav Gallant saw “a dangerous precedent” that “encourages terrorism.”
On Friday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a staunch supporter of the Israeli leader, announced Friday that he would invite Mr. Netanyahu to Hungary, in “defiance.” For its part, France “takes note” of the ICC arrest warrants and remains “faithful to its long-standing commitment to supporting international justice,” said a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Iran, for its part, saw the ICC decision as “the political death of the Zionist regime,” while China called on the court to take an “objective and fair position.” France said it took note of the decision.
Hamas welcomed an “important step toward justice,” without mentioning the arrest warrant announced simultaneously by the ICC against the head of the movement's armed wing. Israel announced this summer that it had killed Mohammed Deif, considered one of its masterminds of the October 7 attack, but Hamas has not confirmed his death.
The Israeli army also launched a campaign of massive strikes in Lebanon on September 23 against the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, which had opened a front to support Hamas after October 7.
New bombings rocked the suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of the Islamist movement, on Friday after an Israeli call for evacuations. One of them targeted a building in the Shayah neighborhood.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported the deaths of nearly 230 health workers in Lebanon since October 2023, most of them since last September.
Israel says it wants to push Hezbollah away to allow the return of some 60,000 residents of the north of the country displaced by exchanges of fire with the Lebanese Islamist movement. In Lebanon, tens of thousands of residents have also been displaced.
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