Photo: Eyad Baba Agence France-Presse A young injured Palestinian woman is treated at al-Awda Hospital in Nousseirat.
France Media Agency in the Gaza Strip
Posted at 1:23 p.m.
- Middle East
The Israeli Parliament adopted a resolution against the creation of a Palestinian state, sparking international criticism on Thursday, as Israel relentlessly strikes the Gaza Strip despite calls for a ceasefire.< /p>
In the tenth month of war in the Palestinian territory, triggered on October 7 by the unprecedented attack by Hamas against Israel, the symbolic resolution adopted by the Knesset, “s firmly opposes the creation of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan”, that is to say in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, or in the Gaza Strip.
“The creation of a Palestinian state in the heart of the land of Israel will constitute an existential danger for the State of Israel,” stipulates the resolution passed before a visit to Washington by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who will speak on the 24 July before Congress.
In the Gaza Strip, the Hamas Ministry of Health reported at least 37 deaths, more than half of them women and children, in airstrikes against the camps of Nousseirat and Al-Bureij, in the central Gaza Strip, as well as Khan Younes and Rafah, in the south, and Jabalia, in the north.
“We watch our children die and we wake up and sleep in fear,” laments a Palestinian woman in the rubble of her home, who tells AFP she has lost her daughter, her grandchildren and his son-in-law in a strike in the Deir-Al-Balah sector (center).
The army claimed to have “eliminated” the commander of the naval forces of Islamic Jihad, in Gaza City, and another fighter from this armed group allied to Hamas, having “participated in the massacre” of October 7. She said she had “eliminated several terrorists” in Rafah.
“Bloodbath”
< p>The Hamas attack in southern Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data.
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The Israeli offensive launched in response to Gaza has so far left 38,848 dead, mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health of the Hamas-led Gaza government.
< p>“It is time to increase the pressure” on Hamas, Netanyahu said Tuesday, as he wants to continue the war until the destruction of the Islamist movement, which has been in power in Gaza since 2007 and is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel, and the release of all the hostages.
Benjamin Netanyahu is facing strong criticism in his country for the lack of an agreement allowing the release of the hostages. On Wednesday, hundreds of relatives of hostages demonstrated again in Tel Aviv.
He is also under pressure from his far-right allies. In a video filmed at the Esplanade of the Mosques in Jerusalem, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir warned against “a deal of capitulation.”
“The bloodbath in Gaza must stop immediately,” declared the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, calling for “an immediate and lasting ceasefire” and “the release of Israeli hostages.”
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“Consternation”
France expressed its “consternation” after the Knesset vote, “in contradiction with the resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council.” Egypt and Jordan condemned the vote.
The international community favors a two-state solution, Palestinian and Israeli, for a settlement of the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The war has plunged the territory Palestinian in a humanitarian and health disaster, with more than half of its 2.4 million inhabitants displaced and lacking everything.
Humanitarian organizations continue to denounce the multiplication of strikes and the obstacles placed by Israel on humanitarian deliveries.
“The very large number of victims […] pushed the establishments to the breaking point” health in southern Gaza, underlined the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The NGO Oxfam denounced “Israel’s use of water as a weapon of war.” “Israel's cutting off access to water, systematic destruction of facilities and deliberate obstruction of access to aid have reduced the amount of water available in Gaza by 94%, to 4.74 liters per day per person, less than a third of the minimum quantity recommended in emergency situations. »
Amnesty International urged Israel to stop placing Palestinians in Gaza “incommunicado” and subjecting them to “widespread torture” in its jails. The Israeli army “categorically rejects allegations of systematic mistreatment of detainees.”