The Palestinian resistance is fighting fierce battles with the Israeli forces that have invaded the north and south of Gaza, claiming to have destroyed vehicles and killed Israeli soldiers.
This comes as the Israeli army commits another massacre, killing and injuring over 400 people, after bombing a residential building near the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia Camp, north of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Ministry of Health says the death toll has reached 8,525, including 3,542 children and 2,187 women, and about 22,000 wounded.
On Tuesday, Craig Mokhiber, the director of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York, resigned in protest at the UN’s handling of the situation in Gaza. He said, “The main UN bodies have succumbed to the US and the Israeli lobby.” He also said that “the European colonial project is in its final stage of destroying the remnants of Palestinian indigenous life,” and that “what is happening in Gaza is genocide.”
Also on Tuesday, Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), expressed his shock at the ongoing Israeli bombing of Gaza. He said, “The level of destruction is unprecedented, and the humanitarian tragedy unfolding before our eyes is unbearable.”
Aid trucks have been entering Gaza from Egypt slowly through the Rafah crossing, which has become the main entry point for aid since Israel imposed a total siege on Gaza after October 7, when the Palestinian resistance launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in response to Israel’s aggression against the Palestinians and Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Interior in Gaza said that “no fuel has entered Gaza since the start of the aggression,” adding: “We are facing a major disaster, and fuel must be brought in immediately to stop this Israeli crime.”
The ministry said that the Israeli forces have wiped out entire residential areas in the northwest of Gaza and that their machinery is located in the Karama area. It also said that their machinery is also on Salah al-Din Street and is trying to reach Al-Rashid Street, where they aim to cut off the north of Gaza from its south.
At the same time, the US says that it does not support calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and insists that they should be replaced by “temporary pauses” in hostilities to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Tuesday that “humanitarian truces should be considered in Gaza,” stressing that without a quick and sustained entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the conflict between Israel and Hamas will likely escalate.
Moreover, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly condemned the policy of collective punishment in the Gaza Strip and affirmed that Egypt “will not allow the liquidation of the Palestinian Cause.” He also stressed that Cairo is working hard to stop the aggression on Gaza and that the region will not have stability without the two-state solution. He said that his country opposes “targeting civilians by any side.”
Meanwhile, the Federation of Turkish Bars Association announced that it will file a complaint to the International Criminal Court about the war crimes committed by Israel in its 25-day war on Gaza.
The head of the association, Arinc Saqqan, told Anadolu Agency that Palestine is witnessing open war crimes and that the association has contacted international legal institutions to raise their voices about the situation in Gaza.
He said that they decided to submit a request to the International Criminal Court against all those who have authority, role, and responsibility for Israel’s war crimes during this period. He added that they are almost done with the preparations and that they will submit the application to the official authorities soon and follow up on it until the end.
On the ground, the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said that they killed an Israeli force in Beit Hanoun, while the Israeli army described the ongoing battles in several areas as fierce.
Hamas said that Al-Qassam and other resistance brigades are fighting “heroic” battles against tanks and military vehicles that entered north and south of Gaza City, causing losses on more than one front.
The movement said in a statement: “The ground incursions of the occupation army into various fronts of Gaza City, under heavy air and artillery cover, are a desperate attempt by the occupation war council to achieve a victory to cover up its military and security failure and restore the image of its strategic defeat on October 7th.”
“The occupation is sending its soldiers into Gaza, which was and will remain a graveyard for the invaders,” the statement said.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, announced that they targeted an Israeli infantry force and two concentrations of Israeli vehicles near the shipbuilding area, west of Gaza City, and in the Karama area, with dozens of mortar shells.
The Israeli TV Channel 14 reported that three Israeli settlers from one family were killed after a missile hit a house in the Netivot settlement. The Israeli army also announced the killing of two of its soldiers from the Golani Brigade and severely wounding two others in Gaza.
In Yemen, the spokesperson for the Ansar Allah Movement (Houthi), Yahya Saree, announced that they launched missiles and drones towards Eilat, an Israeli city on the Red Sea. Saree said that they will continue to target Israel with missiles and drones in support of the Palestinian resistance.
