The Israeli war cabinet has unanimously decided to continue operation in Rafah in southern Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas on the issue of release of hostages, the government’s press office said on Monday.
Members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet want to force Palestinians out of their historic lands once and for all. Observers worry the US president, a self-proclaimed “Zionist,” is accommodating their plans.
Gomaa suggested that the Israeli government is attempting to “suppress any coverage of what they are doing in Gaza now” as Israel likely plans to carry out their attack on the city of Rafah.
Russia calls for an independent international investigation to bring to justice the perpetrators in relation to the reported mass graves in the Gaza Strip, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia said.
Israel has, for the first time since the beginning of the conflict in the Gaza Strip, opened the Erez border crossing, which is the only one in the north of the enclave, as part of the efforts to increase the deliveries of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.