Israeli army orders new evacuations in Gaza Strip

Israeli operations, which have caused a humanitarian and health disaster in the Gaza Strip, have left 40,988 dead, according to the latest report published on Monday, September 9 by the Hamas government’s Ministry of Health. According to the United Nations, the majority of the victims are women and children.

Israel has vowed to destroy the Palestinian Islamist movement following its unprecedented attack on October 7, 2023 in southern Israel that killed 1,205 people, most of them civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) count based on official Israeli data. Of the 251 people kidnapped that day, 97 remain in custody in Gaza, 33 of whom were declared dead by the army.

The Israeli army continues its offensive in the northern Gaza Strip without respite

The Israeli army on Monday ordered the evacuation of several areas in the northwestern Gaza Strip. A card asking for the evacuation of different neighborhoods. “Considered dangerous combat zones” It was posted on social media X by Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee. “Terrorist organizations are once again firing rockets at the State of Israel and carrying out terrorist acts from this area”he said in Arabic. However, the Israeli army announced in early January that “The dismantling of the military structure has been completed” Hamas in the north, before launching its ground operations in the center and south of the Palestinian territory.

Earlier today, the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian group in Gaza, claimed responsibility for rocket attacks on Israel, particularly on the city of Ashkelon. So far, no link has been established between the rocket fire and the evacuation order.

The Israeli military has repeatedly issued evacuation orders for military operations in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. Nearly the entire population of Gaza has been displaced at least once in nearly a year of war. Tens of thousands of people leave their homes or makeshift shelters in each evacuation, taking their belongings with them, sometimes without knowing where to go.

In the West Bank, Israeli operations worsen a “calamitous” situation, according to the UN

Speaking at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, denounced the escalation of violence in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. “In the West Bank, deadly and destructive operations, some of which are on a scale unprecedented in the past two decades, are worsening a dire situation already exacerbated by deadly settler violence.”he declared in his general address.

In recent weeks, Israel has stepped up large-scale military operations in the West Bank, where violence has flared since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, at least 662 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, 2023, while at least 23 Israelis, including soldiers and police officers, have been killed there in Palestinian attacks or during military operations, according to official Israeli data. On Sunday, three Israeli security guards were killed when a truck driver opened fire at the Israeli-controlled border crossing point between the West Bank and Jordan, according to the Israeli military.

Mr. Türk also stressed that “Nearly 10,000 Palestinians are detained in Israeli prisons or ad hoc military facilities”specifying that the actual number should be “probably higher”. ” A lot “ of these people are arbitrarily detained“and more than 50 people died” for inhuman conditions and mistreatment, he stressed. “Ending this war and preventing a large-scale regional conflict is a top and urgent priority”also supported the High Commissioner.

Tribute in West Bank to slain Turkish-American activist

Hundreds of people paid tribute on Monday in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, to a Turkish-American activist, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was shot dead on Friday during a demonstration against Jewish settlement in Beita, near Nablus. Hundreds of people, including local Palestinian figures, took part in a ceremony to pay tribute to the 26-year-old activist, a member of the pro-Palestine organization International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

Her family accused Israeli forces of killing her and called for a “independent investigation”Türkiye also accused Israel while the United States deplored one death. “tragic”The Israeli army admitted to having opened fire in the Beita area and said “to examine reports that a foreign national was killed”.

In Syria, 18 dead in Israeli strikes on military installations, Damascus says

At least 18 people were killed in a series of attacks on Monday. “Israeli attacks” in military sites in central Syria, according to Syrian authorities. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), based in the United Kingdom but with a wide network of sources in the war-torn country, reported 26 deaths.

OSDH Director Rami Abdel Rahmane stressed that this is “one of the most violent raids” carried out by the Israeli air force in Syria. He said the attacks were aimed at “Mesyaf Scientific Research Centre and surrounding sites”According to him, this center where Iranian experts work “develops weapons, including precision missiles and drones”Questioned by AFP in Jerusalem, the Israeli army indicated “Do not comment on information from foreign media”.

Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of attacks against President Bashar al-Assad’s army and the pro-Iranian groups that support him. Israeli raids in Syria intensified following the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, sparked by the Palestinian movement’s attack on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023. In a statement, the Syrian Foreign Ministry strongly denounced the attacks it attributed to Israel, accusing it of trying to “cause further escalation in the region”In Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani condemned this. “criminal attack” which he attributed to Israel.