Israel plans to « take control » from Gaza, partial lifting of the blockade on humanitarian aid, deadly strikes … News from the conflict in the Middle East this Monday, May 19-Liberation
The editorial staff of Release You summarize the main news of the day on the conflict at the Middle East.
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel was going « Take control of all » The Gaza Strip, where the army has intensified its earthly offensive since the day before. « The fights are intense and we progress »he said. The Hebrew state resumed its military operations on Gaza on March 18, breaking a two -month truce, and unveiled in early May a plan providing for the « conquest » de Gaza and the displacement of most of its 2.4 million inhabitants to the extreme south of the territory.
Put under international pressure, Israel raised partially on Sunday The blockade on Gaza and thus authorizes a limited recovery of humanitarian aid. A « Base of food » could be transported to the territory, the office of the Israeli Prime Minister announced on Sunday in a statement.
« We must not let the population sink in famineneither for practical reasons, nor for diplomatic reasons ”, Added Benyamin Netanyahu this Monday morning. A turnaround which he explains by the fact that « friends » of Israel told him that they could no longer support the continuation of the war if « Mass famine images » in the Palestinian territory were disseminated. The entry of humanitarian aid into the devastated enclave ² is blocked for two months.
Intense Israeli strikes killed 22 people this Monday in The Gaza Strip. Local civil defense has also reported « Violent air strikes in Khan Younès, especially around the Nasser hospital », in the south of the territory. In the north of the Gaza Stripat least two people died in a drone strike on a tent housing displaced people in the courtyard of the Indonesian hospital, according to the first aid organization. Tsahal accuses Hamas of using civil buildings, such as hospitals, for military purposes, which the Islamist movement denies.
