The UN humanitarian worker killed yesterday by shots fired, the Palestinians forcefully denounce, from Israeli positions against a UN car headed for the European Hospital, between Khan Yunis and Rafah, is a foreign citizen. This is the first foreign member of the United Nations killed in Gaza since October 7. In firmly calling for an immediate investigation into the incident, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recalled that 190 UN employees were killed by Israeli bombing. Another person, apparently a woman, was injured. The two were traveling in a vehicle with the United Nations flag and identifying marks. Hamas reports two deaths. The victim was a staff member of the UN Department of Safety and Security (DSS). Tel Aviv yesterday said it was unclear whether Israeli soldiers fired the shots. The incident cannot fail to relaunch tensions between Israel and the international community following the killing, about two months ago, of members (6 foreigners and a Palestinian) of the NGO World Central Kitchen, hit by drone attacks on the coastal road of Gaza .
Israeli Defense Minister Gallant reiterated to the United States that the offensive in Gaza will go ahead as planned. And Herzi Halevi, the chief of staff, borrowed the myth of Sisyphus to announce that the troops under his orders will continue to attack everywhere, even in the areas of Gaza that Israel had “liberated from the presence of Hamas”. The huge boulder of Halevi, Hamas, continues to roll down like the one pushed by Sisyphus. “Now we are operating in Jabaliya again. Until there is a diplomatic process to develop a non-Hamas government in the Strip, we will still have to launch campaigns to dismantle Hamas’ infrastructure. It will be like Sisyphus’ task”, said the chief of staff quoted by the TV Channel 13. Therefore, fighting is taking place again in Jabaliya, in the north of Gaza, where the men of the Islamic movement and other Palestinian armed formations have not only recovered positions lost in the past months, but are putting up resistance to the Israeli forces that Halevi and the cabinet of they didn’t expect Benyamin Netanyahu’s war.
Despite the blows suffered, after more than seven months, Hamas units are still able to fire rockets towards army positions in Kerem Shalom and Israeli locations adjacent to the Strip. Chasing the slogan of “total destruction and removal of Hamas from Gaza”, Israel is sinking into the swamp of its possible Vietnam. Furthermore, Netanyahu cannot find a partner for his project to replace Hamas. Abu Mazen’s National Authority also backed out. Israeli public radio reported Israel has held talks with the head of Palestinian intelligence in the West Bank, Majdi Faraj, with the aim of handing over to the PNA the management of the Rafah crossing, between Gaza and Egypt, occupied by Israeli armored units. last week. Faraj would have flatly refused.
Hell fire has returned to Jabaliya as in the first three months of the Israeli offensive. Tel Aviv claims to have hit 120 targets in just a few hours. Videos shot by residents show adults and children seeking safety amid explosions and roars. Hamas and other Palestinian fighting groups intend to demonstrate that Israel will not succeed in its aim to reoccupy and maintain control of Gaza. For its part, Israel launches attacks with armored vehicles, drones and F-16s. The exchanges of volleys also continue in Zeitun and other suburbs of Gaza city, such as Sabra where an air raid killed Talal Abu Zarifa, the main leader of the Democratic Front (left) in the Strip, in his home. There were 57 Palestinians, civilians and fighters, killed between Sunday and yesterday morning. Israeli losses are also increasing. Since Friday, five soldiers have been killed and 68 others have been injured, some of them seriously.
To the south of the Strip, Israeli armored units proceed towards the center of Rafah. At least 360,000 civilians fled the city to escape the devastating attack. This is confirmed by the roars of the explosions, so loud that they can be heard up to about 30 kilometers away within the Sinai. «The sound was incessant until dawn, you could also hear the sound of houses collapsing, then the calm returned, while the two crossings of Rafah and Kerem Salem remain closed to the passage of aid for the population of Gaza and the wounded outgoing,” Egyptian journalists and witnesses reported. On the Egyptian side of Rafah, numerous aid trucks queue outside the terminal hoping to get through. Egypt, which in recent days has expressed its irritation in several ways at Netanyahu’s decision to attack Rafah – Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry speaking with US Secretary of State Blinken accused Israel of “threatening the security of the region” – adding that in the last few hours several planes have requested to carry out drops of basic necessities on some areas of Gaza but the Israeli commands have refused. The last parachute aid drop occurred on May 9.
