Egypt tears up the Israeli promise to postpone the attack on Rafah to give the Islamic movement time to respond to the truce proposal. Meanwhile, Israeli military forces have launched new air attacks in the Strip and Lebanon. The pro-Palestine demonstrations in universities in the United States and Europe do not subside
Paola Simonetti – Vatican City
Hamas will have one week to finalize the agreement on a truce. Then the ground attack on Rafah will begin. Israel sets its rules, through the mediation of Egypt, but against the United States, according to which the announced military operation would cause unacceptable damage to the population. Hamas, which accuses the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of multiplying his statements to the media with the aim of sabotaging efforts to obtain a truce, has announced that it will be present in the next few hours, in a positive spirit, at the negotiating table in Cairo, specifying however that will not respond to the latest proposed hostage deal in exchange for truce with Israel, but will reiterate its call to end the war. Meanwhile, Israel does not let go of its military grip on Gaza: several bombings were carried out on the Strip during the night. The front with Lebanon also remains incandescent: a new Israeli military attack has been launched in the south of the country against bases of the Shiite organization Hezbollah. The operation resulted in several civilian casualties.
The mobilization of universities around the world
A conflict in the Middle East that is continuing to inflame US and European universities, where students are demonstrating in favor of Palestine: Columbia University is rethinking its graduation ceremonies for security reasons, while at Princeton some students are on hunger strike. Meanwhile, the New York University camp has been cleared out at the request of the university itself. In Paris the police intervened in Sciences Po to evacuate several dozen pro-Palestinian young people
Qatar’s position on Hamas
He would be ready to accept the US request for the expulsion from Doha of the Hamas leadership, Qatar, one of the mediators in the negotiation for the truce on Gaza. According to the Washington Post, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, last month had delivered the request to “expel” the leaders of the Islamic group from the country if he continued to refuse the ceasefire agreement in the Strip. According to the US newspaper, Qatar had been waiting for the US request for months.
