A school hosting displaced people in a neighborhood south of Jabalya was hit. For Borrell (EU) it is necessary to stop the incursions on Rafah and keep the crossing open. Italy supports the birth of a Palestinian state that coexists in peace with Israel
Alessandro Guarasci – Vatican City
Israel continues its bombing of the Gaza Strip. According to the Ministry of Health, at least 35,900 Palestinians have died since the war broke out. The number of injured is also significant: 80,420 Palestinians. In the last 24 hours alone, 46 people were killed and another 130 were injured, local sources report.
A school in Gaza hit
In particular, at least 10 people died and 17 were injured in Israeli attacks in the as-Saftawi neighborhood in northern Gaza. Al Jazeera and the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported this, citing medical sources. Among the targets targeted was a school that housed displaced people in the neighborhood just south of Jabalya.
EU: Israel stops military operations
The raids despite the International Court of Justice in The Hague ordering Israel to “immediately halt” its military offensive. The EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell also spoke on the issue, according to which it is necessary to take note of the order of the International Court of Justice to Israel in the lawsuit brought by South Africa to immediately stop the military offensive in the Rafah governorate; keep the Rafah crossing open for humanitarian assistance; ensure access to any investigative body mandated by the United Nations to investigate allegations of genocide; submit to the Court a report on all measures taken to implement this order”.
Hostage talks next week
Possible news, however, on the hostage front. “CIA Director Bill Burns agreed, in a meeting with the director of the Mossad and the Prime Minister of Qatar, to resume hostage talks in Gaza next week.” Axios journalist Barak Ravid writes this on At the end of the meeting, “it was decided that by next week the negotiations will resume on the basis of new proposals, led by Egyptian and Qatari mediators with the active involvement of the US”.
Italy-PNA meeting in Rome
Meanwhile, today in Rome, a meeting between Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Mohammed Mustaf. Tajani stated that Italy has “reaffirmed the Italian government’s support for the Palestinian National Authority for the construction of a Palestinian state that can coexist in peace with Israel in the coming years”, because “the ‘two peoples two states’ solution that’s our goal.”
