Israeli-Palestinian conflict
June 20, 2024
07:34
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said no part of Israel would be spared in the event of all-out war. And he threatened Western countries that supported Netanyahu in the war effort. Meanwhile, the new UN alarm: “There is a lack of food, water and milk for children in Gaza”.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
“We are not prepared for total war, but if there were to be we will attack Israel everywhere.” It is the summary of the latest speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, reported by the Beirut media. “We are prepared for the worst scenario and Israel knows it. The Israeli enemy already knows what awaits him”, continued Nasrallah, underlining that “more than 100 thousand fighters” are ready to mobilise.
“Our struggle is a support front” he says, but “we have clear objectives and the ability to reach targets that will shake the foundations”, added Nasrallah, according to whom if Netanyahu were to unleash “a total war” with Lebanon, “the situation in the Mediterranean will change completely” and no part of Israel will be spared by the Lebanese Shiite armed group. And he reiterated: “Let the enemy know once again that if open war is declared on Lebanon, we will wage it without limits.”
Hezbollah threatens Cyprus: “Ready to attack those who help Israel”
Hezbollah would not even spare the other countries that have Israel in the war effort, and in this regard cites Cyprus, which hosted Israeli forces for exercises.
“Israeli soldiers who humiliate and kill Palestinians are no different from the fascists at home”
An invective that led to the intervention of Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides: Nicosia “is in no way involved” in any military operation in the region, he specified. Cyprus is “part of the solution, not the problem,” Christodoulides said, recalling the Cyprus-Gaza maritime corridor used to deliver aid to the Palestinian enclave.
UN: “Gaza lacks food, water and milk for children”
Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis in southern Gaza is “fast worsening” for tens of thousands of displaced people crowded into an area along the coast with “blazing summer heat” and where “active conflict and lawlessness” make it “almost impossible for humanitarian workers to meet growing needs and needs”. This is what the latest report on the situation in Gaza by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Unocha) states.
The UN agency also reports that in camps for displaced people in central and southern Gaza, access to water is almost zero and there is a severe shortage of food, as well as milk for children. “Many families report eating only one meal a day, and some report eating one every two or three days,” it reads.
Israel’s blockade continues to “severely undermine the provision of essential humanitarian assistance and services across Gaza, including the provision of food and nutrition assistance, medical care, protection and housing support, and water, sanitation and hygiene services to hundreds of people. thousands of people”, adds the Unocha report.
Israeli raid on Nuseirat refugee camp, two dead
On the conflict front, Al Jazeera reports that at least two people were killed and 12 others were injured following an IDF raid that hit a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp this evening, in the center of the Gaza Strip.
The death toll in the Palestinian enclave since October 7 is at least 37,396 dead and 85,523 injured, according to data from the local Ministry of Health managed by the Islamist movement Hamas.
