The onslaught in Gaza is continuing unabated despite ceasefire negotiations which have now been ongoing since November last year
The onslaught in Gaza is continuing unabated despite ceasefire negotiations which have now been ongoing since November last year.
Just as negotiators on both sides were talking of a breakthrough, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday imposed a raft of new conditions he requires for a truce to be agreed. He described these as four ‘ironclad principles.’
Meantime the carnage continues. On Saturday Israeli airstrikes targeted what they had deemed as safe-zones and where up to 1.5 million Palestinians had sought refuge. Instead of safety however, on Saturday the Israel Air Force sent a raft of warplanes across the Gaza Strip, zeroing in on this area. The airstrikes, according to the Ministry of Health, have left seventy-one people dead and 289 injured. Scores more are believed to be buried in rubble.
According to Israel’s Army Radio, the attack targeted Mohammad Deif, the leader of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing (left), and Rafa Salama, the commander of Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade (right).
