At least five people from the Al Jazeera staff, two journalists and three operators, were killed in Gaza.
According to the satellite channel it was a targeted Israeli raid against a tent that housed journalists in the City, in front of the Shifa hospital, in the Rimal district. According to what reported, the journalists killed are Muhammad Karika and Anas Al-Sharif, who had long followed the events in the strip.
Hamas’s Al-Aqsa channel stated that at least four people were killed in the attack and several others were injured.
For their part, the Israeli Armed Forces IDF have made it known to have eliminated the “journalist-terrorist” Anas Al-Sharif in the Gaza City area in the north of the Strip. Ynet reports it. In the Declaration of the Idf spokesperson we read that “the terrorist masked his identity by acting in disguise, but was” instead “to the head of a Hamas cell and promoted launching plans against citizens of the state of Israel and Israeli forces”. According to the declaration “the IDF had previously revealed intelligence information that confirmed its military affiliation with the terrorist organization of Hamas. The documents once again confirm its terrorist activity, which at Jazeera attempted to deny”.
At Jazeera he confirmed that two of his correspondents and two cameramen were killed and that there is also a fifth victim. “As we reported, the journalists of Al Jazeera Anas Al-Sharif and Muhammad Karika were killed together with the cameraman Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal in a targeted Israeli attack against a tent that housed journalists in Gaza City. Now we can confirm that Moamen Aliwa, recovery operator, was also killed in this attack”.
Meanwhile, Israel pulls straight on the attack plan in Gaza despite international criticisms. While Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made it known that Australia will recognize the Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September. “Until there are an Israeli state and a Palestinian state – said Albanese – Peace can only be temporary. Australia will recognize the right of the Palestinian people to its own state”.
“I don’t want to prolong the war, I want to end it. Israel has no choice but end the job” and “destroy” Hamas. Overwhelmed by the rain of international and internal criticisms, starting from the crowded squares of demonstrators up to its own government allies – such as the far -right minister Bezalel Smotrich who would like to annex the strip – Benyamin Netanyahu has convened two press conferences (one for the foreign print and one for the local media) to explain the new military offensive that aims to occupy Gaza City defined ” terror “.
And to reject the accusations of grabbing the civilian population of the Striscia: “Open your eyes on Hamas lies,” said the premier to journalists in his offices in Jerusalem, while a writing with the same words stood behind him. Immediately after, the Palestinian faction sent the same accusation to the sender: “Everything that Netanyahu said at the press conference is a series of lies”.
In the same hours in New York the UN Security Council met to discuss the Israeli plan, defined by the glass building “yet another dangerous escalation” which risks aggravating a humanitarian catastrophe already of “unimaginable dimensions”. But Netanyahu does not feel reasons and pulls straight: “Our goal is not to occupy Gaza, but to free her, free it from Hamas”, marked the premier explaining that the army had the order to “dismantle the last two strongholds of the terrorist group, to Gaza City and in the central fields” of the Striscia, including the humanitarian area of Mawasi. Israel will start “in a short time”, but “first of all allowing civilians to leave the combat areas and reach designated areas”, where they will receive “food, water and medical care in abundance”, he assured, also announcing the opening of new safe corridors and new distribution sites of the aid of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the controversial Israeli American organization already at the center of strong criticisms.
Netanyahu has therefore strongly rejected the accusations of wanting to grasp the Palestinians: “Our policy throughout the war was to conjunction a humanitarian crisis, while Hamas’ policy was to create it”, sabotaged and sacrifice the foodstuffs. Since the beginning of the war, Israel has distributed “2 million tons of aid”, has claimed the Prime Minister, accusing the UN of “not having wanted them to deliver” and the international media of having believed in Hamas’s propaganda “blind”. In particular, he ventilated the opportunity to sue the New York Times for publishing the photo of a sick Gaza child, Muhamad Zakaria Aub, claiming that he was denounced due to the blocking of aid by Israel. On the contrary, he attacked Netanyahu, “the only ones who are deliberately dying of hunger are our hostages”, and in turn showed the dramatic photo of the hostage Evyatar David strongly slimming and closed in a Hamas tunnel.
In essence, the premier has closed, the new military plan is “the fastest way to end the war”. After that, the strip will be governed “by a peaceful and non -Israeli civil administration”, but it will not be “neither Hamas nor the Palestinian national authority”. And to a question about Germany’s decision to suspend the sending of weapons to the Jewish state, Netanyahu replied that Chancellor Friedrich Merz “is a friend, but has given to the pressures” of various groups and fake news. And he said he was sure that Israel “will win the war with or without the support of others”.
However, tens of thousands of Israelis who invaded the squares of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are also opposed to the operation. The family members of the hostages, who fear that the new offensive endanger their loved ones still alive, have called a general strike for next Sunday to block the country and say “enough war”.