“We are destroying the terrorist infrastructures, we are demolishing the towers of terror”: Benyamin Netanyahu proudly claims in a meeting with his government the new offensive of the Idf against the skyscrapers of Gaza City. For three consecutive days, the highest buildings in the city were targeted, according to Israel “used by Hamas” as “observation points to monitor the position of Israeli troops”. Lastly, the Al-Ruya tower was reduced to rubble, the third razed on the ground in 72 hours. In the city “we are intensifying the maneuvers” military maneuvers, announced the Israeli premier, while in the sights of the bombings there are not only the buildings: according to what was reported from medical sources to Al Jazeera, the raids have also affected a tent, houses and a school-refuge causing at least 21 deaths.
And the blood of the bombings throughout the enclave flows next to the tragic plague of hunger, which in 24 hours caused 5 other victims including 3 children, bringing the budget of the famine since 387 since the beginning of the war. Before hitting the Al-Ruya tower, the IDF had invited the population to move to the “humanitarian areas” of Al Mawasi and Khan Yunis, in the south of the strip. According to Netanyahu, “about 100 thousand people have already left Gaza City”, but “Hamas is trying to do everything to prevent it to use them as human shields”. The reading of Hamas is different, who for days has been talking about raids against the towers as “war crimes” that affect buildings “used by civilians”, while the civil protection of the strip has declared that in total, at least 50 buildings of Gaza City have been razed to the ground by Israeli attacks, and another 100 were damaged. By putting aside the declarations, images and testimonies bounced on the social media of yet another Palazzo razor on the ground tell of panic among those who still remain in Gaza City, despite the advance of Israeli troops.
Trump’s solution
A diplomatic solution of the conflict remains uphill: according to Channel 12, the President of the United States would have presented to Hamas a new proposal for a global agreement that provides for the release of all the hostages (alive and deceased) on the first day of the agreement in exchange for the liberation of thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including hundreds of terrorists and the end of the Israeli operation for the conquest of the city of Gaza. According to the Israeli channel, Trump will manage negotiations directly to end the war and hostility would not resume until the end of the talks. Hamas – according to Channel 12 – has not yet responded to the proposal, while Israel would be willing to accept it. But if the rumors feed a debate that still does not find concrete results, the war meanwhile goes on and also strikes in Israel: in a rare event in recent months, a Houthi drone has managed to puncture the defenses of the Idf hitting a terminal of the Eilat-Ramon airport, causing a slight wounded and the temporary closure of the air space on the airport. Previously, the army had managed to break down three other UAVs launched by Yemen, while in the morning two rockets launched by the Gaza Strip towards the Israeli communities in the south of the country had no consequences: one was intercepted while the second fell into an uninhabited area.
With distant peace, the international condemnation for the Israeli offensive in Gaza and the manifestations of solidarity for the Palestinian people continues to grow. In the United Kingdom, the iron fist adopted by the police against the protest organized on Saturday in London in support of Palestine Action, a group branded by the Government as “terrorist organization” and banned from the country, unleashed a wave of controversy: the police announced that she arrested 890 people in the sit-in on Saturday. A figure that brings to over 1,500 the number of demonstrators stopped in London in a few weeks for having expressed solidarity with Palestine Action, and which feeds the accusations against the police of an unprecedented repression for British standards. Meanwhile, the departure from Tunis of the Global Sumud Flotilla, postponed to 10 September for technical, logistical and coordination reasons with the rest of the fleet is expected. At the tourist port of Sidi Bou Said, several hundred supporters welcomed the ships ready to sail towards Gaza with Palestinian flags, songs and slogans propal.