Israel “expands his activities to Gaza City”, where a massive offensive massive with the declared goal of closing the accounts with Hamas and bringing home the hostages still in captivity is underway. “We will use unprecedented force,” the military spokesman in Arabic, colonel Avichay Adraee, warned on social media, inviting the Palestinians again to leave the city to move “in the humanitarian area in the south” of the strip.
According to the estimates of the same IDF, there are already at least 480 thousand people who have escaped so far by Gaza City who counted about one million inhabitants, including residents and displaced people, before Israel announced the ‘Gedeone 2’ wagons and the intention to occupy the city. The escape of civilians accelerated after the latest assault, with endless files of people on foot, vehicles, carts towed by donkeys that crowd the coastal road at Rashid, the only one who remained open for evacuation after the closure of the central one, the Salah al-Din, as Adraee still announced.
Other dozens of Palestinians, at least 33, instead were killed in the Israeli attacks along the strip, of which 18 in the Gaza City alone. Two people died while looking for food aid, 4 others from malnutrition, making the balance of the Palestinians who starve from the beginning of the war rise to 440: 147 were children. The IDF has made it known that he had “eliminated 10 terrorists and dismantled over 20 military sites of Hamas” and to “continue to operate against terrorist threats also to Khan Yunis and Rafah”, in the southern strip.
And while the war in Gaza is tightened – also feeding the anxiety of the families of the 48 hostages still in the hands of Hamas in a permanent garrison under the house of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu – the high -level week of the United Nations General Assembly opens on Monday where a dozen countries, headed by France and Saudi Arabia, intend to recognize the state of Palestine to give life to the two -state solution, Under the rubble of the Striscia after the Hamas attack two years ago.
For French President Emmanuel Macron, the recognition of a Palestinian state is the “best way to isolate Hamas” and to guarantee Israel’s security: the Paris move in fact provides for the liberation of Israeli hostages and the demilitarization of the Islamic faction as a condition, as well as that the future administration is entrusted to a reformed Palestinian Authority. Firmly against Israel and the United States, who on Thursday evening placed the veto to a resolution of the UN Security Council for a ceased to cease in Gaza precisely because the text “did not condemn Hamas”.
To hinder the Franco-Saudi initiative, in recent weeks the Trump administration had denied the visas to the Palestinian delegation that was to reach the glass building. However, the General Assembly authorized the president of the ANP Abu Mazen to participate in videoconference with a vote that saw 145 favorable countries, five against and six abstentions. The Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman will also take place remotely, despite being promoter with Macron of the meeting dedicated to Palestine.
Meanwhile, the Security Council has reintroduced the penalties against Iran for its nuclear program: the fifteen have rejected (with 4 votes in favor, 9 against and 2 abstentions) a resolution that would have allowed to extend its revocation decided with the 2015 agreement. The measures will therefore fall into force on September 28, unless a last minute agreement and a new vote. Paris – who is part of the E3 group with London and Berlin who treats with Tehran on the dossier – said he has tried “with all the means of finding an alternative”, relaunching the appeal to find a negotiated solution.
“Diplomacy is carried out through dialogue, not through pressure and intimidation”, replied the Iranian ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, however leaving the door of diplomacy open “. Israel for his part insists:” The goal of the international community must not change: prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear skills “.