Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday that Israel is setting a new security corridor through Gaza According to El País, he said he was planning to seize large areas of Palestinian territory and launched a wave of strikes that said that Palestinian health officials killed more than 40 people.
In a statement, Netanyahu described the new aisle as the Moragian corridor, using the name of a Jewish settlement that was formerly between Rafah and Khan Younis, which suggests that it would go between the two southern cities.
Israel has pledged to climb the war for almost 18 months with Hamas until the militant group returns dozens of remaining hostages, disarms and abandoned the territory. Israel ended the cessation of fire in March and imposed a stop for all imports of food, fuel and humanitarian aid for a whole month.
« We are increasing step by step pressure, so that our hostages give us. And more do not give, more pressure will increase until they do it, » said Netanyahu.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement that the offensive aims to « grasp large areas that will be added to security areas », without elaboration. Israel controls a buffer area along the Gaza border and recently ordered the complete evacuation of the city of South Rafah.
In northern Gaza, an Israeli air attack collided with a United Nations building in the Jabaliya refugee camp built, killing 15 people, including nine children and two women, according to Indonesia Hospital. The Israeli military said he struck Hamas militants in a control and control center.
The building, formerly a clinic, had become a shelter for displaced people, with more than 700 residents there, according to Juliette Touuma, spokesman for the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, the main provider of Gaza. No United Nations staff was injured on the strike.
He said that the United Nations staff warned the people about the dangers of remaining there after a Wednesday strike, but many chose to stay, « simply because they have absolutely no other place. »
The UN says most of Gaza is an « without going » area
According to Olga Cherevko, a spokesman for the United Nations Humanitarian Aid Office, more than 60% of Gaza is considered to be an « without Go » area due to Israeli evacuation orders. Hundreds of thousands of people live in scheduled tent fields along the coast or the ruins of their destroyed houses.
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Katz, the Minister of Defense, called on Gaza residents to « expel Hamas and return all hostages, » saying « this is the only way to end the war. »
On Sunday, Netanyahu said that Israel plans to maintain general control of Gaza’s security after the war and implement the proposal of President Donald Trump to reinstall much of his population elsewhere through which the Israeli leader is known as « voluntary emigration ».
The Palestinians have rejected the plan, considering it as the expulsion of their native land after the Israel offensive left a large amount of unpatient and human rights experts say that the implementation of the plan would probably violate international law.
Hamas said he will only release the remaining 59 hostages (24 of which are believed to be alive) in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners, a durable cessation and an Israeli tension. The group has rejected the demands that put their arms or leave the territory.
The decision to resume the war has fed protests in Israel, where many fear that they have put the hostages at a serious risk and ask for another cessation of fire and exchange with Hamas.
The hosting family forum, which represents most of the captive families, said they were « horrified to wake up this morning in the announcement of the Minister of Defense on the extension of military operations in Gaza. »
The group called on the Trump administration, which took credit for the intermediation of the cessation of fire, but has supported Israel’s decision to finish -the one, to do his best to release the remaining captives.
« Our highest priority must be an immediate agreement to return home all hostages, rehabilitation life and murders for adequate burial, and end this war, » the group said.
In addition to the 15 deaths in the north of Gaza, the Israeli aerial attacks at night killed another 28 other people throughout the territory, according to local hospitals. Nasser Hospital in South Khan Younis said that the dead included five women, one of them pregnant and two children.
Israel says he only aims to militants and makes every effort to save civilians, blaming Hamas of his deaths because militants operate in densely populated areas.
The war began when the Hamas -led militants attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages, most of whom have been released in fire cessation agreements and other offers. Israel rescued eight living hostages and recovered dozens of bodies.
Israel’s offensive has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not say if the dead are civil or fighters. Israel says he has killed around 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.
The war has left wide areas of Gaza in the ruins and its height moved around 90% of the population.
Scharf reported Jerusalem. Associated Press Writers Elena Becatoros in Athens, Greece; Bassem Mriue to Beirut; And Sam Medick to Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.
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