World leaders are calling for an immediate stoppage to Israel’s ongoing offensive after it launched fresh predawn airstrikes on Sunday in Gaza, killing another 78 people, with the death toll expected to rise as scores of people have been injured, confirmed Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The Spanish prime minister vocal critic of Israel's ongoing operations in Gaza, urged world leaders to put pressure to stop Israel's "massacre in Gaza" and said Madrid is planning to introduce a UN resolution requesting a world court ruling on aid access to the Palestinian territory.
Israel’s defence forces have announced that they are in the initial stages of the latest offensive aimed at defeating Hamas, for which they have also called in their reservists.
Experts suggest that defeating Hamas was never an objective of the Israeli government, as the larger objective is to seize the territory for the settlers.
The claim is also confirmed by far-right political leaders like Smotrich and Ben Gvir, who have openly called for the displacement of Gazans and the settlement of Israelis in occupied territory.
Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza, killing at least 78 Palestinians in pre-dawn attacks, including 36 in the so-called “safe zone” of al-Mawasi, confirmed the health ministry in Gaza.
This comes at a time when Arab leaders in Baghdad call for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza and appeal for global action to get humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.
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Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,272 Palestinians and wounded 120,673, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Basem Naim, an official spokesperson of Hamas, told reporters that he was given assurance by the US special envoy Steve Witkoff that the Trump administration would compel Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza two days after the release of US-Israeli citizen Edan Alexander.
Naim, who is a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said that Witkoff also promised that Trump would make a public call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for negotiations aimed at achieving a “permanent ceasefire.”
“He did nothing of this,” the official said. “They didn’t violate the deal. They threw it in the trash.”
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