Tel Aviv, April 16 (IANS/DPA) Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has mentioned additional motion in Rafah with representatives of his ministry and the Israeli COGAT authority which oversees contacts with the Palestinians and support.
They centered on the evacuation of civilians from Rafah, within the south of the Gaza Strip and the growth of meals and medication deliveries, based on the federal government press workplace.
Greater than 1,000,000 folks have fled to Rafah from assaults all through the densely populated strip and there are rising issues that Israel’s deliberate offensive in Rafah might result in mass civilian casualties.
Earlier than Iran unleashed its assault on Israel final week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned he had set a date for an offensive in Rafah, although Gallant contradicted this shortly afterwards.
In the meantime, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with the Emir of Qatar and known as for elevated cooperation between Muslim international locations in view of the conflict in Gaza, his workplace mentioned.
These international locations should improve their efforts to cease Israel’s “brutal assaults” within the Gaza Strip and to carry the nation accountable for “crimes towards humanity,” based on an announcement from the presidential workplace.
Erdogan informed Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani it was essential to exert a restraining affect on Israel and to behave with frequent sense with the intention to stop the unfold of tensions within the area.
Relations between Israel and Turkey massively deteriorated after the beginning of the Gaza conflict following the bloodbath by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Israel in October. Erdogan has harshly criticized Israel’s navy motion in Gaza, accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of committing a “bloodbath,” fees Israel rejects.
The Turkish authorities maintains hyperlinks with Hamas, which guidelines the Gaza Strip. Not like some European international locations and the US, Turkey doesn’t classify Hamas as a terrorist group.
Within the assault by Hamas and different Palestinian militants on the Israeli border space on October 7, 2023, greater than 1,200 folks have been killed and round 200 folks have been kidnapped to the Gaza Strip.
Greater than 33,000 folks have been killed in Gaza for the reason that outbreak of conflict on October 7, 2023, based on well being officers within the Hamas-led area.
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