The World Health Organization warned of the consequences of the collapse of the health system in the besieged Gaza Strip (Reuters)
On the 174th day of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip and the 18th day of Ramadan, the World Health Organization called for an immediate halt to the Israeli war on Gaza, warning of the consequences of the collapse of the health system, while Kuwait and France announced their support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA). On the Israeli level, the government is experiencing a crisis of recruiting religious Jews that threatens the ruling coalition.
The United Nations Population Fund described the Israeli occupation’s prevention of UNRWA from providing aid to the Palestinians as “a dangerous measure that leads to dire consequences on the humanitarian level in the Gaza Strip.”
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In a related context, Kuwait announced that it had delivered its annual contribution of $2 million to UNRWA.
Kuwait's announcement comes at a time when the agency stated that it has enough money to manage its operations until the end of next May, after many donors suspended their funding to the agency due to Israel's accusations of the participation of some UNRWA employees in the Al-Aqsa Flood battle, which are accusations that Israel was unable to prove and did not provide any evidence. on her.
France also announced that it intends to contribute 30 million euros this year to support UNRWA activities, on the condition that it performs its mission impartially.
On the other hand, the Director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said today, Thursday, that 10 hospitals out of 36 are partially operating in Gaza and the health system is barely surviving.
He called for an immediate halt to Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza, and for the protection of staff, patients, and civilians. Ghebreyesus warned of the consequences of the collapse of the health system in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The death toll rises
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said that, during the past 24 hours, the Israeli occupation forces committed 6 massacres in the Strip, claiming 62 martyrs and 91 wounded. Thus, the number of victims of the Israeli aggression since the seventh of last October rose to 32,552 martyrs, while The number of infected people reached 74,980.
Journalist Imad Zaqout, from the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, said that the occupation forces continue to besiege the complex, bombing its surroundings with aircraft and artillery, in addition to blowing up a number of homes adjacent to it.
Zaqout added that the occupation prevents the treatment and evacuation of patients, or the entry of aid to them. Which led to the martyrdom of a number of the complex’s residents and displaced people in its courtyards and corridors.
In the same context, the government media office in Gaza said that the information available to it indicates that Israeli occupation soldiers executed more than 200 displaced Palestinians inside the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, and arrested about 2,000 others.
He confirmed that the occupation soldiers are threatening the medical teams and the displaced people inside the complex by bombing and destroying the buildings above their heads, or going out for investigation, torture, or execution.
Netanyahu government crisis
Israeli Channel 12 said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the Supreme Court for an additional 30 days to reach approval of the controversial conscription law, amid the worsening dispute over the conscription of religious Jews (Haredim) between religious parties and a number of ministers.
In recent days, the Israeli government has failed to reach an acceptable formula regarding the recruitment of the Haredim, which makes them obligated to enlist starting Monday, early next April.
The Israeli "Wala" military website said that army commanders informed Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that they need to recruit about 20,000 additional soldiers so that the army can carry out routine tasks and military operations in various fields.
Israel is experiencing a severe political crisis due to the conscription law. While the religious parties oppose compromising the principle of exempting religious people from military service, ministers, including War Council member Benny Gantz and Gallant, and opposition leader Yair Lapid, are demanding an end to this exemption.
On the other hand, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority announced that the families of the captured soldiers detained in the Gaza Strip will meet today, Thursday, for the first time with Netanyahu. Noting that the families "will ask Netanyahu to answer a question about his plans to return their children."
Before the meeting, which the Israeli Broadcasting Authority did not mention its location or set a date, Israeli media quoted the families of the detained soldiers as saying: “The security services and the state intimidated us, and no minister contacted us, and we have remained silent since the start of the war at the request of the security services.”
The Jerusalem Post newspaper quoted the soldiers' families as saying in a statement: "Our sons have been abandoned and are being held as corpses by Hamas."
A new Palestinian government
Today, Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas approved the formation of the new Palestinian government headed by economist Muhammad Mustafa, who retained the foreign ministry, two weeks after his appointment.
The Palestinian News and Information Agency (Wafa) reported that the new government, which does not include the names of former ministers except for Interior Minister Ziad Hab Al-Rih, will be sworn in before the president next Sunday.
Battle developments
The Al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement - broadcast images showing the targeting of an Israeli vehicle in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital and clashes with light weapons with occupation soldiers.
One of the fighters appeared in the video targeting the vehicle with a shoulder-fired missile from the window of a house, and another appeared clashing with Israeli soldiers with a machine gun in the middle of a street.
Israeli Channel 12 said that the army has begun preparations to launch an operation in Rafah, if the prisoner negotiations collapse.
Lebanon Front
Al Jazeera's correspondent said that sirens sounded several times in the Israeli towns of Shlomi and Hanita in the Western Galilee, after rockets were fired from southern Lebanon, while Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Beirut to discuss reducing the escalation.
The reporter added that sirens sounded in the towns of Gorn and Gornot in the Western Galilee.
West Bank incursions
The Israeli occupation forces stormed several towns in the West Bank at dawn on Thursday, wounding 6 Palestinian youth in occupied Jerusalem and the city of Nablus, while an Al Jazeera correspondent reported that Israeli reconnaissance aircraft were flying over the city of Tubas in the West Bank.
Palestinian medical sources announced that 4 Palestinian young men were wounded by bullets from the occupation forces in the Qalandia camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, and an Al Jazeera correspondent also reported that another young man was wounded by bullets from the occupation forces at the entrance to the camp.
At least three Israelis were injured by fire fired at a settler bus and several vehicles near the town of Al-Auja, north of the city of Jericho in the Jordan Valley, on Thursday morning.
The Israeli army said that its forces arrived at the scene of the incident, closed the area, and began combing operations in search of the attackers who fled.
An Israeli ambulance spokesman said that the shooting occurred in two close locations in the same area, where the attackers also targeted Israeli cars.
Source: Al Jazeera + agencies