All of Gaza’s land borders are under Israeli control

Despite severe international criticism, Israel continued its attack on Rafah on Thursday (5/30), after announcing on Wednesday that it had seized Controlling the strategic neutral zone along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egyptlocated near the city that has now turned into the new center of the war that will be completed in a few days and eight months.

On Wednesday night into Thursday, the Palestinian Red Crescent announced the death of two of its workers “direct hit” From the Israeli army Against the ambulance In the western sector of Rafah.

Meanwhile the Israeli army Forces were deployed in different cities In the occupied West Bank, following a “car attack” last night that claimed the lives of two Israelis in Nablus.

At first the army simply said they were “Israeli civilians,” before later clarifying that the victims were twenty soldiers from the Kfir Brigade.

According to the Palestinian Authority. In the West Bank, at least 519 Palestinians were killed After the outbreak of the Gaza War, Israeli army operations and settler attacks occurred. Meanwhile, 14 people were killed on the Israeli side, including two soldiers, in the same period, according to an Agence France-Presse count based on official announcements.

In Gaza, the Israeli army said it found about “20 underground tunnels” in the border area, which it said were used for smuggling by armed groups into the Palestinian Strip.

The Egyptian government denied the existence of tunnels under the borderCairo confirmed that Israel, with this claim, is trying to justify its attack on Rafah.

Despite international outrage and outrage following the deadly bombing of a Rafah displacement camp on Sunday, the Israeli army is continuing its ground operations that it began on May 7 to eliminate what it says are the last ranks of Hamas’ military wing.

Street fighting and shelling raged in the city yesterday, a day after tanks stormed the city centre.

In Khan Yunis, three bodies were recovered from a house that was bombedAccording to the Palestinian Civil Protection.

Rami Abu Jazzar said, trying hard to contain his sobs, after bidding farewell to his children wrapped in white shrouds, “I lost (…) my eight-year-old son, Haidar, and five-year-old Makkah, my only daughter.”

In about three weeks One million PalestiniansAccording to UN calculations, she left Rafah. Most of them were displaced several times, who had found refuge there and were now forced out again.

The importance of the Philadelphia Corridor to Israel

The Israeli army announced that “in the past few days” it had taken complete control of the so-called Philadelphia CorridorIt is a 14-kilometre-wide buffer zone on the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip near Rafah.

“The Philadelphia K corridor was used Oxygen tube Israeli army spokesman Admiral Daniel Hagari said that Hamas regularly smuggles weapons into the Gaza Strip.

According to him, “An advanced underground terrorist infrastructure was found east of Rafah, one and a half kilometers long, and about 100 meters from the crossing.” It connects Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

This border crossing, crucial for the delivery of humanitarian aid, remains closed after the Israeli army seized it in early May.

Al-Sisi called for preventing any “coercive” movement of Gaza residents

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi today called on the international community to prevent any “forceful” movement against the residents of the Gaza Strip, during the China and Arab Countries Forum in Beijing.

“I call on the international community to immediately provide long-term humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, end the Israeli blockade and prevent any attempt to force Palestinians to leave their lands by force.”The Egyptian President said in his speech.

Al-Sisi estimated that “there is no path to peace and stability in the region” without a “comprehensive approach to the Palestinian issue.”

He also called for “serious and immediate commitment to the two-state solution and recognition of the Palestinians’ legitimate right to an independent state.”

“The war may continue for another seven months.”

For Israeli National Security Advisor Chai Hanegbi, the war could last “seven more months” to achieve the stated goal of destroying Hamas, which has held power in the Gaza Strip since 2007 and whose military arm on October 7 launched an unprecedented raid on southern Israel.

The attack led to the deaths of about 1,189 people, most of them civilians, according to a tally prepared by Agence France-Presse based on official Israeli data.

Among the additional 252 people who were kidnapped and transferred to the Gaza Strip, 121 people are still being held hostage There, but 37 of them are believed to have died, according to the Israeli army.

In response, Israel’s political and military leadership vowed to eliminate Hamas, which the United States and the European Union classify as a terrorist organization, and whose large-scale operations in the Gaza Strip have since killed at least 36,171 people, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Health Ministry. Enthusiastically.

The war displaced most of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million residents and caused a humanitarian catastrophe.

Algeria announced yesterday, Tuesday, that it was submitting a draft resolution to the UN Security Council demanding an “immediate” ceasefire and an end to Israeli operations in Rafah.

During his phone call with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, French President Emmanuel Macron affirmed Paris’s “determination” to “work with France and its partners” in South Africa so that the UN’s highest body can “strongly express Rafa.”

The Algerian draft resolution was distributed during an emergency Security Council meeting after the bombing of the refugee camp in Rafah, which killed 45 people, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.

American bombs in the camp’s blood

According to a newspaper report The New York Times And network television CNNBased in part on analysis of images of munitions debris, the Israeli Armed Forces used US GBU-39 guided bombs, manufactured by the Boeing Group and carrying an explosive charge weighing approximately 17 kg, in the Rafah bombing.

The Israelis said that they used (in Rafah) bombs weighing 37 pounds (about 17 kilograms). If a bomb weighs “37 pounds” it’s not “big.”White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby commented, adding that Washington is awaiting the results of an internal investigation conducted by the Israeli army into the bombing.

The United States, the main supporter of Israel politically and militarily at the international level, stressed that it “does not turn a blind eye” to the civilian casualties in Rafah, but it nevertheless confirms that Israeli forces did not unleash a “major ground attack” on the city, which may raise doubts about the support. Almost unconditionally American.

For US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Israel is required to develop a post-war plan as quickly as possible: “Without a plan for the next day, there will be no next day,” he warned.