Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) – The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday warned Israelis would move to annex The occupied West Bank It becomes a “red line” without specifying the possibility of an impact on the groundbreaking normalization agreement between the two countries.
Warnings came as Israel moved forward in the early stages of Latest major attacks in Gaza city hit by hunger. Israel’s strike Crossing the Gaza Strip At least 31 people died overnight and Wednesday, according to a local hospital.
Israelis took part in a nationwide demonstration to protest Calling 60,000 Reserves For extended operations It sparked global condemnation And the country was becoming increasingly isolated.
Protesters denounced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prolong the fight for political purposes Instead of reaching Ceasefire contract with Hamas It will be a free hostage photographed on October 7, 2023, which fired the war.
Rare warnings from the UAE
The UAE was the driving force behind it. 2020 Abraham Accord Mediated by President Donald Trump, where it and three other Arab countries forged their ties to Israel. Trump said he hopes to expand the agreement in a second term as it could include Saudi Arabia’s regional strength.
Anwar Gargash, senior diplomat at Emirati, wrote on social platform X, “Annexation is a red line.”
He concludes with the era of Israeli narratives cited another Emirati diplomat, Rana Nusseybe, saying that “Abraham) would seriously undermine the vision and spirit of the agreement, and that this trajectory of the conflict will thrive in peace, and that this trajectory of the conflict will change the widely shared consensus about what this trajectory of the conflict is doing.
It is unclear what action the United Arab Emirates will take, and the Emirati Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to questions that it wanted clarification.
Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East War. The Palestinians hope that all three territories will form a future state. The current government of Israel I am stubbornly opposed to the Palestinian state and Supports final merger Many on the West Bank.
According to local media, far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotlich held a press conference on Wednesday, releasing a map showing the annexation of most of the West Bank. It is unclear whether his plans have Netanyahu’s support.
Many Palestinians and the international community say that annexation will almost end all remaining possibilities. This is widely seen internationally as the only way to resolve conflicts that were decades ago.
Palestinians face more evacuation as the strike continues
The Israeli strike in Gaza city killed at least 15 people, including two children and four women, according to Shifa Hospital and Al-QUDS Hospital, where the bodies were filmed. Another 16 people were killed in South Gaza, including 10 people seeking humanitarian aid, according to Nasser Hospital.
Israel says it will target extremists only and take steps to save civilians. Extremists are operating in densely populated areas and condemn the private deaths of Hamas.
Israel says Gaza city – The largest city in Palestine Either on the besieged strip or the occupied West Bank, it remains Hamas’s base, even after some major raids early in the war.
Israel has intensified air and ground attacks in the outskirts of Gaza city, according to humanitarian groups that coordinate displaced people’s assistance.
One such group, Site Management Cluster, said on Wednesday that families are trapped in being bound by movement, logistical hurdles and lack of places to go.
“Palestinians are also reluctant to move. Fear of not being able to go back Or fatigue from repeated displacements,” it said.
Deaths from war and hunger
The Twin Threat of Battle and Hungry, According to Palestinians and aid workers, it’s only become more serious for Gaza families, many of which have been exiled multiple times during nearly two years of war.
The Gaza Health Ministry said Wednesday that five adults and one child have died of malnutrition on the past day, bringing total casualties to 367 people, including 131 children during the war. Experts have condemned Israel’s continued attacks and blockade against the starvation crisis. Netanyahu denies there is hunger in Gaza Testimony, data, and survey results From key experts who will propose in other ways.
The ministry reported on Tuesday that a total of 63,633 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli fire, including more than 2,300 aid, since the start of the war. The ministry, which is part of Hamas-run government but with medical professionals, does not distinguish between that number of civilians and combatants, but says women and children account for half of the deaths.
United Nations agencies and many independent experts consider the province’s figures to be the most reliable estimate of the casualties of the war. Israel challenges them, but does not offer its own sacrifice.
Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians in the attack on October 7th, and took 251 hostages. 48 is still being held in Gaza, About 20 of them were believed to be aliveafter most of the rest is returned in ceasefires or other transactions.
Israel raids another Palestinian bookstore in Jerusalem
Israeli police arrested the owner of a popular Palestinian cafe and bookstore in East Jerusalem, his lawyer said.
Tony Sabela, owner of the Old Town Gateway Café, was taken to a nearby police station and was still in custody several hours later, his lawyer, Nassar Ode, added that police have no arrest warrants. Ode said they confiscated five books, but he said the arrest was part of a “clear effort to crush the city’s intellectual production.”
gateway The third Palestinian-owned bookstore This year, they will be attacked by Israeli forces. Police did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The day before, Israeli police and Plain Cross police officers spent more than an hour in the store and filmed a book about the conflict. They ordered him to the police station on Thursday, telling the owner that he could not sell the book in Israel. An Associated Press reporter witnessed the encounter.
The cafe is the mainstay of Jerusalem diplomats, journalists and writers.
Israel says Hamas plotted as if he assassinated a far-right minister
In another development, Israel’s Internal Security Agency said it had recently arrested Hamassel in the West Bank, where he was suspected of conspiracy to assassinate Israel’s far-right national security minister. itamar ben-gvir.
Singh Bett’s agent said the suspect was found on a drone that he had planned to rig using explosives. The number of people arrested was not identified, and it was unclear how far the suspicious plot had progressed.
___
The Mets reported from Jerusalem and Gambrel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Julia Frankel, Associated Press writers in Jerusalem and Fatma Khaledo of Cairo, contributed to this report.
___
Follow AP coverage in https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war
