Israeli bombings continue. They left dozens dead on Sunday, March 10, in the Gaza Strip, where Ramadan begins without an agreement on a truce between Israel and Hamas, while the international community tries to send aid to the stricken population. by starvation.
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⇒ No truce in sight at the start of Ramadan in Gaza
⇒ Saudi king calls for end to ‘heinous crimes’ in Gaza
⇒ Gaza: President Biden “is wrong,” says Netanyahu
No truce in sight at the start of Ramadan in Gaza, which is awaiting aid
The Gaza Strip, in the grip of a serious humanitarian crisis, remains under fire from the Israeli offensive against Hamas, with no prospect of a truce at the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on Monday. The population of the territory, struck by famine, is desperately waiting for food.
A ship loaded with 200 tonnes of food, chartered by the Spanish NGO Open Arms, was due to leave Cyprus on Sunday for the Palestinian territory but its departure has not been confirmed. On Sunday, residents flocked to the beach in southern Gaza City hoping to see him arrive. “I have been waiting since this morning,” because Monday “begins the holy month of Ramadan and the situation is tragic,” one of them, Mohammed Harrara, told AFP.
Saudi king calls for end to ‘heinous crimes’ in Gaza as Ramadan begins
King Salman, ruler of Saudi Arabia, called on the international community to put an end to the “heinous crimes” perpetrated in Gaza, in his message published on the occasion of the start of Ramadan. Speaking as custodian of two of Islam’s holiest sites, King Salman on Sunday gave thanks for “blessings bestowed on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” but stressed that the war in the Gaza Strip was overshadowing the month of fasting which opens for Muslims.
“As we witness the arrival of Ramadan this year, our hearts are filled with sadness over the continued suffering of our Palestinian brothers facing relentless aggression,” he said.
Gaza: President Biden “is wrong”, says Benjamin Netanyahu
US President Joe Biden, who criticized the conduct of the war in Gaza, “is wrong”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a newspaper interview on Sunday Politico. The American president said on Saturday that Benjamin Netanyahu was “doing more harm than good to Israel” through his conduct of the war in Gaza.
“I don’t know exactly what the president meant, but if he meant that I am pursuing a personal policy against the wishes of the majority of Israelis, and that I am going against the interests of Israel, then he is wrong on both points,” said Benjamin Netanyahu.
Roussel: in Gaza “we are heading towards genocide, it is underway”
“We were talking about a genocidal risk. What I heard, what I see, is that we are heading towards genocide. It is underway,” the national secretary of the PCF accused Sunday on Europe 1 and CNews , Fabien Roussel, returning from a visit to Jerusalem and Ramallah.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is “wiping out the Palestinian people in Gaza,” he said, describing a population of 2.1 million “bombed” and “dying of hunger” in a territory “which is closed off”, where “there is no humanitarian aid coming in”, and which is threatened by “epidemics”. “When we look at recent history of sieges where populations were besieged, bombed and exterminated, it’s Sarajevo, it’s the Warsaw ghetto,” he compared.
War in Gaza: Hamas remains “open to negotiations” (Haniyeh)
Hamas remains “open to negotiations” on a truce in Gaza, declared Sunday the leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Ismaïl Haniyeh, in a message on the eve of Ramadan which begins in several Muslim countries. “I say clearly that the occupation (Israel) bears the responsibility for not reaching an agreement, but I say that we are open to continuing negotiations, in whatever form it takes,” he assured. in a television message.
“If we receive from our brother mediators a clear commitment from the occupier to withdraw (from the Gaza Strip, editor’s note), to stop its aggression and to allow the return of the displaced, we are ready to move forward and to show flexibility on the exchange (of hostages and prisoners, Editor’s note),” he added.