The truce agreement is “in the hands of Hamas” declared the American president on Tuesday March 5. The fourth day of negotiations between Israel, the Palestinian terrorist organization and conflict mediators begins in Cairo. Meanwhile, the UN calls for “flooding Gaza” with food aid to enable the population to survive in a terrible humanitarian situation, as famine spreads to the area and cases of child deaths due to malnutrition are reported by hospitals.
Information to remember
⇒ The United States urges Hamas to move forward with the truce agreement
⇒ UN calls for massive, emergency humanitarian aid to Gaza
⇒ An explosion near a ship in Yemen
Explosion near ship in Yemen
An explosion was reported near a ship off the coast of Yemen, where Houthi rebels are increasing attacks on merchant shipping, the maritime security company Ambrey said on Wednesday.
“A nearby vessel reported an explosion near (a) Barbados-flagged bulk carrier owned by an American company,” the British company reported, specifying that it was 57 nautical miles (105 km) away. southwest of the city of Aden.
US calls on Hamas to accept truce
Joe Biden urged Hamas to accept a ceasefire in Gaza before Ramadan which will begin on March 10 or 11, at the end of a third day of talks Tuesday March 5 in Cairo between Israel and the Islamist movement Palestinian. “It’s in the hands of Hamas,” the American president declared Tuesday, judging that the Israelis were “cooperative.”
“We must bring more aid into Gaza, there are no excuses,” Joe Biden also reiterated Tuesday to Israel, while the Palestinian territory is threatened with large-scale famine . In the North in particular, hunger is reaching “catastrophic levels”, the World Food Program (WFP) estimated on Tuesday March 5. He announced that one of his humanitarian convoys, his first to northern Gaza in 15 days, was looted by “a desperate crowd” after being blocked at an Israeli checkpoint inside Palestinian territory.
Australia and ASEAN call for ceasefire
The countries of Southeast Asia (ASEAN) and Australia are calling for an “immediate and lasting” ceasefire in Gaza in the face of the “disastrous” humanitarian situation, declared Wednesday March 6 in a joint statement. leaders of around ten countries – including Indonesia and Malaysia, both with a Muslim majority – met since Monday in Melbourne, after days of diplomatic tensions around this text.
ASEAN and Australia also supported the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), despite Canberra’s decision to suspend funding for this agency, 12 of whose employees are accused by Israel of involvement in the deadly Hamas attack on October 7 in southern Israel.
UN calls to “flood Gaza” with humanitarian aid
The UN on Tuesday urged the world to “flood” Gaza with aid to save children “who are beginning to die of hunger”, after visiting two hospitals in the territory’s north for the first time since the start of the war in October.
Doctors at Kamal Adwan Hospital, the only pediatric hospital in northern Gaza, told the team that “at least 10 children had died of starvation.” The UN has warned that famine in the Gaza Strip is “almost inevitable” in the Palestinian territory. According to a UN assessment in January, more than 15% of children under the age of two in northern Gaza, or one in six, suffer from acute malnutrition and 3% from severe, life-threatening wasting. .
Canadian government arms exports
A coalition of lawyers and citizens of Palestinian origin announced Tuesday that they had filed a complaint in Federal Court against the Canadian government of Justin Trudeau to suspend its arms exports to Israel. Accusing the country of violating international law and its domestic law on arms exports, the plaintiffs seek an order to “stop immoral and illegal arms exports from Canada to Israel,” according to a statement from the NGO CLAIHR.
Elsewhere in the world, similar legal proceedings have also been initiated. In mid-February, a Dutch court in The Hague ordered the Netherlands to stop exporting F-35 parts to Israel, ruling that there was “a clear risk that serious violations of the humanitarian law of war committed in the Gaza Strip” with Israeli F-35 fighter jets. Also in February, British courts rejected an appeal to suspend British arms exports to Israel.
Donald Trump says he supports Israel
Former President Donald Trump, well on his way to being the Republican candidate for the American presidential election, explicitly expressed his support on Tuesday for the war waged by Israel in the Gaza Strip, at a time when international pressure is increasing for the United States is slowing down its ally.
Asked on Fox News whether he was “in Israel’s camp,” he replied “yes.” Asked whether he “agreed” with the way in which the Israeli army was carrying out its offensive in Gaza, Donald Trump responded: “You have to end the problem,” without specifying what he meant. precisely by “problem”.