The fighting intensified. The Israeli army said on Monday (October 30) that its forces had killed “dozens” of fighters during nighttime fighting in the Gaza Strip. The army said “troops killed dozens of terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings and tunnels and attempted to attack them.” A fighter jet targeted a building “with more than 20 Hamas terrorists inside.”
The Hamas terrorist movement had already reported yesterday “violent fighting […] using automatic and anti-tank weapons” in northern Gaza, where the Israeli army has also been operating on the ground since Friday evening.
More than 1,400 people died, mainly civilians, during the attack perpetrated by the Palestinian Islamist movement in Israel. Hamas claims that more than 8,000 people, mostly civilians, and nearly half of them children, have been killed in Israeli bombings since the start of the war. An assessment that no independent source is however able to verify.
More than 30 humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza on Sunday
Thirty-three trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Sunday via the Rafah crossing point on the border with Egypt, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. This is the largest convoy to enter the besieged Palestinian territory since the limited resumption of the delivery of humanitarian aid on October 21, the UN office said.
“While this increase is welcome, a much larger volume of assistance is needed on a regular basis to avoid a further deterioration of the dire humanitarian situation, including civil unrest,” OCHA said in its daily report. “Emergency entry of fuel to operate medical equipment and water and sanitation facilities is particularly necessary,” the report continues.
“Preventing access of humanitarian aid” to Gaza could constitute “a crime” (ICC)
“Preventing access of humanitarian aid” to the Gaza Strip could constitute a “crime,” said the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, in Cairo on Sunday after visiting the border post. of Rafah, linking Egypt to Gaza, where international aid for Palestinian civilians is piling up. According to Karim Khan, “Israel must ensure without delay that civilians receive food and medicine” in Gaza. “In Rafah, I saw blocked trucks, filled with goods and humanitarian aid, far from the hungry mouths and wounds” of Gaza residents, he said.
The head of the ICC declared that he was “investigating crimes that may have been committed in Israel on October 7” but also “ongoing events in Gaza and the West Bank” as part of the official ICC investigation opened in 2021 in the Palestinian Territories. In the occupied West Bank, more than 100 Palestinians have been killed by settlers and during Israeli army operations since October 7.
Aid to Gaza: Hamas urges Egypt to act “decisively”
A Hamas official on Sunday called on Egypt to act “decisively” so that aid reaches the population of Gaza, who are facing significant shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine.
“Egypt must not remain a spectator and be content with calls to allow aid to enter Gaza,” Musa Abu Marzouk, a member of the political bureau of the Palestinian Islamist movement, said in a statement. “We expect Egypt to take a decisive stance allowing aid to enter Gaza as soon as possible,” he added.
Lebanon: new shots towards Israel
The border between Israel and Lebanon is once again under high tension after new shootings announced on Sunday by armed groups, including Palestinian Hamas and the powerful Hezbollah, followed by an infiltration attempt by Islamic Jihad.
During the night from Sunday to Monday, the “Al-Quds Brigades”, the military branch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose fighters are present in Lebanon, announced on their Telegram channel that two of their members were killed in Hanita in the northern Israel after having succeeded in “crossing the security barrier” separating Lebanon from Israel and “confronting the Israeli enemy”. Exchanges of fire have been almost daily in the area between the Israeli army and pro-Palestinian armed groups, including Lebanese Hezbollah, since it began on October 7.
Around sixty Renaissance deputies call for “unconditional” protection of civilians
Sixty-one deputies from the presidential party, including former minister Nadia Hai, call in a forum on Sunday “for the immediate and unconditional protection of civilian populations”, both Israeli and Palestinian, after the extension of IDF military operations in Gaza , in response to Hamas attacks.
“The life of a civilian is worth that of another civilian, whatever their nationality. A Palestinian life is worth a French life which is worth an Israeli life,” write the Renaissance deputies in this text published by Opinion, repeating the words of the President of the Republic. “It is in the name of this humanism that this call for the immediate and unconditional protection of civilian populations – of all civilian lives – must be at the heart of our common effort,” they continue.