CAUGHT BY AL-JAZEERA.COM
As mediators attempt to broker a solution once more, Hamas charges the Israeli prime minister of impeding talks for a ceasefire and the release of the hostages.
Hamas has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of obstructing peace negotiations and claims that Israel’s increasing attacks throughout the Gaza Strip are not aiding in the talks.
It might “reset the negotiation process to square one” if the “catastrophic consequences of what is happening in Gaza” continue, as Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh cautioned in a statement on Monday.
Haniyeh, cited by Hamas, stated that Netanyahu and his army will take “full responsibility for the collapse of this path.”
Israel’s military issued an order on Sunday for residents of Gaza City’s northern Tuffah, Daraj, and Old City areas to leave “immediately.”
In a further statement, Hamas said that in an attempt to impede any attempts at reaching a mutual understanding, Netanyahu had escalated “his aggression and crimes against our people.”
Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Hind Khoudary stated that despite the region being “overwhelmed” by a significant number of displaced Palestinians from throughout the enclave, the Palestinians had been forced to relocate to the heart of the Gaza Strip.
Thousands of Palestinians are living in overcrowded tent camps, while the majority of the 2.3 million people living in Gaza are displaced.
Speaking with Palestinians who chose not to flee because there was “no safe place to go,” Khoudary claimed she had spoken with them. According to her, they didn’t “want to lose their dignity by being uprooted and living in improvised camps without access to food and water.”
Additionally, Palestinian refugees’ tent camps have been targeted by Israeli forces. In an attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp on June 8, Israeli forces liberated four Israeli prisoners detained there and killed at least 274 Palestinians.
Since October 7, Israel has killed at least 38,193 Palestinians and injured 87,903, according to information released on Monday by Gaza’s health ministry. According to the ministry, forty Palestinians have died in the last twenty-four hours.
Israel expands military operations
Following a night of intense bombing in areas it claimed had been cleared months before, Israeli tanks pushed into the center of Gaza City as the military issued an order for the population to leave.
Following weeks of warfare, the Israeli military claimed that its forces had attacked and destroyed schools and a clinic in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shujayea.
The Israeli army, according to Khoudary, has increased ground operations in the vicinity of Shujayea.
A few people attempted to flee. Under heavy airstrikes and artillery fire, some people managed to escape; others, however, were stuck and could not escape,” she claimed.
More evacuation orders for Gaza City’s central Rimal district were issued on Monday.
More Read
The United States, Qatar, and Egypt are stepping up their efforts to mediate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas at the same time as the Israeli offensive.
The Palestinian organization has agreed to sign an accord, but Hamas had demanded that Israel first commit to a lasting ceasefire.
The Israeli military urged the people of Gaza City to move south to the city of Deir el-Balah, saying that it had intelligence indicating that fighters from both Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) were in the area.
