Israel Hamas War : Israeli Envoy To UN Says ‘Hamas Are Modern-Day Nazis’
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Israel Hamas War : Israel has expanded its ground operations in Gaza as the ‘long and difficult’ war with Hamas has entered the ‘second phase’. Israeli troops pervaded through the Gazan borders into the enclave’s main city, raising concerns about the plight of Palestinian civilians. Israel said it freed a soldier, one of the hostages, from Hamas’ captivity during the raid.
Hamas said its fighters retaliated the troops with machine guns and anti-tank missiles. The armed wing of the militant group al-Qassam brigades said it attacked Israeli forces ‘invading the southern Gaza axis’.
Meanwhile, the United Nations said in an emergency meeting that ‘an immediate humanitarian ceasefire has become a matter of life and death for millions’ in Palestine.
The Gazan health ministry claimed that around 66% of more than 8,300 people killed in the beseiged enclave since the beginning of the war were women and children. “This means that more than 420 children are being killed or injured in Gaza each day – a number which should shake each of us to our core,” UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell said.
The United Nations special envoy said the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas is spilling into Syria, fueled by growing instability, violence and a lack of progress toward a political solution to its 12-year conflict. Geir Pedersen, the UN official, said the Syrian poeple now face ‘a terrifying prospect of a potential wider escalation’ following the surprising October 7 attack.
Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gaza on Monday, advancing in tanks and other armored vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants. The Israeli prime minister rejected calls for a cease-fire as airstrikes landed near hospitals where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering beside the wounded.
The military said a soldier captured during Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 incursion was rescued in Gaza — the first rescue since the weekslong war began. Military officials provided few details but said in a statement that Pvt. Ori Megidish, 19, was “doing well” and had met with her family.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed her home, saying the “achievement” by Israel’s security forces “illustrates our commitment to free all the hostages.”
Thailand’s foreign minister on Tuesday began an urgent visit to Qatar and Egypt to talk on the matter related to the release of 22 Thai nations taken hostage by Hamas after the October 7 attack.
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said Monday his government was working hard to get Thai citizens home.
He has dispatched Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara to meet the Qatari prime minister and foreign minister on Tuesday, before talks with the Egyptian foreign minister on Wednesday.
Parnpree will “discuss the situation of Thai nationals being held hostage as a result of the ongoing violence in Israel and Gaza”, the ministry said in a statement.
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