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MULTIPLE BATTLES. People walk past a mound of trash and destroyed buildings in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Tueday amid several battles between Israeli troops and Hamas militants in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. UN chief Antonio Guterres repeated his call for a humanitarian ceasefire to allow more aid into the besieged territory.
That means around a quarter of Gaza’s population of 2.4 million people have been displaced again in about one week. Since Israeli troops moved into eastern Rafah, the aid crossing point from Egypt has remained closed and the nearby Kerem Shalom crossing lacks “safe and logistically viable access”, a UN report said late Monday.Israeli police on Tuesday said they had opened an investigation after right-wing activists stopped and ransacked at least seven Gaza-bound aid trucks coming from Jordan, leaving food spilt on the road.
“I’m outraged by the repeated & still unchecked attacks perpetrated by Israeli extremists on aid convoys on their way to Gaza, including from Jordan. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are starving,” Borrell posted on X late Tuesday. Clashes have rocked densely crowded Rafah but also flared again in northern and central Gaza months after troops and tanks first entered those areas.
Despite threatening to withhold some arms over concerns of a Rafah assault, US President Joe Biden’s administration informed Congress on Tuesday of a $1 billion weapons package for Israel, official sources told AFP.
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