What happened in the last few hours?
Sunday, April 7 at 8:00 p.m. Here are the top stories of the day on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza:
● Israel asserts that the withdrawal from southern Gaza is aimed at preparing forces for new operations. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant assured this Sunday that the majority of Israeli troops will be withdrawn from the south of the Gaza Strip, particularly from the city of Khan Yunis, to prepare these forces for future operations. The town of Rafah is south of the Palestinian border.
● Netanyahu: “There will be no ceasefire without the return of kidnapped people.” Six months into the war in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated that there will be no ceasefire agreement if the 133 hostages held by Hamas are not returned home. Give in to the “extreme demands” of the Islamists. “I made it clear to the international community: there will be no ceasefire without the return of the abducted people. It simply won't happen,” Netanyahu said in a speech before meeting his cabinet today, noting that North American President Joe Biden's administration shares his same view.
● The US does not believe that the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Gaza anticipates new measures.. John Kirby, a White House spokesman, said in an interview Sunday that the United States does not believe that the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the southern Gaza Strip is an anticipation of new actions in other parts of the Palestinian territory. ABC Network.
● Iran has claimed that Israel used US-made warplanes and missiles against its embassy in Syria.. Iran's foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, said on Sunday that Israel had used US-made warplanes and missiles in an attack against its embassy in Syria, and that Tehran would punish the “aggressors”.
● Chef Jose Andrés accused Israel of waging a “war against humanity.”. Spanish chef Jose Andrés said this Sunday that Israel was waging a “war against humanity” and that the April 1 attack by Israeli forces that ended the lives of seven aid workers from his NGO, World, was “inexcusable”. Central Kitchen (WCK). “It's no longer about the seven men and women of WCK who died in that unfortunate event. It's been going on for too long. It's been six months since we hit anything that looks like it's moving,” Jose Andres said in an interview that aired this Sunday on ABC's This Week.
● Al Sisi receives the head of the CIA in Cairo before resuming negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns in Cairo this Sunday before resuming talks between parties and mediators on a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostage-to-prisoner exchange. The meeting discussed the joint efforts of Egypt, Qatar and the United States to establish a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the need to “intensify efforts to calm the situation and halt military escalation”. Egyptian presidential spokesman Ahmed Fahmy. The head of Egypt's government information service, Thea Rashwan, announced that the number of trucks with food, medical aid and emergency supplies that can enter the Gaza Strip will be increased to at least 300 a day starting this Sunday. Report. With the decision, Cairo wants to “accelerate the transfer of humanitarian aid” to the Strip to “address the grave crisis”.
● Israeli opposition leader meets Blinken today amid crisis between Biden and Netanyahu. Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid will hold a meeting this Sunday with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and other senior White House officials after visiting Washington last night, according to his party Yesh Atid. X account. Before his departure, Lapid took part in a new anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv on Saturday, which will be repeated in Jerusalem today.
● Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at Israel in response to the attack in northeastern Lebanon. Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah – the Middle East's most prominent paramilitary organization – announced on Sunday that it had launched a barrage of rockets against military bases in Israeli territory in response to a Jewish state offensive against northeastern Lebanon. “In response to enemy attacks in the Bekaa region (northeast), anti-Islamic militants targeted two military bases at 11:10 a.m., one in Yeovil and the other identified as Gila in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. “With dozens of Katyushas. -type rockets,” the movement pointed out in a brief statement.
● US says it destroyed Houthi missile in Yemen. Yesterday, US forces destroyed a mobile surface-to-air missile system on territory in Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels, the US Central Command (CENTCOM), which coordinates US military operations in the Middle East, announced this Sunday.
● Cameron warns UK support for Israel is “not unconditional”.. British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Sunday that the United Kingdom's support for Israel in the Gaza crisis is “not unconditional” and that the country must comply with international humanitarian law. The former Conservative prime minister, in an article published in The Sunday Times, warns that Israel has the right to defend itself and that the United Kingdom supports that defense against the threat posed by the Islamist terrorist group Hamas, but “support [del Reino Unido] It is not unconditional.
