There will be new protests against Israel’s blockade of Gaza in many countries in the Middle East on Friday. Aid agencies are worried because hospitals in Gaza are running out of fuel, and they are concerned that necessary aid might be delayed in Egypt for another day.
The situation in Gaza is getting worse, so Israeli leaders are getting their troops ready for a possible ground attack. On Friday morning, they told around 23,000 people to leave their homes near the border with Lebanon.
In a speech from his office in the White House, US President Joe Biden restated that his government is dedicated to supporting Israel’s fight against Hamas. He emphasized that this support is crucial for America’s safety and compared it to Ukraine’s battle against Russia’s invasion.
However, he also warned the Israeli government not to let anger control their actions and emphasized that the well-being of innocent Palestinians should not be overlooked.
Biden’s support shows that Western allies and Arab countries have a growing disagreement. There are expected to be new protests on Friday in Arab countries in support of 2. 2 million Palestinians who are stuck in Gaza. This is making people worry that there could be a bigger conflict in the region.
Around 200 trucks filled with important supplies are waiting in line outside the closed border while officials try to come to an agreement to let them through. Workers worked on fixing dangerous road holes caused by Israeli bombing so that up to 20 trucks could pass. The negotiations about this continued until Thursday.
However, even though Biden and Egyptian officials said that aid would be given on Friday as scheduled, some sources told CNN that it might be postponed. A person from the US warned that the situation is constantly changing.
Life in Gaza is getting harder for many people as there is not enough food, water, medicine, and fuel.
A team of experts from the United Nations has accused Israel of committing serious crimes against humanity during its latest campaign.
The military operation taking place in Gaza, along with the difficult evacuation orders and forced population moves, breaks the rules of international law that protect people in times of conflict. The UN Human Rights Office stated on Thursday through a press release that it is incredibly cruel.
Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), said on Thursday that the main hospital in Gaza, called Al-Shifa Hospital, only has enough fuel to last for 24 hours.
Guillemette Thomas, a medical coordinator in Jerusalem, said that if there is no electricity, many patients will die. Many Palestinians are going to Al-Shifa hospital to stay safe because they are being bombed all the time.
Many stores don’t have any more food to sell, and people have to wait in long lines for hours to get food and water while bombs are being dropped nearby.
The number of people living in the southern part of Gaza has increased a lot recently. This happened because the Israeli military asked about one million people living in the northern part of Gaza to leave, as they were planning to invade that area.
The oldest church in Gaza is called St. X (ten). The Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in the center of Gaza City said that it was targeted by an Israeli airstrike on Thursday night.
The Hamas-run Ministry of Interior and National Security stated that an Israeli airstrike destroyed a building owned by the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, causing many people to get hurt.
The Israel Defense Forces admitted that they hit a church and caused damage while attacking a Hamas control center.
Israel has been continuously attacking Gaza because Hamas went on a killing spree on October 7, where they killed around 1,400 people in Israel. Most of the victims were innocent civilians. This event has been referred to as the most horrific mass killing of Jewish people since the Holocaust.
Since then, Israeli attacks have resulted in the deaths of over 3,700 individuals in Gaza, as reported by the Health Ministry in Gaza, which is under the control of Hamas. Hundreds of women and children have died.
There were thoughts and guesses about a potential ground invasion when Israel caught and arrested over 60 people believed to be part of Hamas on Thursday morning in the West Bank.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, spoke to troops who were near the Gaza Strip on Thursday. He told them that they will be “inside” the area soon and will see it for themselves.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to soldiers who are stationed in a different area next to the Gaza Strip, assuring them that the entire country supports them. We will hit our enemies hard to win. “Are you ready for victory. ” he asked
On Friday morning, CNN reporter Nic Robertson saw more soldiers and equipment near the border between Israel and Gaza.
I saw some light flares coming down in the distance. There were also red bullets being shot from a machine gun with a loud noise.
CNN doesn’t know what the military was doing at night.
Israeli warplanes have continuously bombed and destroyed many homes, causing hundreds of thousands of people to lose their homes. This has led to an increase in protests across the Middle East.
Egypt’s government-supported political parties and institutions have planned for protests across the country on Friday to show their support for Palestinians. This is unusual since Egypt has had strict laws against protests for the past ten years.
Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, said on Thursday that there is a real possibility of the Israel-Hamas war causing problems in nearby regions.
We have noticed that people in Arab countries are very angry, and this has happened in many places in the region. Hamas wanted this to happen. And this could ruin the recent and important improvement in relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors,” von der Leyen said during a speech at the Hudson Institute in Washington.
Protests against Israel became stronger this week after many Palestinians died on Tuesday in an explosion at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza.
Palestinian officials say that Israel attacked the hospital, but Israel says that this is not true. Israeli and US spies think that the explosion happened because a rocket from a different group in Gaza was shot in the wrong direction.
Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Iraq expressed their criticism towards Israel and accused its military of attacking the hospital.
There are protests against Israel increasing in the Middle East. People are worried that there could be more conflicts, especially on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. Hezbollah, a powerful group in Lebanon, has recently been fighting with Israel’s military.