The Israeli official says that Gaza will be

Israel’s Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, said Tuesday that a victory for Israel in Gaza would mean that the Palestinian territory “completely destroyed” before its inhabitants go out to other countries.

“Gaza will be completely destroyed, civilians will be sent to … the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will begin to leave third countries in large quantities,” said the senior official of the brand of fire at a conference on Jewish settlement in West Bank approached from Israel.

Israel’s plan to take control of Gaza’s strip It has caused renewed fears, but for many of the residents of the territory, the most immediate existential threat remains the spectrum of the famine in the midst of an Israeli block of months in all the goods that enter the enclave, which is the home of more than 2 million people.

The plan to expand military operations, approved by the Israel Security Cabinet on Sunday night, includes sustaining territories in the strip of Gaza besieged and moving the population to the south “for their protection”, according to Israeli officials.

But Gaza residents told the News news agency that they didn’t expect the New offensive would make significant changes in the already serious humanitarian situation In the small coastal territory.

“Israel has not stopped war, murder, bombing, destruction, siege and hunger, every day, how can they talk about the expansion of military operations?” Awni Awad, 39, told News.

Awad, who lives in a tent in the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza after being displaced by Israeli evacuation orders, said his situation was already “catastrophic and tragic.”

“I ask the world to witness the famine that grows and spreads every day,” he said.

The UN World Food Program at the end of April said he had exhausted all his food stocks in Gaza due to Israel’s blockade in all supplies since March 2.

Aya Al-Skafy, a resident of the city of Gaza, told News that his baby died due to the shortage of malnutrition and medicine last week.

“I was four months old and weighed 2.8 kilograms (6.2 pounds), which is very little. Medicine was not available,” he said. “Due to severe malnutrition, he suffered blood acidity, liver and renal insufficiency, and many other complications. His hair and nails also fell due to malnutrition.”

Umm Hashem al-Saqqa, another resident of the city of Gaza, fears that his 5-year-old son can face a similar destination, but he does not have to be able to do something about it.

“Hashem suffers from iron deficiency anemia. It is constantly pale and lacks balance, and cannot walk due to malnutrition,” he told News. “There are no food, medicine or nutritional supplements. Markets are empty of food and government clinics and pharmacies have nothing.”

Israeli officials have denied a hunger crisis in Gaza,

The resident of the city of Gaza, Mohammed al-Shawa, 65, said that Israel’s new military roadmap changes little, since it already controls most of Gaza.

“The Israeli announcement about the expansion of military operations in Gaza is just to speak through the media, because the entire Gaza Strip is busy, and there is no safe area in Gaza,” he said.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian AFFIRSCB estimates that 69% of Gaza has now been incorporated into one of Israel’s damping areas, or is subject to evacuation orders.

That number increases 100% in the Southern Government of Rafah, where more than 230,000 people lived before the war but has now been completely declared a non-log area.

“There is no food, or medicine, and the announcement of a help distribution plan is only to distract the world and deceive global public opinion,” Shawa said, referring to the reports of a new Israeli plan for the delivery of humanitarian aid that has not yet been implemented.

“The reality is that Israel is killing the Palestinians in Gaza by bombarding, shooting or through hunger and denial of medical treatment,” he said.

Israeli officials constantly blame Hamas, who for a long time has been designated as a terrorist group by Israel, the United States and the European Union, for all suffering in Gaza, accusing him of stealing humanitarian aid for his own purposes, which the group denies.

The Minister of Defense of the Hard Line of Israel, Israel Katz, said in mid -April, approximately one month after the blockade, that the policy aimed at pressing Hamas to capitulate and free the hostages would not change.

“Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and block this help is one of the main pressure levers that prevents Hamas from using it as a tool with the population,” he said. “No one currently plans to allow any humanitarian aid in Gaza, and there are no preparations to allow such help.”

That was followed on April 23 by a flat denial of the Israeli Foreign Ministry of any hunger crisis in Gaza.

“Israel is monitoring the situation in the field, and there is no shortage of help in Gaza,” said Ministry spokesman Oren Marorstein in a statement published in social networks, rejecting accusations that Israel was using food as a gun of collective punishment against the civilian population of Gaza.

“According to article 23 of the Fourth Convention of Geneva, a team is not obliged to allow help if it is” likely to help the enemy’s military or economic efforts, “said Marmorstein.” Hamas kidnapped humanitarian aid to rebuild his terrorist machine. “

Smotrich praised the new Plan for Gaza on Monday and evoked a proposal previously floated by President Trump to displace residents of the territory in other places.

He said that he would boost the completion of the plan until “Hamas is defeated, Gaza is completely occupied and Trump’s historical plan is implemented, with Gaza refugees reapted in other countries.”

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