In the streets of Israel, shoulder rifles do not fail, in the streets of the West Bank there is no reluctance to talk about war, and in the streets of Gaza war does not fail. Israel reiterated this Tuesday that the offensive continues “with intensity.” All of Gaza is a front and the strip has reached 21,000 deaths since the crisis began almost three months ago, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. But yesterday, in addition, Israel detailed something else: that it fights on seven fronts.
“We are in a war with multiple scenarios and we are attacked from seven fronts: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria [through the West Bank], Iraq, Iran, Yemen and Iran,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told the committee. of Foreign Affairs and Defense.
The region adds uncertainty.
Because in the last few hours everything accelerates. The killing of a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Syria in an alleged Israeli attack increases tension with Iran. Hizbullah attacks northern Israel from Lebanon daily. In the Israeli area that borders Gaza, almost a hundred days of war do not prevent projectile alarms from sounding intermittently. Yesterday there were explosions in the Red Sea due to new missiles from the Houthis of Yemen and the United States confirms that it attacks groups aligned with Iran in Iraq.
Even India investigates an explosion near the Israeli embassy.
“We have already acted in six of the scenarios,” Minister Gallant summarized in his appearance. He then repeated what Prime Minister Beniamin Netanyahu has repeated every day: “This is a long and hard war.” This message has been insisted on since last weekend. And in Gaza no one doubts it.
The AP agency reported today that the Israeli Defense Forces have intensified their bombing in the center of the strip and ordered its residents to evacuate the area. The movement could indicate an apparent extension of the ground offensive to this area after previously seeing intense urban fighting in northern Gaza and in the south, in Khan Younis.
In the central area of ??Deir al Balah it has been overwhelmed with people. Rafah, in the south, the same. The UN points out that a quarter of the population is dying of hunger under Israel’s siege. And more than 85% of the Gazan population has been expelled from their homes.
The Israeli government, meanwhile, does not relent in its criticism of the UN. “They fail to condemn Hamas,” his spokesperson insisted to the press yesterday. His priority remains annihilating Hamas.
