Israel “tightens the siege” of Gaza as Hamas reviews Trump’s peace plan

Israel’s Defense Minister said his forces “tighten the siege” around the city of Gaza by expanding a military corridor across the territory to the shore.

Israel Katz also issued a final warning about the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the city to evacuate to the south, saying that those who remained during the offensive against Hamas would be “terrorists and supporters of the terror.”

Hospitals report that 45 people were killed by an Israeli fire in Gaza on Wednesday, while the International Red Cross Committee (ICC) said he had been forced to stop the operations there.

Israel is intensifying the attack as Hamas weighs his response to a new US plan to end war.

Arab and Turkish mediators are believed to press a positive answer, but a senior Hamas figure said the armed group would probably reject it.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) identified the city of Gaza as Hamas’s “last fortress”.

He said the offensive aims to ensure the release of the 48 hostages, still held by Hamas – 20 of which are thought to be alive – and guarantee the “decisive defeat of the group”.

Israel’s Defense Minister told Israeli media on Wednesday that the IDF “is currently completing the capture of the corridor in Netsarim to the west coast of Gaza” – a reference to the Israeli war zone, which moves east – west of the perimeter with Israel.

“This will tighten the siege around the city of Gaza and anyone who leaves it south will be forced to cross the IDF checkpoints,” quoted the Haarats newspaper, quoted by Kat.

He warned that this was “the last chance for Gaza residents (City), who are interested in moving south and leave the Hamas terrorists isolated in Gaza itself, against the backdrop of IDF, which continues with full force.”

“Those who remain in gas will be terrorists and supporters of terror,” he warned.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said that “according to international humanitarian law, civilians must be protected, whether they remain or leave the city of Gaza.”

He also stated that Israel as an occupation power was obliged to ensure that their main needs were satisfied, including through the protection of medical staff and the resolution of the rapid and unobstructed transition of humanitarian aid throughout the lane.

The ICC’s warning came in a statement that reported that intensification of military operations had forced to stop operations in its office in Gaza, where the civilians were said to have been “killed, forcibly displaced and made to withstand difficult conditions”.

“ICRC will continue to strive to provide support to civilians in Gaza, whenever circumstances allow for our offices in Deir al -Bala and Rafa (in the central and southern gas) that remain fully working,” the statement said.

“This includes the provision of medical donations to the few other health care facilities in Gaza and to do everything possible to facilitate the movements of the first responses.”

Also on Wednesday, the IDF spokesman announced that people in southern Gaza would no longer be able to use the Al-Rashid coast to travel north to Gaza. The road will remain open to those who run south, he said.

The Hamas Government Office, run by Gaza, has condemned the decision, which he believes is “part of a continuing policy of suffocation, siege and genocide made by the occupation (Israel) against our Palestinian people in the strip.”

IDF has ordered the residents of Gaza to be evacuated to a certain “humanitarian region” in the area of ​​South Al Mavasi.

The Israeli media quoted IDF on Monday that about 800,000 people fled the city, as plans for the offensive were announced in August and that between 250,000 and 350,000 people remained.

However, the UN and its humanitarian partners said they had observed only 397,000 people passing to South Gaza since Saturday.

UNICEF spokesman James Elder told the BBC that during a recent visit to Gaza, he witnessed “multiple air strikes in a very short time” and a “mix of children who are cheating (s) completely exhausted women”.

“Anyone who can speak English would explain to me that staying in Gaza is not a choice, that they have no means to go south. They have no transport. After they get south, they know that there is no land and certainly they have no tent,” he said.

They also knew that the conditions in Al Mavasi were overcrowded and unhygienic and that it was not spared by the Israeli strikes, he added.

“They saw what shrapnel was doing on a tent. They saw tents swallowed up by flames. So they are well aware that safety, be it from heaven or disease on earth, certainly does not exist.”

Media said 29 of the killed in Gaza on Wednesday were brought to Al-Alii hospital, South Zeitun.

Video shot at night appeared to show four severely wounded men wearing high -visibility jackets who receive treatment in a tent there.

The Hamas Civil Defense Agency claims that a team of its paramedics and firefighters were “directly directed” by Israeli strike because they reacted to a strike at Al-Fala, used as a shelter for displaced families.

It says that rescuers did humanitarian work, carry uniforms and driving marked vehicles, and that the attack is a gross violation of international law.

Initially, the agency said seven rescuers were injured and two were in critical condition. She later announced that one of them, Mander Al Dahshan, died.

The Palestinian media reported that six people were killed at the initial strike at the school. A member of the civil defense said on social media that victims include children and posted a video of a severely injured boy lying in a hospital bed frame.

When asked to comment, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that they “hit a Hamas terrorist” and that “steps had been taken to soften the harm of civilians.”

The Israel government has approved plans for the Gaza offensive after the collapse of indirect negotiations with Hamas on a previous US proposal for a deal that it would see about half of the hostages published during a 60-day fire.

Arab and Turkish intermediaries meet with Hamas leaders in Qatar, putting pressure on them to accept the new peace plan for 20 points, discovered by President Donald Trump on Monday.

However, a senior figure of Hamas told the BBC that she had served the “interests of Israel” and that the group would probably reject it.

The plan includes an immediate termination of the war, the release of all hostages within 72 hours in exchange for nearly 2000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, as well as the disarmament of Hamas and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops.

Trump told reporters on Tuesday that Hamas leaders have “three or four days” to accept the conditions. Later, he warned that they would “pay in hell if they did not sign.”

In the meantime, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a government meeting that he had agreed to the plan as this has achieved all Israeli military goals.

However, it is said that the end minister of national security Itar Ben-Gvir called the Plan “Dangerous” and “full of holes”.