Gaza: Tens of thousands of Palestinians blocked the road on Sunday allowing them to return home to northern Gaza, expressing their frustration after Israel accused Hamas of raping a cease-fire agreement and refused to open passage points.
In the aftermath of a second exchange of Israeli hostages detained in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, this robbery stressed the risks that weigh on the break between the militant group and Israel, long -standing opponents in a series of wars in Gaza.
In the center of Gaza, columns of people were waiting along the main roads leading to the north, some in vehicles and others on foot, witnesses said.
“A sea of people awaits a signal to return to the city of Gaza and the North,” said Tamer al-Burai, a displaced person from the city of Gaza. “This is the agreement that was signed, isn’t it?”
“Many of these people do not know if their house is still standing. But they want to leave anyway, they want to install their tents next to the rubble of their houses, they want to feel at home, “he told Reuters via a cat application.
On Sunday, witnesses said that many people had slept at night on the road to Salahuddin, the main artery going from north to south and on the coastal road leading to the north, while waiting to go beyond the Israeli military positions in the Corridor of Netzarim which crosses the center of the Gaza Strip.
Managers of Al-Awda Hospital said that a Palestinian had been killed and 15 others injured by Israeli fire, fired by soldiers who apparently tried people from approaching too close to the road Coastal. The Israeli army made no comments immediately.
The cars, trucks and ripens were overloaded with mattresses, food and tents that served as shelters for more than a year for the inhabitants of the central and southern areas of the enclave.
Under the terms of the agreement developed with the Egyptian and Qatari mediators supported by the United States, Israel was supposed to allow the displaced Palestinians to return home.
But Israel said that Hamas’ inability to put a detailing list which hostages whose liberation was planned were alive or to put Arbel Yehud, an Israeli taken hostage during the attack on Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023 , meant that he had violated the agreement.
Consequently, the control points in the center of Gaza will not be opened to allow the passages to the north, he said in a press release. Hamas has published a statement accusing Israel of being responsible for delay and procrastinating.
“Demolition site”
On Saturday, American President Donald Trump ordered the US military to drop 2,000 pound bombs that his predecessor Joe Biden had ordered not to deliver to Israel because of their impact on the civilian population of Gaza.
He also called on Egypt and Jordan to welcome more Palestinians from Gaza, temporarily or permanently, and said that “we should simply end it”.
“It is literally a demolition site, almost everything is demolished and people die there,” he told journalists after an appeal with King Abdallah of Jordan.
Reacting to these remarks, an official of Hamas, the Palestinian militant group who heads Gaza, echoes the Palestinian fears longtime to be definitively driven out of their homes.
Palestinians “will not accept any offer or solution, even if (such offers) seem to have good intentions under the guise of reconstruction, as announced in the proposals of the American president Trump,” said Basem Naim, member of the Hamas Political Bureau . Reuters.
Many Palestinians blocked on the roads leading to the north also rejected the solution proposed by Trump.
“If he thinks he will force the Palestinian people, then it is impossible, impossible, impossible. The Palestinian people firmly believe that this land belongs to him, that this soil is his soil, ”said Magdy Seidam.
“No matter how much Israel is trying to destroy, break and show the people that he has won, in reality, they did not win. »»
The Israeli army warned the Palestinians not to approach his positions in Gaza and said that the soldiers had shot several times, but said “for the moment, we are not aware of ‘No damage caused to suspects following these shots. ”
