Gaza | The number of dead in Gaza is increasing – Also the US soldier is now in critical condition

of Israel strikes on Gaza killed at least sixty Palestinians on Thursday, various Palestinian sources claimed, according to Reuters.

All the numbers are disputed, but what is clear is that Israel’s attack on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza accelerated as its tanks penetrated deeper into the outskirts of the city from at least two directions.

According to both sides, the fighters of Hamas, the extremist organization that ruled Gaza, have resisted both in Rafah and, for example, in the Jabalia refugee camp in the central parts of Gaza.

Thursday it was also reported that one US soldier was in critical condition after being injured at sea, and two US soldiers were slightly injured on a ferry south-west of Gaza City. These injuries, according to the United States, were not combat-related.

The US set up a temporary ferry from the sea to carry aid to Gaza earlier this month. Getting humanitarian aid into southern Gaza is extremely difficult because of the fighting, and the UN has warned of “famine” and “apocalyptic destruction” in the region.

of Israel according to it, by attacking Rafah, it has been able to kill 180 Hamas terrorists and destroy the organization’s infrastructure, such as the tunnel network.

At the same time, hundreds of thousands of civilians in the area are in danger.

Israel started the airstrikes further north, when it ordered the residents of the area to evacuate further south. When we hit the south, according to the UN, more than 800,000 Gazans have tried to escape further away from Rafah in accordance with Israel’s current instructions.

There is also fighting in the central parts of Gaza. It makes providing food and other basic needs to the evacuees even more challenging.

Due to the large number of civilians, the US, which is a major aid to Israel, had asked Israel to refrain from attacking Rafah.

This had no effect.

Israel has blockaded Gaza since 2007 and Egypt participates in the blockade.

On October 7, Hamas, which controls Gaza, launched a bloody surprise attack that killed more than 1,100 Israelis and took about 250 hostages.

The number of Palestinian casualties is disputed, but the UN has stated that it believes the Gaza Health Ministry’s estimates of more than 35,000 people dead in Israeli strikes as reliable.

On Monday of this week, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced that he would seek an arrest warrant for three Hamas leaders and the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin to Netanyahu and to the Minister of Defense To Yoav Gallant.

They are all suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In addition to murders, the suspicions regarding the leaders of Hamas include hostage-taking and sexual violence. The leaders of Israel, on the other hand, are also suspected of starving the Palestinian population as part of the destruction of the population.

The arrest warrant proposal is under consideration by the judges of the International Criminal Court. If implemented, it could at least make it more difficult for the leaders of the parties to travel to the 124 member countries of the International Criminal Court.