The Israeli Army continues to attack the Gaza Strip by air and land this Thursday, April 25, where at least 43 people died in the last 24 hours alone, while the total number of fatalities amounts to 34,305, the local Ministry of Health reported in the last hours. Meanwhile, Khalil al-Hayya, leader of Hamas, maintained that the Islamist group is willing to lay down its arms, but in exchange for Israel allowing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
At least ““five massacres against Palestinian families” were perpetrated by the Israeli Army in the last 24 hours, which left 43 people deadaccording to the Gaza Ministry of Health this Thursday, April 25.
In addition, around 64 people were injured. The total number of fatalities as the war approaches its seventh month rose to 34,305, added the health authorities of the enclave, controlled by Hamas.
Among the people who died on Wednesday, April 24, is journalist Mohamed Basam al Yamal, from the news agency Falestin Alan (Palestine Now), in a bombing by Israeli forces against his home in Rafah, one of his brothers confirmed to EFE.
According to figures from local authorities, with his murder, The number of reporters killed in the enclave increases to 141 since Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the ongoing war, on October 7, in response to the surprise attack by Hamas that left around 1,200 dead in Israeli territory.
The troops of the Jewish-majority State continue their siege, while preparing for the announced offensive in Rafah, in the far south, where Around 1.4 million people are taking refuge, more than half of the entire population of 2.3 million inhabitantsnow internally displaced.
Approximately 20 bodies of people we believe were buried alive
While the Netanyahu Government maintains that a ground incursion there is “necessary” to eliminate the last strongholds of Hamas, new information is known about the discovery of mass graves that have been discovered in recent days in the courtyard of the Nasser hospitalextinct due to ongoing attacks and located in Khan Younis, the main southern city of the enclave.
At least 20 – of the 310 bodies found – may have been “buried alive”Mohammed Mughier, a member of the Palestinian Civil Defense, said this Thursday, quoted by the Arab network 'Al Jazeera'.
“We need a forensic examination of approximately 20 bodies of people who we believe were buried alive,” Mughier said.
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The official also indicated that Some of the bodies found in mass graves belong to children.
“Why do we have children in mass graves?” questioned Mughier, who showed photographs and videos of the remains, with which, he claims, Israeli soldiers committed these “crimes against humanity.”
Hamas, ready to lay down its arms if a Palestinian state is established
Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official, said during an interview with the AP news agency that the Islamist group is willing to accept a truce of five years or more with Israel, lay down arms and become a political party if a Palestinian state is established, along the borders before the 1967 war.
These territories include the West Bank, with areas occupied by Israel and with limited control by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, disputed by both Israelis and Palestinians as its capital, although the entire city is controlled. for Israel.
“All the experiences of the people who fought against the occupiers, when they became independent and obtained their rights and their State, what have these forces done? They have become political parties and their defending fighting forces have become the national army,” al-Hayya declared.
However, he stressed that the military wing of the movement would disappear if his proposal were achieved.
![Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official who has represented the Palestinian militant group in negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday April 24, 2024.](https://s.france24.com/media/display/1b310ace-0300-11ef-84ab-005056bfb2b6/HAM%C3%81S%201.jpg)
The ALP, led by Mahmud Abbas, also calls for the formation of a Palestinian state in those territories. But while the international community overwhelmingly supports the two-state solution, Israel has for years rejected it on security grounds, while continuing to build settlements in areas claimed by the Palestinians for the state they long for.
An objective that has become more of a dream, in the face of strong opposition from the nation backed by the United States and that is even more complicated under the current Government of Benjamin Netanyahu, the most far-right in the country's history.
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Over the years, Hamas has been officially committed to the “destruction of Israel.”
He has at times moderated his public position regarding the possibility of a Palestinian state alongside the modern Middle Eastern country, but his political program still officially “rejects any alternative to the total liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea,” referring to the area extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, which includes lands that now form Israel.
The solution is to reach consensus
The leader of the Islamist group also refuted the statements of the Israeli Government that during the ongoing war has declared that it has abolished a large part of the Hamas structure and that it will continue its offensive until it completely “eliminates” that movement that has controlled Gaza since 2007.
Israeli forces “have not destroyed more than 20% of (Hamas') capabilities, neither human nor on the ground (…) If they cannot finish (Hamas), what is the solution? The solution is to reach consensus,” he said.
His statements come amid a stalemate in talks for a new ceasefire, after the one-week truce reached at the end of 2023.
With AP and EFE
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