While Arab and Muslim nations denounced the strike at a summit Monday, they stopped short of any major action targeting Israel, highlighting the challenge of diplomatically pressuring any change in Israel’s conduct in the grinding Israel-Hamas war
Palestinians search rubble following Israeli strikes in Gaza City. PIC/AFP
After a night of heavy airstrikes, the Israeli military said on Tuesday its expanded operation in Gaza City “to destroy Hamas infrastructure” has begun and warned residents to move south. Also on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio left Israel and arrived in the energy-rich nation of Qatar, where he planned to meet with its ruling emir as the nation is still incensed over Israel’s strike last week that killed five Hamas members and a local security official.
While Arab and Muslim nations denounced the strike at a summit Monday, they stopped short of any major action targeting Israel, highlighting the challenge of diplomatically pressuring any change in Israel’s conduct in the grinding Israel-Hamas war.
“We think we have a very short window of time in which a deal can happen,” Rubio said. After weeks of threatening an expansion of the Israeli military operation in Gaza City, Katz signalled it had begun. “Gaza is burning. The Israeli military is striking with an iron fist at the terrorist infrastructure and for the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas. We will not relent and we will not go back until the completion of the mission,” Katz said early on Tuesday morning.
Palestinian residents reported heavy strikes across Gaza City on Tuesday morning. The city’s Shifa Hospital said it received the bodies of 20 people killed in a strike that hit multiple houses in a western neighbourhood, with another 90 wounded arriving at the facility in recent hours.
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