Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced this Monday that he ordered the total blockade of the Gaza Strip, which means that the Palestinian enclave will be without electricity, food and fuel supplies, in the midst of a war between Israel and the movement. Islamist Hamas.
“I have given an order: Gaza will be under a total closure.“ We are fighting barbaric terrorists and we will respond accordingly,” the minister said, according to a statement from his office.
“There will be no electricity, food or fuel” in the Strip from Israel, stressed Gallant, who is carrying out an evaluation of the operational situation in the Army’s Southern Command, together with the head of the Command, Yaron Finkelman.
Israel has maintained a blockade by air, land and sea on the Gaza Strip since 2007, when Hamas took control of the enclave that, with 2.2 million inhabitants, has a single power plant that requires fuel to operate and supply hospitals, homes. and shelters.
Israel declared itself in a state of war on Saturday, after Hamas launched an unprecedented multiple attack by land, sea and air, which took the country by surprise with the launch of thousands of rockets and ground incursions by militiamen on Israeli soil, where They have massacred and kidnapped dozens of Israelis.
Thus, Israel has responded with strong and constant bombings on the Strip, where 2.3 million Gazans live. often indiscriminately.
In two days of war, the deaths in Israel exceeded 700 and more than 2,200 injured, while the Gaza Strip registers at least 493 dead, including 91 children, and 2,751 injured, including 244 minors.
The Human Rights Watch organization denounced this Monday that Israel and Hamas “fail to comply with their legal obligations,” and described Israeli policies against the Ghatzi population as “illegal collective punishment, which is a war crime.”
(EFE)
