Israel has been relentlessly bombing Gaza since Hamas carried out attacks on October 7th. Photo: Menachem Kahana/AFP
Israel has «two» «three weeks» of fighting left in Gaza before international support for the war begins to wane, the country's top diplomat admitted on Monday.
Eli Cohen, Israeli Foreign Minister, said that the «diplomatic window»
“We feel that there is international pressure on Israel. It is not strong, but it is getting stronger,” Mr. Cohen said at a briefing with reporters, according to an Israeli correspondent for the news site Axios.
Anthony Blinken, the US secretary of state, said last week that “too many people have died” Palestinians, and French President Emmanuel Macron called on Israel to stop killing women and children in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, senior US officials have reportedly expressed concern to Israel that the war will spread to a new front on the border between Israel and Lebanon.
This comes after a telephone conversation on Saturday between Lloyd Austin, USA. Secretary of Defense and Yoav Gallant, Israel's Defense Minister.
Sources told Axios that members of the Biden administration are concerned that Israel is deliberately provoking Hezbollah to create a pretext for a broader war in Lebanon that could involve the United States .
“They will never be forgotten”
Mr. Cohen's warning is unlikely to make much difference because he is not part of the war cabinet that heads Israel's unity government, which makes key military decisions.
He said the world «recognizes that Israel will not stop until as long as the captives are released» because he believes the 240 hostages held by Hamas give Israel legitimacy among its allies to continue fighting now.
Flags were flown at half-staff at United Nations sites around the world on Monday, including at the organization's headquarters in New York, as staff stood silently in memory of more than 100 colleagues killed in the Gaza Strip during the war between Israel and Hamas. .
The blue and white UN flag was lowered at 9:30 a.m. local time at offices in Bangkok, Beijing and Tokyo. Other UN sites followed suit.
António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, led staff in a moment of silence at the organization's headquarters at 9:30 a.m. in New York.
«Since the start of this conflict, more than 100 UNRWA [United Nations] Relief and Works Agency staff have died — the highest number of UN staff killed in the conflict in such a short time,» he tweeted, along with a photo of somber senior officials UN, standing in silence.< /p>
«They will never be forgotten.»
«Significant number of deaths»
UNRWA announced on Friday that 101 of its staff have died in Gaza since the war began around months ago.
On Sunday, a day before a global tribute to the fallen staff, the UN reported a «significant number of deaths and injuries» as a result of attacks on a site in the Gaza Strip.
«UNRWA staff in the Gaza Strip appreciate that The UN is lowering the flag around the world,” Tom White, the agency's director for the Gaza Strip, said in the report. statement.
“However, in Gaza we must keep the UN flag flying high as a sign that we still stand and serve the people of Gaza.”
Israel has been relentlessly bombing Gaza since then as Hamas militants carried out an October 7 attack on communities in southern Israel, the deadliest in the country's history.
About 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Hamas attacks and about 240 were taken hostage. according to Israeli officials.
More than 11,000 people, most of them civilians and many of them children, have been killed in Gaza in Israeli retaliatory strikes, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
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