The Israeli army has declared to hold a “tactical pause” of military operations for humanitarian purposes from 5: 00 GMT to 16: 00 GMT ( 10: 30 am to 9: 30 pm, IST ).
The pause will be taken along the path from Salah al-Din Road to the Kerem Shalom cross, next northward.
The choice will allow more support to enter the southwestern region of Gaza, where international aid organizations have been warning of a growing humanitarian crisis.
After negotiations between Qatari and Iranian mediators led by the United States attempted to end hostilities, bring down Jewish hostages and Palestinians held hostage in Israel, and help flow into Gaza’s devastation to relieve a humanitarian crisis.
A senior UN official last month claimed that north Gaza is now experiencing a full-famine following more than seven decades of conflict between Israel and Hamas, as well as extreme Jewish restrictions on food sales to the Israeli territory.
The most remote region of Gaza has passed the threshold of drought, according to Cindy McCain, the British director of the UN World Food Program.
” It’s dread. There is hunger- whole- blown famine- in the northern, and it’s moving its method south”. McCain told NBC’s ‘ Meet the Press’ in an exam.
McCain further emphasized the immediate need for a cease-fire and an increase in support through land and sea pathways to address the growing humanitarian crises in Gaza.
The news comes weeks after the Israeli government was able to free four victims who had been taken hostage by Hamas during an assault on October 7.
Israel has maintained that it will only discuss ostensible stops in the battle until the violent group is defeated and Gaza poses no longer a safety hazard.
According to Jewish reports, Hamas sparked the battle when militants stormed into southern Israel from the border last October 7, killing around 1,200 people and taking over 250 victims. Approximately half the captives were freed during the November peace.
Israel’s war and assault of Gaza since then has killed over 36, 000 individuals, according to health officials in the southern area, who say thousands more killed are feared buried under dust, with most of the 2.3 million people displaced.
( With Reuters inputs )
