Three rabbis and an American journalist, as well as three Israeli activists, have been arrested this Friday by the Israel Police when they were trying to cross the Erez Pass to take food into the Gaza Strip.
The arrests have been announced by the organization to which the religious belong, Rabbis for Peace, which identifies the American journalist as Ayelet Waldman.
In your X social network account, Rabbis for Peace denounces that “the Israeli Government is using hunger as a weapon of war against 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip”.
“This manufactured famine follows decades of forced displacement, military occupation and community subjugation by the Israeli government,” the activists add.
He Israel war cabinet approved the opening of the port at the beginning of the month Ashdod and the Erez Pass in the northern Gaza Strip as a measure to increase the flow of humanitarian aid, but these entries are subject to enormous restrictions.
Deaths increase due to Israeli bombings in Gaza
Last night, Israeli warplanes bombed a house of the Al Shawa family, in the Al Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, where rescue and ambulance teams recovered the bodies of three victims, including a child, from under the rubble. and a woman, Palestinian sources informed the WAFA news agency.
According to this medium, the victims and several injured were transported to the Al Ahli Arab Hospital, the last operating hospital in Gaza City, after the Israeli military siege left the one inoperative Al Shifa in March.
Bombings also occurred in the northern neighborhoods of Zaytun, south of Gaza City, and against a residential building on Al Wehda Street, in the center of the city, causing the death of another Gazan, as well as an unknown number of injuries. WAFA detailed.
*With information from EFE