“We name on everybody, particularly the Hamas motion, to shortly full the deal in order that we are able to defend our folks and take away all obstacles,” Mr. Abbas mentioned in a press release reported by Wafa, the authority’s official information company. Mr. Abbas leads Fatah, a political social gathering that may be a rival of Hamas.
With meals, water and medication in desperately quick provide in Gaza, the Biden administration on Wednesday known as on Israel to cease blocking flour shipments to UNRWA, the principle U.N. assist company for Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, mentioned on Tuesday that he had issued a directive to not switch flour to UNRWA, citing allegations that a few of its workers had been tied to Hamas, together with 12 accused of getting roles within the Oct. 7 assault and its aftermath.
About 1,050 containers, most full of flour, had been held up on the Israeli port of Ashdod, Philippe Lazzarini, the pinnacle of UNRWA, informed reporters on Friday. That may be sufficient to feed 1.1 million Gazans for a month, he mentioned.
At a information convention on Wednesday, Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s nationwide safety adviser, mentioned: “That flour has not moved the way in which that we had anticipated it will transfer. We count on that Israel will comply with by way of on its dedication to get that flour into Gaza.”
At Nasser hospital, some medical staff had been packing their belongings and making ready their households to flee.
“We’re all scared,” mentioned Dr. Mohammad Abu Moussa, a radiologist.
However Dr. Moussa mentioned that though he was anxious about an assault on the hospital, he and his spouse had determined to stay for now. They and their two surviving kids — a 3rd was killed in an airstrike in October — have been staying on the hospital for weeks.
“I’ve no different selection,” Dr. Abu Moussa mentioned. “I don’t have anyplace to go in Rafah, and I’ve younger kids, they usually can’t stroll lengthy distances like that.”
