‘Upsurge’ in fighting in northern Gaza weeks after Israeli forces began withdrawing • FRANCE 24

And for more we cross to Jerusalem and correspondent Iris Marler Iris talk of a new phase but a lot of fighting this Tuesday that’s right because I guess the truth is that while war is extremely dangerous the the problem comes when War appears to be over and then isn’t over

Then it’s both confusing dangerous and treacherous and I think that’s what we’re seeing on the ground right now Israel had began withdrawing troops from the north of the Gaza STP at the turn of the new year uh thousands of troops were withdrawn fighting was concentrated in the center and in the South nevertheless

Today we saw an upsurge in violence um both fighting in the north of the Gaza Strip we saw civilians Palestinian civilians who said you know we were planning to return to our homes there and thank God we didn’t because it was an onslaught such as we haven’t heard

From right back at the beginning of the first phase uh back at the end of October so you know know there’s been that resumption of fighting and at the same time we saw a slew of rockets a barrage of rockets coming into Israel from the north of the Gaza Strip so the

Place appears to be empty Israeli troops appear to have withdrawn and nevertheless there’s there’s fighting there and um the Hamas ran Health Ministry has reported 158 deaths today you know I’m sure they include combatants but nevertheless that’s a significant number and that’s when troops have withdrawn so you see two

Things happening at once for once a while one is that when there’s a vacuum it’s filled so Palestinians are trickling back to their homes prepared to live if they exist or even to rebuild the other is that um the authorities are trickling back and that includes Hamas

We’ve heard reports from two sources now that Hamas is returning to run hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip you know if that’s right then what was this whole fight about from Israel’s point of view yeah and meanwhile uh Israel which is still not or its government still not

Spelling out a a a plan for uh how to make that transition to some kind of a new Palestinian Authority and that’s stoking tensions with Washington that’s right it’s a problem in and of itself because you know nature abhor a vacuum and if you’re not going

To set up a new Authority then the old Authority can just come back or ordinary Palestinians can come back and they still are controlled by Hamas um who I’ve just seen a report are still building their tunnels the other thing is because um Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to discuss

What form this will take this day after in Gaza which day after appears to already be here in some measure uh it’s stoking huge tensions with Washington during the first phase of the war Biden the US president and Netanyahu the Israeli Prime Minister spoke um every

Three 3 to four days they haven’t spoken for more than 3 weeks and that expresses uh the um American I think displeasure anger I’ve read different versions of this in various reports out of the US and I guess it just depends how irritated they get with Netanyahu

Because they have lots of Leverage they can decide not to support Israel in the United Nations they can decide simply to send less ammunition and less Weaponry so all those options are open unless uh Benjamin Netanyahu finds a way back to making nice with Washington

An upsurge in fighting was reported on Tuesday in northern Gaza, an area Israeli forces began withdrawing from around the start of the new year. Amid an ‘onslaught’ that recalled the first phase of Israel’s ground invasion, Palestinian civilians who planned to return to their homes in north Gaza said they are thankful they did not. FRANCE 24’s Irris Makler reports.
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22 comments

  7. still don't understand why Western media keeps sending useless reporters to Israel since they can't even enter Gaza and/or show anything from the conflict zones…they don;t even report on the escalation of violence againts Palestinians in East Jerusalem or the West …why are you there for??

  9. Reporting about Gaza but why are you in Jerusalem.
    Why not from inside Gaza, or at least from Egypt where you can see Rafah. Talk with people there.
    Afraid you might report the truth?

  11. Yahoo, was acting like a angry woman and didn't think beyond his emotional connotations but saw a window to manifest his heart, which was a cup of hell . We see that was not good thinking outside of his head 😂

  13. The world is blind!!! They forgot how Palestinians were filmed dancing after the attack on the World Trade Center. That wasn’t about a land wasn’t it ?

    Wake up people!!! We need to protect Israel at all costs!!!

    🇮🇱🇺🇸

  15. Only yesterday Israel withdrew troops (36th division) from the region where those rockets were shot from today!

    This is what happens every time Israel withdraws forces from the Gaza Strip – The "innocent palestinians" are launching rockets from

    the territories Israel gives them – targeting Israeli civilians – with the cheers and celebrations of the Gazan population.

    This is what has been happening since 2005, but the UN completely ignores it and blames Israel for "occupation".

  16. Truth is that after the Middle East war, when Israel made peace with Egypt, the Egyptians insisted on getting back every last square inch of the Sinai peninsula, yet they were quite adamant not to take the Gaza strip back to their control. Which means, as they've made peace with Israel under these and no other conditions, that the Gaza strip is not Israeli occupied, but Israeli posession. Take over Gaza Israel 🇮🇱, it's your land.

  19. Give me a break "Hamas is running the hospitals in Gaza." She might as well said "Hamas is rebuilding the tunnels under the hospitals…" Shame on this female "reporter". 😂😂😂

  20. Beautiful, the leftists and humanitarians pro-Palestinians are demanding cease fire from Israel, and when Hamas proves to them that it isn't Israel they should demand cease fire from, then the same brainrotten leftist pro-Palestinians are blaming Israel anyway.

    Hamas just proved to you, that even if Israel succumb to your ignorant demand of ceasefire, Hamas will just keep on killing people. But you knew that, right? You don't care, what you really demand is for Israel to accept to be killed by Hamas and the Palestinians to be oppressed by Hamas.

    And you're supposed to be the "moral" ones. Sickening.

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