Israel to completely siege Gaza cutting off food, fuel, electricity and water supplies

Israeli air strikes killed 576 Palestinians while 3100 Palestinians injured
Hamas resistance killed 800 Israelis while 2900 Israelis injured since Oct 7

Israel’s defence minister orders a complete siege of the Gaza Strip and the cutting off of food, fuel, electricity and water supplies to Gaza after Hamas carried out the biggest attack on the country in decades.

The Israeli military has gathered nearly 100,000 reserve troops near Gaza Strip in a bid to regain control of a desert near the embattled border, sparking fears of a ground invasion of the besieged territory.Israeli air strikes on 800 targets ahead of what many feared may be a looming ground invasion.

Israeli airstrikes have shut the only functioning hospital in Gaza’s Beit Hanoun neighborhood.Extensive damage caused by continuous Israeli airstrikes blocked medical teams’ ability to enter or exit the building, the health ministry said.

Gaza has a population of about 2.3 million people living in one of the most densely populated areas in the world. The enclave is under Israeli blockade since 2007.

Israel has maintained strict control over Gaza’s airspace and territorial waters and restricted the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza.

Following Hamas’s attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to turn Gaza into a “deserted island” and warned its residents to “leave now”.

Emergency meeting at United Nations of no avail

An emergency United Nations Security Council meeting Sunday failed to unanimously take a position against Hamas, a setback to the US and Israel, as Russia and China urge the members to take a broader view of the situation to resolve the decades-long crisis after Palestinian resistance group struck heavily on Tel Aviv Saturday.

The Russian ambassador to the UN said, “My message was to stop the fighting immediately and to go to a ceasefire and to meaningful negotiations, which was told for decades.”

“This is partly the result of unresolved issues,” he said.