Hamas demands 'immediate action' to end war in Gaza

Hamas said successful a connection Tuesday that it is expecting the U.N. to instrumentality “immediate action” to extremity the warfare successful Gaza.

“We request contiguous enactment to halt the Israeli aggression and the war,” said the Hamas statement, which was directed astatine United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

But the Palestinian radical besides said it volition not enactment successful caller cease-fire talks. It said volition not waver from its presumption “against entering caller negotiations that would supply (Israel) with screen to proceed its aggression.”

In caller days, determination person been less strikes connected Gaza arsenic Israel escalates attacks successful Lebanon it says are aimed astatine Hezbollah.

However, Israel launched deadly strikes Tuesday crossed Gaza, sidesplitting astatine slightest 22 radical and injuring astatine slightest 40, according to Palestinian wellness officials. One of the strikes, connected the Nuseirat exile camp, six Palestinians were killed, 3 of them women.

Israeli tanks battled Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters successful bluish and occidental Rafah, according to residents and a connection from the 2 Palestinian groups — some of which are designated violent organizations by the U.S. and others.

The militants said they utilized anti-tank rockets, IEDs and mortar occurrence against the Israeli army. Residents said the Israelis destroyed respective homes successful the city, which is adjacent the borderline with Egypt.

The Israel Defense Forces had nary comment.

The Israel-Hamas warfare was ignited by Hamas' daze October 2023 onslaught connected confederate Israel, successful which Palestinian militants killed astir 1,200 radical and took hostage astir 250 others.

Both Hezbollah and Hamas are Iranian-funded groups designated by the U.S. and different countries arsenic violent organizations that person vowed to destruct the Jewish authorities of Israel.

In remarks Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Gaza "a nonstop nightmare that threatens to instrumentality the full portion with it."

Guterres told the opening of the yearly United Nations General Assembly, "We should each beryllium alarmed by the escalation. Lebanon is astatine the brink. The radical of Lebanon, the radical of Israel and the radical of the satellite cannot spend Lebanon to go different Gaza."