Israel orders total blockade of Gaza Strip

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced on Monday the order for a total blockade on the Gaza Strip, meaning the Palestinian enclave will be left without electricity, food and fuel supplies, amid a war between Israel and the Islamist militant organization, considered terrorist by Israel, the United States, the European Union, the European Union, the United States, the United States, the European Union, the United States, the European Union, the United States, the United States, the European Union United Kingdom and other powers.” Gaza will be under total lockdown. We are fighting barbaric terrorists and we will respond accordingly, there will be no electricity, food or fuel,” Gallant announced on the third day of the offensive launched against Israel that has already left more than 1,000 dead. Some 2.3 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country was at war and Hamas would pay a heavy price to its enemies. The movement, for its part, said it launched the operation tired of the blockade that Israel has imposed on Gaza since 2007 and to avenge Israeli military incursions in the West Bank, the occupation and colonization of those territories that Palestinians claim to found their state and the desecration of Islamic holy sites in the Old City of East Jerusalem. Its leaders said they were prepared for further escalation. In Europe, the EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, summoned the bloc’s foreign ministers to an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss the situation in the Middle East. I convene for tomorrow an emergency meeting of EU Foreign Ministers to address the situation in Israel and in the region,” the diplomat announced on the X network, formerly Twitter.

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