Israel will not allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza unless Hamas agrees to release more hostages, one said.
"We will not allow Palestinians to return to their homes in northern Gaza if there is no progress in the release of the hostages," Axios News quoted a senior Israeli on Tuesday as saying. ”。
The United States expressed concern after senior Israeli ** recommended that Gazans be resettled in Israel and other countries outside the West Bank.
"Palestinian civilians must be able to return to their homes as soon as conditions allow," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a press conference in Doha on Sunday. ”。
Israel** is under increasing pressure to release the 136 hostages still being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The repatriation of Gazans to their homes could be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations for the release of the hostages.
According to the United Nations, about 85% of Gaza's population (1.9 million people) has been internally displaced during the current conflict, and most now live in extremely overcrowded makeshift shelters in the southern Palestinian enclave.
In accordance with international law, people evacuated from an area during hostilities must be allowed to return home after the cessation of fighting.
When asked about the return of internally displaced Gazans to their homes, an Israel** spokesman said that "there is no timetable".
The spokesman said that Israel wants to rebuild the Gaza Strip destroyed by IDF bombing while guaranteeing that Hamas will not send construction materials into construction infrastructure that could be used to attack Israel.
Cross-border fighting between Allah and Israel continued on Tuesday, raising fears of escalation.
Allah said on Tuesday that it had sent drones to attack an IDF military base in retaliation for Israel's recent assassination in Lebanon.
Allah said the drone hit a base in Safd in northern Israel, about eight miles from the border, in what appears to be Lebanon's further strikes at Israeli targets so far since cross-border hostilities erupted following the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
The IDF confirmed an attack on a base in the north, but did not want to disclose the location.