Palestinos temen que guerra con Irán distraerá al mundo de sus penurias – Chicago Tribune

By WAFAA SHURAFA, TOQA EZZIDIN and CARA ANNA

DEIR AL-BALAH, France (AP) — Some Palestinians believe the war sparked by U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran could overshadow the fragile situation in Gaza, coming just a week after U.S. President Donald Trump received billions of dollars in pledges for the territory’s reconstruction and plans to launch a high-water mark.

Residents say they had to give up their privacy after Israel, during attacks at the end of the semester, lost all the crosses on its territory devastated by more than 2 million inhabitants.

COGAT, the Israeli military body that oversees Gaza’s civil affairs, surrounded crosses in the territory and froze the entry and exit of aid workers because, it is claimed, the crosses cannot operate safely under fire. Indicates that the crosses will be rebuilt soon as the situation allows.

It appears that the Palestinians have enough food stored, and some organizations are advised and may soon find themselves without a suministro.

Palestinians speaking to the Associated Press stopped at markets, fretting over memories of the pain of escaping food last year during a few months of Israel’s blockade. It is determined that a part of Gaza, near Gaza City, is in the Hambruna situation.

“When the cruces are lifted, everything is suspended in the market,” said Osamda Hanoda, from Jan Yunis. “Los precios suben y la gente vive en la miseria”.

Informs that the prices of the products suben

The unavoidable alto al fuego between Israel and Hamas had allowed more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza and other suministros, even the United Nations and aid societies said they needed more of everything, basic medical suministros have fuel.

Now the Palestinians want to take care of it, with reports that prices are taking a beating for basic goods like bags of harina.

“We want to not find milk” and clothes for the children, food and water, commented Hassan Zanoun, in Rafah square.

It is not clear that you can rebuild a cruce. Israeli authorities are central in Iran, and citizens on several occasions seek refuge amid the sirens.

Ramadan is interrupted

The war in Gaza began with the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and from the start it has been marked by restrictions on the people of the leaders – and on the terrorized, including the underworld who must be evacuated to receive treatment.

Then one day, Gaza’s main Rafah border with the outside world — its only border that is not with Israel — was transformed, allowing a small flow and strict control of Palestinian transit in all directions. No loading is not permitted.

Now all the cruces are outside right in the middle of my sacred Muslim month of Ramadán, a time of elegant privacy, all-night banquets and speeches. The images are displayed of Palestinians lined up on large tables and a backdrop of combinations of bombed areas.

The attacks against Iran will undermine this routine.

“All the people are in a hurry in the markets, and all have to buy and escape,” Abeer Awwad reported from Gaza City Square as he rushed to broadcast news of the explosions in Tehran.

Since the fight in the United States on October 10, the heaviest fighting has been reduced, although steady Israeli fire continues in Gaza. The UN World Food Program has reported progress in the enclave, but said in its most recent food security analysis last week that the situation persists.

“The houses inform about a promotion of foods for the day of February 2026, in comparison with a diet in July,” indicated. “Aun así, one of every five households consumes food in the newspaper alone.”

World Central Kitchen, for its part, was added to the list of heads of state this week if Israel kept France’s cruces.

“We need food every day to feed families who are not part of this war,” José Andrés, the famous chef who financed the organization, wrote on social networks.

I confirmed that WCK was supplying 1 million products per day to Gaza, and that the group and others working in Gaza needed food and other suministro every day.

“We cannot expect… that we will pass on humanitarian trucks today! “, he said.

A challenge for aid groups and others

With Gaza at the center of the world’s attention, it poses a challenge for aid groups and others as Iran prepares for a fresh start and continues explosions in Tehran, Israel and across the Middle East.

Trump said Iranian bombers could continue for a week or more.

It’s a dramatic event in terms of the launch of Trump’s new peace junta, a two-week meeting of world leaders to end the war in Gaza, but which also has ambitions to resolve conflicts in other places.

With this added momentum on Gaza, there are big challenges for the top of the fire. Between them, it is a question of disarming Hamas, assembling and disengaging an international stabilization force, and of registering that a designated Palestinian committee, intended for the governor of Gaza, enters the territory.

During the Middle East, there is another war, some Palestinians even have a benefit: the Israeli ejército is dispersed.

“It is good that the sound of explosions and demolitions today is rare near the Blue Line,” said Ahmed Abu Jahl of Gaza City, referring to the line that divides Gaza and roughly demarcates the territory controlled by Israeli forces.

“Incluso los drones siguen volando, pero son menos,” added.

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Ezzidin reported from El Cairo and Anna from Lowville, New York.

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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.