Explosion 200 metres from Gaza parish. Father Romanelli: "We are fine" - Video
"There was an explosion about 200 metres from the parish". The parish priest of Gaza, Father Gabriel Romanelli, makes this known from his social channels by posting the moment of the explosion while the rosary was being prayed in the church. "Thank God we are OK," he reassures.
The news comes on the same day that Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Abdulrahman Al Thani, during a panel discussion at the Doha Forum, explained that in Gaza "what we have just done is a pause. We cannot consider it a ceasefire yet. A ceasefire cannot be completed without a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces, without there being stability in Gaza and people being able to come in and out, which is not possible today'. "We are at a critical moment," he added, pointing out that the mediating countries are "uniting to force the way to the next phase."
If we only resolve what happened in Gaza, the catastrophe of the last two years, it is not enough,' the Qatari sheikh said again, 'there is an underlying cause of this conflict. And this conflict is not just about Gaza. It is about Gaza. It is about the West Bank. It is about the Palestinians' rights to their state. We hope we can work with the US administration to realise this vision in the end'.
Rasan al Dahini is the new commander of the Gaza Palestine Popular Forces, the controversial Israeli-backed anti-Hamas militia in Rafah, who took over from Abu Shabab who was killed in a firefight in the Strip on Thursday. This was reported by Channel 12. Dahini, 39, a former jihadist, was Shabab's deputy and promised to continue fighting Hamas: 'I fight them, arrest their men, confiscate their equipment and drive them out.
I do what they deserve in the name of the people and free people," he stressed after releasing a video to "show that the Popular Forces continue to work," he said in an interview with the Israeli channel. "We will prepare the area for civilians, we will aim for an area where only the armed forces are armed. There are civilians there who believe in peace. We are preparing a safe place to accommodate them properly," he concluded.
