Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced this Monday that he ordered total blockade of the Gaza Strip, this means that the Palestinian enclave will be no supplies of electricity, food and fuelat the height of the war between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas.

“I gave the order: the Gaza Strip will be completely closed. “We are fighting barbaric terrorists and will respond accordingly,” the minister said, according to a statement from his office.

“There will be no electricity, food or fuel” in the Israeli sector, said Gallant, who is assessing the operational situation in the Army’s Southern Command along with the head of the command, Yaron Finkelman.

Israel has maintained an air, land and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip since 2007, when Hamas took control of the enclave, which has a population of 2.2 million and has a single power plant that requires fuel to operate. supply hospitals, homes and shelters.

Israel declared a state of war on Saturdayafter Hamas launched an unprecedented multiple attack from land, sea and air that took the country by surprise with the launch of thousands of rockets and militia ground incursions into Israeli soil, where they killed and kidnapped dozens of Israelis.

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Thus, Israel responded with heavy and constant bombing of the Gaza Strip, where Gaza’s 2.3 million residents liveoften indiscriminately.

In two days of war lThe death toll in Israel has exceeded 700 and more than 2,200 were injured. In the Gaza Strip, at least 493 deaths were reported, including 91 children, and 2,751 injured. of which 244 are minors.

Human Rights Watch said this Monday that Israel and Hamas ‘fail to fulfill their legal obligations’and described Israel’s policy towards the population of Gatsi as “illegal collective punishment, which constitutes a war crime.”

(EFE)