With the renewed conflict entering its second week, mutual accusations and escalating confrontations between the Ethiopian forces and the Tigray Liberation Front

The intensity of the confrontations between the Ethiopian forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front escalated, at a time when the series of exchanges of accusations between the Addis Ababa government and the fighters of the Front of being responsible for the start of the attacks and fueling the conflict, which entered its second week, continued.

A military spokesman for the Tigray Liberation Front said that at dawn on Thursday, Ethiopian forces carried out "joint attacks" and a "total war" with Eritrean forces on areas in the west and north of the region bordering the Eritrean border, and targeted the town of Adebau in the north and was attacked from 4 axes.

The front's forces command said, in a statement, that "after (Ethiopia) redeployed a huge military force in Eritrea, it launched a joint attack with the invading Eritrean forces" on northern Tigray.

On the other hand, the Ethiopian government accused the Tigray forces of expanding the conflict areas to include the Wag administrative region, northeast of Amhara, and in the regions of western Amhara on the border with Sudan, and also expanding the battles to include the Welkit region, west of Tigray.

According to local diplomatic and humanitarian sources, the fighters of the Tigray Front have advanced in recent days about 50 kilometers into Amhara and approached the city of Waldia and Afar.

In response to the calls for a cessation of military actions and for dialogue, Addis Ababa considered it unacceptable the "rhetoric of the two camps" adopted by the international community, putting on an equal footing the "government and a fighting clique", as it put it.

Fighting has renewed in northern Ethiopia since August 24, after a 5-month ceasefire.

The Addis Ababa government accuses the Tigray Front of violating the ceasefire by attacking the eastern front in the Amhara region and expanding the areas of engagement, according to the government.

On the other hand, the Front previously denied the government's announcement that it had shot down a plane carrying weapons to forces affiliated with the Front, and said that Prime Minister Abi Ahmed was looking for a justification for his ongoing campaign of what it described as genocide.