Cover photo: Israeli soldiers are seen during a raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank, Thursday, October 19, 2023. Majdi Mohammed / AP
- Joe Biden said Wednesday that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi, with whom he had just spoken, had “agreed” to “leave up to twenty trucks behind.” [d’aide humanitaire] Cross the Egypt-Gaza border via the Rafah border crossing. In a press release, Egypt confirmed the “sustainable” passage of humanitarian aid through this border post.
- Cairo has not given a date for when the delivery of this aid will begin. According to the American president, the first trucks will not reach the Gaza Strip before Friday because work needs to be carried out on the road destroyed by Israeli bombings.
- “Israel will not prevent humanitarian aid from Egypt as long as it provides food, water and medicine to the civilian population in the southern Gaza Strip.”, For his part, a press release from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who previously spoke with Joe Biden during his visit to Israel, assured.
- The US president exonerated Israel over the deadly explosion at Al-Ahli Hospital in downtown Gaza on Tuesday evening. He confirmed Israeli claims that the IDF was not behind the shooting. According to him, it was “an out-of-control rocket fired by a terrorist group in Gaza” that hit the hospital.
- According to the Israeli army, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired a volley of rockets at Israel and one of them fell on the hospital. The Palestinian armed group called the allegations “lies.” According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 471 people died in the explosion at Al-Ahli Hospital.
- In response to this tragedy, demonstrations took place in several cities in the Maghreb and the Middle East on Tuesday and Wednesday.. Large rallies took place in Amman, Tunis, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul and Manama.
- The United States voted against a Security Council resolution on Wednesday that called for a “humanitarian pause” between Hamas and the Jewish stateWashington castigates a text that fails to mention “Israel’s right to defend itself.”
- At least 1,400 people were killed in Israel since the Hamas attack from the Gaza Strip. The death toll in the Palestinian enclave is at least 3,478 peopleaccording to local authorities, who do not specify whether this assessment takes into account that of Al-Ahli Hospital.
- According to an updated Israeli army report, almost 200 people have been taken hostage by Hamas. For its part, Hamas says it is holding “between 200 and 250 people.”
- Around a million people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Sunday. “This number is likely to be even higher as people continue to leave their homes,” the UNRWA communications director said. The evacuation order ordered by Israel affects 1.1 million residents in the north of the enclave.
- The number of French nationals killed continued to rise, reaching 28, with seven missingthe Foreign Ministry reported on Thursday.
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