Cover photo: French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a European summit in Brussels October 27, 2023. JOHANNA GERON / Portal
- European leaders met at a summit in Brussels on Thursday October 26 and called for the establishment of “humanitarian corridors” and “breaks” to meet the needs of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In a nineteen-point declaration adopted after five hours of discussions, the Twenty-Seven also noted that the European Union supported the organization of an “international peace conference” that would take place “shortly.”
- Within six days, 74 aid trucks arrived in the Gaza Strip from neighboring EgyptIt is under a “total siege,” depriving its 2.4 million residents of water, food and electricity, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Thursday evening. “Humanitarian partners lack safe access to vulnerable populations and to warehouses where relief supplies are stored,” OCHA added.
- France will send 54 tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza. A special flight will take off to Egypt on Saturday to help the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, the French Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- The US military conducted raids in Syria on Friday morning against two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities in Iran. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke of “self-defense strikes.” American forces and their allies have been the target of at least sixteen attacks in Syria and Iraq in just over a week, the Pentagon said Thursday, blaming “Iran-backed militias.”
- Iran has warned that “the United States will not be spared” if the war in Gaza continues. “If the genocide continues in Gaza, they will not be spared from this fire,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told the United Nations General Assembly.
- The IDF announced that it had killed the deputy head of Hamas’ intelligence directorate, Shadi Barud. The Israeli army suspects him of planning the October 7 attacks in Israel together with Hamas leader Yahya Sinouar. Israeli forces also claimed to have killed three senior leaders of the Palestinian armed Islamist group’s Daraj Toufah battalion, who were said to have played a key role in the attack on the Jewish state.
- The United States wants to pressure Qatar to review its ties with Hamas, the Washington Post reports. An agreement was reached at a recent meeting in Doha between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani. The goal is to rescue as many hostages as possible while isolating Hamas. According to Israeli authorities, 224 hostages were abducted by Hamas to Gaza on October 7th. Four women have been released so far.
- Israeli planes bombed Lebanon in retaliation for the firing of a surface-to-air missile on the night of Wednesday to Thursday. Early Wednesday, the Israeli army also targeted military targets in Syria in response to shelling directed at Israel.
- A “massive” ground operation by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the Gaza Strip would be “a mistake,” Emmanuel Macron said again. Such an intervention “is unlikely to protect Israel in the long term” and “is not compatible with respect for civilians,” he said. The Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi also called on Israel to avoid a “land invasion of Gaza.”because it will cause “a large number of civilian casualties”.
- The number of French people killed in the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7th now stands at 35the State Department said, adding that nine more “hostages” were being held.
- Before dawn on Thursday, the Israeli army “carried out a targeted tank attack in the northern Gaza Strip.”as part of its preparations for the next phases of combat,” a military statement said.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged Wednesday evening that he, too, must be “held accountable” for the “security failures” that enabled the Hamas attacks. “We will investigate exactly what happened until the end (…). But all this will happen after the war,” he said.
- The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Thursday that 7,028 people had been killed since the beginning of the conflict in the enclave.
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