Cover photo: At the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, November 17, 2023. JACK GUEZ / AFP
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military’s efforts to cause “minimal civilian casualties” in Gaza had been “not successful.”. “We are doing everything to put civilians out of danger, while Hamas fighters are doing everything to put them in danger,” he said in an interview with the American broadcaster CBS News.
- Netanyahu said there were “strong indications” that Hamas hostages were being held at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. This is one of the reasons why the Israeli army has invaded and laid siege to the establishment since Wednesday, he told CBS News. ” If [des otages] “If they were there, they were driven out,” Mr. Netanyahu said.
- American diplomacy chief Antony Blinken called on Israel on Thursday to take “urgent” action to end settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. In the territory occupied by Israel since 1967, more than 190 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers since the Hamas attack on October 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. On the night of Thursday to Friday, an Agence France-Presse team reported on a major Israeli operation in Jenin camp, a stronghold of Palestinian armed movements in the West Bank.
- Israeli airstrikes caused “material damage” near Damascus early Friday, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported. Syrian air defense intercepted several of these Israeli missiles.
- “We are on the verge of destroying the military system in northern Gaza. We will finish this”Israeli Chief of Staff General Herzi Halevi said on Thursday: Almost six weeks after the offensive began in the Palestinian enclave in response to the Hamas attack on October 7th.
- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will not conduct cross-border humanitarian relief operations on Friday. she announced on Thursday eveningas a result of the complete disruption of communications in the Gaza Strip.
- The situation in hospitals in the Gaza Strip is not improving. This was claimed by the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip The Israeli army had attacked several services in Al-Shifa, particularly those of radiology, burns and dialysis. Israeli operations continued there on Thursday: “Soldiers are searching every floor, one building at a time, while hundreds of patients and medical staff remain in the complex. » The Palestinian Red Crescent also reported a “violent Israeli attack” and the siege of Al-Ahli HospitalIn Gaza City, the facility turned into a “simple aid station,” according to one of its surgeons. Over and beyond, The Indonesian hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip has ceased operationsannounced its director on Thursday.
- French Military Minister Sébastien Lecornu said he was “hopeful” about the fate of the French hostages held by Hamas. According to a report on Thursday in Qatar, he was one of the mediators in the hostage crisis. Mr Lecornu travels to Israel on Friday, after stops in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and then Qatar.
- The United Nations World Food Program warns of the “imminent threat of famine” in the Gaza Strip, where food and water are “almost nonexistent.” The UN agency’s executive director, Cindy McCain, speaks about the fuel shortage: “Even when trucks arrived from Egypt on Tuesday and were able to unload their cargo in Gaza, the food did not reach the civilian population in the emergency shelters due to the shortage.” is available for distribution vehicles. »
- The Ministry of Health in Gaza, an area controlled by Hamas since 2007, said this on Thursday 11,470 Palestinians – including 4,707 minors and 3,155 women – were killed by Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. In addition, 29,800 people were injured.
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