by D. Frattini, correspondent; L. Cremonesi and A. Nicastro, correspondents; Online editorial team
The news from Saturday, November 18th, on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, live. The Balata refugee camp in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank was attacked: five Palestinians were killed and two injured. This was announced by the Red Crescent
• 43rd day of war: The death toll among Palestinians is over 16,000, including 5,000 children. In Israel, the attack on October 7th left 1,200 dead.
• Fighting also breaks out in the West Bank. IDF: The operation will be expanded to southern Gaza in due course.
• The words and acronyms to understand the conflict: Here is the glossary.
• The history of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, explained here.
10:30 a.m. – Hezbollah: We responded to Israeli raids
Hezbollah said it responded to Israeli air and artillery attacks in southern Lebanon by attacking Israeli army positions near the demarcation line between the two countries. According to Hezbollah press releases, Israeli positions in the areas of Shtula, Nahal Betzet, Jordeikh, Wadi Sasa, Khallet Warde and Raheb were attacked.
10:18 a.m. – Heavy Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon
In recent hours, Israeli air force and artillery have repeatedly bombed civilian-inhabited areas in southern Lebanon near the front line between Hezbollah and Israel. This was announced by the Lebanese government agency Nna, according to which the places hit by enemy fire range from the Mediterranean coastal area to the Hula plain in the hinterland: Naqura, Ramie, Ayta Shaab, Aytarun, Rmeish, Qawzah, Jabal Blat, Yarin, Debel and Hula.
10:04 a.m. – After Hezbollah attacks, Israel attacks Lebanon
Israeli artillery hit targets in southern Lebanon following a series of Hezbollah attacks in the Upper Galilee this morning. The military spokesman updates it. Warning sirens had previously sounded in several Israeli border towns, including Sasa and Shtul. A total of 25 explosions were recorded, which did not cause any fatalities. In the attacks carried out by Hezbollah in the same area yesterday, four people were injured, one of whom is in serious condition.
10:03 a.m. – Israel: Evacuation of Shifa Hospital was never requested
At no time did the Israeli army order the evacuation of patients or doctors from Shifa Hospital. The military spokesman said this, explaining that the army instead received a request from the director of Shifa to give other Gazans who are in the hospital and who want to be evacuated the opportunity to do so through a safe route. Medical staff will remain at the hospital, he added, to help patients who cannot be evacuated.
In fact, the spokesman emphasized that he had suggested that any request for medical evacuation would be facilitated by the army. He added that he provided the hospital with more food, water and humanitarian aid last night.
9:57 a.m. – Jordan criticizes Israel and war crimes in Gaza
Jordan’s foreign minister has sharply criticized Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, calling it a blatant aggression against Palestinian civilians that threatens to spread throughout the Middle East. The harsh assessment by Ayman Safadi, who said Israel was committing war crimes by besieging the Gaza Strip and cutting off supplies of food, medicine and fuel, shows how strained relations have become between Israel and Jordan, which reached a peace deal in 1994.
9:51 a.m. – Evacuation of al-Shifa. Not everyone manages to leave it
The evacuation of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City is underway, but not everyone has been able to leave the facility as requested by Israeli troops. A source from Gaza’s largest hospital complex told al-Jazeera. The Israeli army asked those present to leave the hospital, and not everyone managed to leave the hospital: some of those who were in the hospital left, but others remained behind, including the wounded and sick, the source said . However, the spokesman for the Israeli army denies that there was an evacuation order: on the contrary, he specifies that if the patients need to be evacuated, the army will facilitate the transfer to other hospitals, but the medical teams will remain in the hospital for the benefit of the patients who do not want or cannot be evacuated.
9:24 a.m. – Hostage families meet Gantz and Eisenkot
Tonight in Israel there will be a meeting between the representatives of the forum that brings together the families of the hostages and missing people born after the terrible Hamas attack on October 7th, as well as Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot, both in the Israeli War Cabinet . The announcement came from the forum, Haaretz reports. According to the announcement, the request to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense and Strategic Affairs Ministers Yoav Gallant and Ron Dermer was rejected.
9:12 a.m. – Israel, the caravan of grandparents: Take us hostage in place of our grandchildren
The grandmothers and grandfathers of some hostages held in the Gaza Strip appeared at the barrier rebuilt after the Oct. 7 invasion and offered themselves as prisoners in place of their nephews and nieces. Like Naama Levy, a soldier who was taken away from the Nahal Oz base: “We want to send the message to the government that we have to try in some way to bring them home,” Shaul’s grandfather says on behalf of everyone they came with 45 motorcycles along the 4th. Here is the report from Davide Frattini.
9:06 a.m. – Alarm sirens in northern Israel on the border with Lebanon
In northern Israel, especially in Kibbutz Sasa on the border with Lebanon, warning sirens are wailing about the arrival of rockets. The army made it known.
9:00 a.m. – Hamas: Over 16,000 dead in Gaza in 43 days of war
The Israeli attacks on Gaza killed over 16,000 Palestinians in the 43 days of war. The number of Palestinian victims was determined by the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which had not updated the figures for several days. The figure presented last Thursday by the Hamas-run ministry showed the deaths of over 11,500 people in the Gaza Strip; But yesterday a source in the Islamist movement told al-Jazeera that over 3,750 people were missing and still buried under the rubble of the bombings.
8:45 a.m. – Clashes in the West Bank, 5 Palestinians killed in Nablus
Five Palestinians were killed and seven others injured in an Israeli army operation in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the West Bank. The Wafa agency reported the number of deaths, according to which an Israeli drone attacked the Fatah headquarters in the camp with a rocket. According to the army, a hideout of terrorists involved in the preparation of an imminent terrorist attack on Israeli civilians and soldiers was hit. According to the same source, Muhammad Zahed, a known terrorist from Nablus, was among those killed.
7:58 a.m. – Israel calls for the evacuation of Al-Shifa
According to AFP, the Israeli army ordered the evacuation of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza within an hour: doctors, patients and displaced people were given one hour to evacuate the largest health facility in the Gaza Strip. Gaza. There are currently 2,300 patients, health workers and displaced people at the health facility, according to the United Nations. A doctor told Al Jazeera from the hospital that occupation forces had told them they needed to evacuate the complex of staff, patients and wounded; He added that a state of panic and fear had arisen, but stressed that doctors would only leave the hospital with patients.
7:56 a.m. – The son of the pacifist killed by Hamas: Don’t bomb Gaza in the name of my mother
In my mother’s name, Netanyahu should do the opposite of what he is doing. Revenge is not a strategy: we must negotiate, expand dialogue with other countries and free the hostages. The only way to live in a safe Israel is peace: the touching interview with the son of the pacifist killed by Hamas.
7:27 a.m. – Palestinian children injured in Abu Dhabi
The first plane carrying injured Palestinian children and minors landed in Abu Dhabi. This is a United Arab Emirates initiative to shelter 1,000 Palestinian minors injured in fighting and bombings in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli press reports about it.
7:14 a.m. – Palestinians delivered 17,000 liters of fuel for telecommunications
A first shipment of fuel arrived in the Gaza Strip on Friday after Israel gave the green light to end a telecommunications blackout that blocked the delivery of humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinian territory. Israel had recently authorized, at the request of the United States, the entry of two trucks carrying fuel per day into the Gaza Strip, where the lack of fuel needed to run generators has left many hospitals out of service and telecommunications was interrupted as well as deliveries of humanitarian aid.
The Palestinian authority responsible for the Rafah border crossing said 17,000 liters of fuel were delivered through Egypt on Friday to power the telecommunications company’s generators. However, according to the United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA), the announced deliveries represent only a small part of the amount of fuel that reached the Gaza Strip in 50 trucks a day before the start of the war.
4:48 a.m. – Middle East: Media, southern strip bombed, 26 dead, many children
According to Al Jazeera Arabic, 26 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip. According to the state-run Palestinian news agency Wafa, around 26 people were killed, most of them children. According to Wafa, the bombing occurred in the city of Khan Younis and also caused dozens of injuries. The agency also states that the area around the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahiya, north of the Gaza Strip, as well as targets in Jabaliya camp, also in the north of the Gaza Strip, were hit. The director of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis confirmed to AFP that 26 people were killed in a bomb attack on three residential buildings in the city. The hospital director also stated that 23 people were seriously injured.
12:51 a.m. – Middle East: Israel and Hezbollah positions are attacked in southern Lebanon
The Israeli army said its warplanes and helicopters attacked Hezbollah positions and targets in southern Lebanon in response to rocket fire from Lebanese territory into Israel over the past 24 hours. The Israeli military also said it attacked the rocket launch site from which its position in the Har Dov region was attacked on Friday morning. as reported by Haaretz.
00:20 – Red Crescent, 5 dead in attack on Balata refugee camp
The Palestinian Red Crescent announced on Friday night that five people were killed and two injured in an airstrike on the Balata refugee camp in Nablus in the occupied West Bank. According to the camp administration, the offensive hit a building that housed the headquarters of Fatah, the largest Palestinian organization. When asked about the incident, the Israeli army did not immediately confirm the attack.
The Balata camp has a population of 24,000, according to the UN, which manages it. This camp is known for hosting young fighters belonging to the armed branches of several Palestinian groups. Following the bloody attack on Israel by the Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, the Israeli army has not stopped bombing the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and increasing its incursions in the West Bank. In the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, around 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers since October 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
November 18, 2023 (modified November 18, 2023 | 10:41)
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