What happened in the last few hours?
These are the most important news on the war between Israel and Hamas until 12:00 this Tuesday, November 21st:
According to the local broadcaster they worked for, two Lebanese journalists and another civilian died in an Israeli attack near the border with Israel. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency has reported the deaths of three citizens, two journalists and another civilian, due to an “enemy bomb attack” in the Tair Harfa region bordering Israel, according to Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera.
The Israeli army claims to have “completed” the siege of the Jabalia community in northern Gaza. The Israeli army assured on Tuesday that its forces had managed to “complete” the siege of the northern Gaza town of Jabalia, home to the enclave’s largest refugee camp, before stressing that the military was “prepared.” continue the attack.
The top Hamas official assures that a ceasefire is near. Ismail Haniya, the head of the Palestinian Hamas militia, told Portal on Tuesday that his group was “close” to reaching a ceasefire with Israel. The group has already given the Qatari mediators their answer, says Haniya, who lives in exile in the Persian Gulf country. A statement shared with the British agency by one of its spokespeople said the parties were “close to reaching an agreement on the ceasefire.”
Netanyahu: “The return of the abductees is a holy mission.” Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, assured on Friday evening that the release of those kidnapped by Hamas was a “holy mission”. “We are very committed to it and work on it every day. We will not rest until we achieve it,” said the politician in a message published on his social networks.
One hundred patients are evacuated from the Indonesian hospital in Gaza. Gaza’s Ministry of Health announced on Monday that 100 patients had been evacuated from the Indonesian hospital. The health center is surrounded by Israeli tanks and snipers who have fired on anyone leaving the facilities, which house about 700 people, according to Qatari television Al Jazeera. According to authorities in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, at least twelve people were killed in heavy artillery attacks.
Israel arrested almost 900 minors in 2023. Israeli forces have arrested nearly 900 minors in the occupied West Bank since the start of the year, and detentions increased in intensity in October after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In total, “occupation forces have detained more than 880 children since the beginning of 2023,” according to data released this Monday by the Commission on the Affairs of Former Prisoners and the Palestinian Prisoners Club on the occasion of World Children’s Day.