What happened in the last few hours?
These are the most important news on the war between Israel and Hamas until 8:00 p.m. this Tuesday, November 21st:
Two ultra-ministers from Israel assure that their parties will reject the agreement with Hamas. Both National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich opposed any government between the Israeli executive and the Palestinian militia Hamas. Gvir, of the ultra-conservative Jewish Power, and Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionist Party, have said they reject an agreement with Hamas.
The US sees the agreement on the release of hostages “closer than ever before”. President Joe Biden said this Tuesday that the pact could be announced “very soon,” while John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, stressed that “we are closer than ever before.” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, However, stressed that the agreement is close, although it is not yet finalized.
The Gaza Health Ministry raises the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 14,128. The Hamas-led government says the dead included 5,840 minors and 3,920 women. In addition, around 33,000 people were injured in the Israeli bombings, according to the same source.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reports that three doctors were killed in an Israeli attack on Al-Awda Hospital. According to his report, another doctor was injured. They join three other people who have suffered serious injuries. Two of the deceased doctors worked for Doctors Without Borders, the NGO said.
108 staff from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees have died in Gaza in an “unprecedented humanitarian disaster”. The Commissioner General of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said: “The people of Gaza are not safe anywhere: not at home, not under the UN flag, not in a hospital, not in neither in the north nor in the south [de la Franja]”.
Netanyahu convenes his government and war cabinet to discuss the hostage release agreement. The Prime Minister’s Office published a message on the social network that of the Security Cabinet at 7:00 p.m. and that of the Government at 8:00 p.m. “I hope there will be good news soon,” he said.
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.”