The calm will not come immediately. The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas will not come into force before Friday, the chairman of the Israeli National Security Council announced on the night of Wednesday, November 22nd to Thursday, November 23rd. Negotiations will “continue uninterrupted,” he added. At the same time, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported nightly Israeli attacks, underlining the Israeli authorities’ desire not to take a break for the time being. Follow the situation in our live stream.
“This war continues,” says the Israeli prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday, hours after announcing an agreement to release at least 50 hostages held by Hamas and establish a four-day ceasefire. “This war will continue until we achieve all of our objectives, get our hostages back and destroy Hamas,” he said.
Son of Hezbollah lawmaker killed in Israeli bombing in Lebanon. The son of Mohamed Raad, the Hezbollah group’s president in the Lebanese parliament, and four other fighters were killed in an Israeli bombing raid in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, the Shiite movement, an ally of the Palestinian Hamas, said. The Israeli army, for its part, claimed on Wednesday evening that it had attacked a number of Hezbollah targets and firing points from Lebanon, including a Hezbollah “terror cell” and infrastructure.
Joe Biden discusses the Gaza ceasefire with his Middle East partners. The US president spoke to the leaders of Qatar, Egypt and Israel on Wednesday about the hostage release and ceasefire agreement in Gaza. The tenant of the White House also raised with his interlocutors the question of the delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip, where the humanitarian crisis is growing.