• It is the 76th day of the war: According to Hamas, almost 20,000 Palestinians have been killed, including around 8,000 children. In Israel, 1,200 people died in the attack on October 7th.
• Hamas releases video of bodies of three dead Israeli hostages: 'We tried to keep them alive, but Netanyahu insists on killing them'
• The Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip continues, the army has taken control of the Hamas headquarters in Gaza City.
• Hamas: “No hostage agreement without an end to Israeli attacks”
6:40 a.m. – Israel did not demonstrate the Hamas presence under Al-Shifa Hospital
The evidence presented by Israel before and after the controversial attack on Gaza's Shifa Hospital does not prove that the Islamist organization Hamas used the hospital as a base of operations or that there was a Palestinian militant headquarters beneath the building. This was written by the US newspaper “Washington Post”, which recalled how Israel had worked hard to justify the operation “weeks before sending its troops to the hospital”. In the days leading up to the hospital's siege, its bombing and attack by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), it described with extraordinary precision how the five hospital buildings were directly involved in Hamas's activities and how beneath the hospital lay a directly accessible command center Hospital, through which rocket launches and attacks are controlled by Hamas commandos. These statements – explained IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari on October 27 – were supported by “concrete evidence”. On November 15, the Israeli military attacked the complex, which had already been hit by artillery shells, and subsequently released a series of photos and videos about the discovery of weapons and the transfer to Hamas hospital of some civilians kidnapped by Hamas after the attack Israel on October 7th. However, the US newspaper writes, nothing in the material provided by Israel proves that Hamas used the hospital as a command and control center.
6:37 a.m. – UN, half a million people in Gaza are without food
A United Nations report finds that more than half a million people, a quarter of the population, are starving in Gaza because not enough food has reached the area since the war broke out more than 10 weeks ago. Arif Husain, chief economist at the World Food Program, said: “Virtually everyone in Gaza is hungry.” He warned that the population “could face full-scale famine within the next six months” if the war between Israel and Hamas reaches the same level continues and food supplies are not restored.
4:55 a.m. – The UN Council vote on the Gaza resolution has been postponed
The vote in the UN Security Council on the Gaza resolution has been postponed again. As AFP has learned, the latest draft would have disappeared the “immediate end” of fighting and instead called for “urgent measures to immediately enable safe and unhindered humanitarian access and create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of fighting.” “would have stayed. hostility.” Meanwhile, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Washington was ready to “support the draft in its current form.”