8:50
The Minister of the Armed Forces is visiting Qatar again today
According to FranceInfo data confirmed by BFMTV, Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu visited Qatar today for the second time in 48 hours.
The Gulf state has used intensive diplomacy to try to secure the release of the hostages held by Hamas.
A meeting is planned for the morning with the Qatari prime minister, who is leading talks about the hostages.
The minister, who has been on a diplomatic trip through the Middle East since the beginning of the week, will then travel to Egypt.
8:02
According to AFP, Israeli soldiers ordered the evacuation of Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital “within an hour.”
Israeli soldiers, conducting a raid on Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital for the fourth day in a row, ordered the evacuation over a loudspeaker “within an hour,” an AFP journalist at the scene reported.
There are currently 2,300 patients, caregivers and displaced people in the facility, according to the United Nations, and international concern about their fate is growing. Israel assures that Hamas, which is in power in Gaza, uses this facility as a military base.
7:57
The Palestinian Authority announced last night that 17,000 liters of fuel had been delivered
The Palestinian Authority, which is responsible for the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian border, announced last night that 17,000 liters of fuel had been delivered to power the Gaza telecommunications company’s generators.
At the request of the United States, Israel allowed two tank trucks to enter the Gaza Strip every day.
According to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the announced deliveries represent only a small part of the amount of fuel, or 50 trucks, that reached the Gaza Strip every day before the start of the war.
7:25
The Red Crescent reports five deaths in an overnight strike at a refugee camp in the West Bank
The Palestinian Red Crescent announced overnight that five people were killed and two injured in an attack on the Balata refugee camp in Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
According to the camp administration, the airstrike hit a building that housed a headquarters of Fatah, the largest Palestinian organization.
When asked, the Israeli army did not immediately confirm this attack
6:03
Gaza hospital director announces 26 dead in strike
The director of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the central Gaza Strip announced that 26 people had been killed in an attack on three residential buildings in the city.
This airstrike in Hamad district also left 23 people seriously injured, he told AFP.
6:02
“We do not demand the moon”: Top UN officials call for a “humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza
The heads of humanitarian operations at the UN, the refugee agency and the WHO called on Friday for a “humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip for 2.2 million people trapped by the “horror” of the war between Hamas and Israel.
“We don’t ask for the moon. We call for essential measures necessary to meet the basic needs of civilians and stem the progression of this crisis,” UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths protested in a video intervention during an informal plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York York.
6:00
A first fuel delivery to the Gaza Strip after the green light from Israel
A first shipment of fuel arrived in the Gaza Strip on Friday after Israel gave the green light to end a telecommunications suspension blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinian territories.
Israel had recently authorized, at the request of the United States, the entry of two fuel trucks per day into the Gaza Strip, where the lack of fuel needed to run generators has left many hospitals out of service and the Telecommunications were paralyzed and deliveries of humanitarian aid were paralyzed.
5:59
The situation is “catastrophic” for patients, displaced people and nursing staff at Al-Shifa Hospital
Hello and welcome to this live broadcast of the war between Israel and Hamas. On the 43rd day of this conflict, Al-Shifa Hospital is the focus of concern.
The situation is “catastrophic” for patients, displaced people and caregivers crammed there without electricity “or water or food,” said the director, doctor Mohammed Abou Salmiya.
For its part, the Israeli army, whose tanks still surround the hospital as it battles violence elsewhere in Gaza City, said it continued to search the huge residential complex, a Hamas hideout, notably installed in a network of tunnels.