9:28 p.m
The Red Cross announces that its president met with the leader of Hamas in Qatar
The Red Cross announced Monday evening that its president had traveled to Qatar to meet Palestinian Hamas leader Ismaïl Haniyeh to discuss “humanitarian issues related to the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza,” a Palestinian state ruled by the organization area to move forward.
“President Mirjana Spoljaric met with Ismaïl Haniyeh, head of Hamas’ political bureau, and separately with the Qatari authorities,” the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement.
20:02
Israel recalls its ambassador to South Africa for consultations
Israel has recalled its ambassador to South Africa, the Foreign Ministry announced, after Pretoria recalled all diplomats based in Israel and on the eve of a virtual BRICS summit on the Gaza war.
“Following recent South African statements, the Israeli ambassador in Pretoria has been recalled to Jerusalem for consultations,” ministry spokesman Lior Haiat said on X (ex-Twitter), without specifying the nature of these statements.
19:57
WHO chief shares images of evacuation of premature babies from al-Shifa
The head of the WHO shared a video on his X account of the evacuation of premature babies from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
6:15 p.m
Joe Biden “believes” a deal to release Hamas hostages is near
Joe Biden said on the sidelines of a White House ceremony on Monday that he “believes” an agreement to release hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip is imminent.
A journalist asked him: “Is an agreement to release the hostages close?” and the American president replied: “I think so.”
6:04 p.m
The Hamas government reports a new death toll of 13,300 in Gaza
The Hamas government announced a new death toll of 13,300 in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been battling the Islamist group since the Oct. 7 attack in Israel.
Read our analysis of Gaza’s difficult victim count.
5:42 p.m
The Doctors Without Borders clinic was partially destroyed in fighting
A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) clinic in Gaza City is affected by the fighting in the Palestinian enclave.
A wall collapsed and part of the building was ravaged by fire, reports the NGO, which also says five of its vehicles bearing the MSF logo were destroyed.
“One MSF member and 20 members of his family are in the clinic and their lives are in danger, we have not heard from them,” MSF added to X.
5:34 p.m
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will discuss the situation in Gaza on Tuesday
Leaders of the emerging BRICS group of states, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, will meet virtually on Tuesday to discuss “the situation in Gaza and the Middle East,” the Russian and South African presidencies announced on Monday known.
The Brics, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is a bloc of countries that seeks a broader global balance and, in particular, is less influenced by the United States and the European Union.
This “extraordinary joint meeting” on Gaza will be chaired by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the current president of the Brics, the South African presidency announced in a press release.
16:41
UN chief says UN ‘protectorate’ in Gaza is not a post-war solution
A “UN protectorate” in Gaza after the war is not a solution, the United Nations secretary general said on Monday, calling for a “transition” involving multiple actors, particularly the United States and Arab countries.
“It is important to turn this tragedy into an opportunity and for this to be possible, it is important that we move decisively and irreversibly towards a two-state solution after the war,” Antonio Guterres told reporters.
This requires “a strengthened Palestinian Authority that takes responsibility for Gaza,” he said. But “the Palestinian Authority cannot advance into Gaza with Israeli tanks”, “the international community must think about a transition period”.
“I don’t think a UN protectorate in Gaza is a solution. I think we need a multi-stakeholder approach, where different countries, different entities work together,” he said, mentioning among these actors the United States: “guarantors” of Israel’s security and the Arab countries of the region, “essential” for the Palestinians.
4:35 p.m
The WHO says it is “shocked by the attack on the Indonesian hospital in Gaza.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was “shocked by the attack on the Indonesian hospital in Gaza, which reportedly left 12 people, including patients, injured and dozens injured, some of whom were in critical condition and with mortal danger.”
In a message about “Interior of a Hospital”.
The Hamas government today accused Israel of attacking the hospital.
16:21
According to an NGO, 48 journalists have been killed since the conflict began
According to a statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists updated today, 48 journalists and media workers have been killed since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7.
The NGO states that 43 of them are Palestinians, 4 are Israelis and one is Lebanese.
15:53
According to the WHO, three babies evacuated from Al-Shifa continue to be treated in the Gaza Strip
Twenty-eight premature babies – not 29 as Egyptian state media previously reported – who remained at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza after Saturday’s evacuation arrived in Egypt via the Rafah border crossing on Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
“Today, Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances transported 28 premature babies who arrived from Al-Shifa Hospital on Sunday from Emirates Hospital in Rafah (Gaza) to the Rafah crossing,” the only uncontrolled exit from Gaza by Israel, the WHO announced in a press release.
“The 28 infants arrived in Egypt and three other babies continue to be treated at the Emirates Hospital” in Rafah, southern Gaza, the organization said.
3:35 p.m
The helicopter carrier Dixmude leaves Toulon to reach Gaza
His resignation was announced on November 2nd by the Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu, it is now a done deal. The helicopter carrier Dixmude leaves the port of Toulon this Monday afternoon to reach the Gaza Strip.
Its mission is to provide humanitarian assistance to the population by unloading equipment for the local population and serving as a health base.
More information here.
3:01 p.m
Vladimir Putin will attend the BRICS online summit on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend a virtual summit of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) on Tuesday on the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict” amid the Gaza war, the Kremlin said on Monday.
The Russian presidency has not announced details of the agenda for this online meeting of leaders of this bloc of emerging economies, which will seek a global balance that focuses less on the United States and its European allies.
14:57
African Union president says Israeli response to Gaza is ‘inexcusable’
The president of the African Union on Monday condemned Israel’s response in Gaza after the bloody Hamas attacks on October 7, ruling that it was “inexcusable” given the civilian casualties and would serve to “inflame extremism.”
Hamas’ actions are “condemnable (…), but the reaction is inexcusable,” said Azali Assoumani at a press conference in Berlin.
“Imagine a child who saw his mother killed, who saw his father killed (…), that creates extremism,” he added.
2:02 p.m
A child dies in Gaza every 10 minutes, says the WHO
In Gaza, “a child dies every 10 minutes,” writes the WHO on its X account on the occasion of International Children’s Rights Day.
“Food and water shortages. Houses, schools and hospitals bombed. Children in Gaza are paying the highest price in the conflict,” says the World Health Organization.
1:55 p.m
Russia will hold summits with Arab countries on the situation in the Gaza Strip
Russia will host the foreign ministers of the Arab League countries in Moscow tomorrow to discuss the situation in Gaza, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced today.
13:23
Emmanuel Macron met former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the Élysée Palace
Emmanuel Macron met today at the Élysée Palace with the former President of Israel from 2014 to 2021, Reuven Rivlin, the Presidency of the Republic announced.
The head of state “affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself and reaffirmed France’s solidarity with Israel in the fight against terrorism,” the Elysee Palace press release said.
Emmanuel Macron also recalled “the need to distinguish terrorists from the people of Gaza” and “the importance of establishing an immediate humanitarian ceasefire leading to a ceasefire.”
12:58
Field hospital and nurses from Jordan enter the Gaza Strip
A field hospital and nursing staff from Jordan, the first of its kind since the war began, arrived on Monday in Gaza, which has been under relentless bombardment by Israel for 45 days, medical officials in the Palestinian territory said.
Forty trucks carrying that hospital’s equipment and 17 Jordanian nurses and technicians entered from Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, the only entry into the world in the Gaza Strip not controlled by Israel, these officials said. The Hamas government currently counts 30,000 injured in Gaza and 13,000 dead, two thirds of them women and children.
12:57
Macron-Xi appeal: France calls on China to increase aid to Palestinians
China must contribute “significantly more” to the UN’s humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians, the French presidency said on Monday after a phone call between Emmanuel Macron and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
“To date, this support has been extremely limited, in the order of about a million dollars per year. Therefore, we encourage the Chinese authorities at the highest level to do much more,” the Elysée told reporters.
Paris also called on Beijing to use its “influence” over Middle Eastern countries to prevent “any escalation” in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
12:37
Xi and Macron discuss Israel-Hamas conflict in phone call, Beijing says
Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the Israel-Hamas conflict in a phone call on Monday, saying they wanted to “avoid a more serious humanitarian crisis,” according to Chinese state television.
“The two leaders exchanged their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and both are convinced that the top priority is to prevent further deterioration of the situation between Palestine and Israel, in particular to prevent an even more serious humanitarian crisis,” CCTV said Report.
12:00
Gaza: 28 premature babies evacuated from al-Shifa have arrived in Egypt
Twenty-eight premature babies who were evacuated the day before from Al-Chifa Hospital, which was stormed by the Israeli army on November 15, have arrived in Egypt, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced.
The babies were transported in incubators in Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances and passed through the Rafah border crossing.
According to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, three more babies “continue to receive care at the Emirates Hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip.”
Read our full article.
11:25
UN says rain is making situation in Gaza shelters ‘unbearable’
“Heavy rains are falling in the Gaza Strip,” warns the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNWRA) on X (formerly Twitter).
“The situation in the emergency shelters is unbearable. People have no other choice. Humanity must win,” UNWRA added.
9:18
Iran rejects Israel’s allegations regarding the cargo ship hijacked by the Houthis
Iran on Monday rejected Israel’s accusations that it was responsible for the hijacking of a cargo ship by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in retaliation for the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“We have consistently stated that the resistance groups in the region represent their countries and that they make their decisions and actions based on the interests of their countries,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said during a news conference.
He was reacting to statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who on Sunday “strongly condemned the Iranian attack on an international ship” in the Red Sea.
“Such accusations are invalid,” replied Nasser Kanani. “The Zionist regime cannot accept that it is suffering a major defeat in Palestine and wants to find its justification (…) by blaming the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said.
8:44
“Gali loves life very much”: The aunt of a teenager kidnapped by Hamas testifies
Myriam, Gali’s aunt, who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, testified on BFMTV this morning about her family’s concerns: “It’s already been 45 days since we haven’t seen her and haven’t heard from her” about this 13 year old girls.
“Gali loves life very much, she is a very happy girl with a lot of joy in life,” describes her aunt.
Before the Hamas attacks, Gali was part of a volleyball team, loved animals and was a flirtatious teenager, says Myriam, who wants the world to know who her niece is.
8:36
“Hostage Stories”: Eden Zacharia, 28, took part in the Nova Festival on October 7th
Eden Zacharia, 28, was kidnapped by Hamas during the Nova festival on October 7 in Israel. His loved ones are still waiting for his return. “The world cannot bear to lose her, she is such a good person,” her mother testified in a video posted on social networks.
8:14
Japan is “head-on” approaching Houthi rebels over a captured cargo ship
Japan said on Monday it was “directly approaching” Yemen’s Houthi rebels after the hijacking of a cargo ship with 25 crew belonging to an Israeli businessman and chartered by a Japanese maritime transport group in the Red Sea this weekend.
“We are communicating with Israel and not only addressing the Houthis directly, but also calling on Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran and other relevant countries to demand the Houthis immediately release the boat and its crew members,” the Japanese foreign minister said Yoko Kamikawa said.
8:13
Houthis claim to have seized an Israeli businessman’s cargo ship in the Red Sea
Yemen’s Houthi rebels said on Sunday they had hijacked an Israeli businessman’s merchant ship in the Red Sea in retaliation for Israel’s war against its Palestinian ally Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“The naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces conducted a military operation in the Red Sea, the result of which was the seizure of an Israeli ship and its transfer to the Yemeni coast,” Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on the social network
This confiscation is based “on the religious, humanitarian and moral responsibility towards the oppressed Palestinian people, who are subjected to an unjustified siege and the continuation of the terrible and heinous massacres of the Israeli enemy.”
8:11
Hamas’ health ministry announces 12 dead in attacks on a hospital in Gaza
At least “twelve patients and their relatives” were killed and “dozens were injured” in an Israeli attack on the Indonesian hospital north of Gaza City, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidreh said on Monday. Hamas health.
“The Israeli army is besieging the Indonesian hospital and we fear that the same thing will happen there as in al-Chifa,” another hospital that was recently evacuated, Doctor Qidreh added.
6:59
There was heavy fighting in Gaza on Sunday
This Monday, Israeli forces “continue to expand” their operations against Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip, amid talks about the release of hostages in the hands of the Islamist movement in exchange for a ceasefire in the fighting.
Heavy fighting broke out in central Gaza City on Sunday, with Israeli tanks responding to rocket launchers fired by Palestinian fighters and airstrikes intensifying in the evening.
An AFP journalist on the scene heard a series of airstrikes at close range and saw columns of smoke rising above the Jabaliya refugee camp.
According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, 41 members of the same family died in an Israeli attack on their home in Jabaliya. The Palestinian Wafa agency reported an attack on the Indonesian hospital north of Gaza City overnight, while Hamas reported bombings by Israeli tanks.
6:48
China wants to work to “restore peace in the Middle East”.
During a speech in Beijing to a delegation of Arab diplomats, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi assured that China was committed to “restoring peace” in the Middle East.
“Let us work together to quickly calm the situation in Gaza and restore peace in the Middle East as quickly as possible,” he said.
“A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Gaza,” the minister added, adding senior diplomats in the delegation, including the foreign ministers of the Palestinian Authority, Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
“The situation in Gaza affects every country in the world and challenges the notion of right and wrong and the basic principles of humanity. The international community must act urgently and take effective measures to prevent this tragedy from spreading,” he stressed the political leader.
5:30
Macron accuses Netanyahu of “too many civilian casualties” in Gaza and “violence” in the West Bank
Emmanuel Macron questioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the “too many civilian casualties” in Gaza and reminded him of the “absolute need to distinguish terrorists from the population,” the Élysée said on Sunday.
Regarding the situation in the West Bank, the head of state expressed to Benjamin Netanyahu “his grave concern about the increase in violence against Palestinian civilians” and called for “everything to be done to prevent the spread of this violence and to maintain calm.”
He also raised the issue during an interview with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in which he condemned “the violence” committed “against Palestinian civilians” in the West Bank, the French presidency said.
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5:00
Israeli army releases videos showing “hostages in Al-Shifa hospital.”
The Israeli army broadcast images on Sunday evening, purportedly from surveillance cameras at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, showing hostages being brought into the facility’s premises on October 7.
“These results prove that the terrorist organization Hamas used the Al-Shifa hospital complex as a terrorist infrastructure on the day of the massacre,” the Israeli military and intelligence agency said in a statement.
These images, whose authenticity AFP could not immediately verify, appear to be dated October 7, 2023, the day on which the Palestinian Islamist movement carried out its attack on Israel, the most violent in the country’s history since 1948, with killings around 1,200 people, most of them civilians according to the Israeli authorities, and around 240 hostages.
4:45
Former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will be received at the Élysée Palace today
Reuven Rivlin, former President of the State of Israel (2014-2021), will be received at the Élysée on Monday for an interview with Emmanuel Macron.
“On the occasion of this meeting, the President of the Republic will once again express his solidarity with Israel in the face of the horrors of the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas in Israel on October 7, in which 1,200 victims, including 40 Frenchmen, died,” announces a press release of the palace.
4:30 p.m
“We are not rushing”: A relative of the missing remained cautious about the possible release of hostages
The United States and France is increasing its pressure in the hope of the hostages being released soon arrested by Hamas. It is still too early to rejoice for Yaël Tamir, whose relatives have been missing since October 7th.
“As long as we haven’t seen the hostages on Israeli territory, I’ll hold back (…) I hope (that they’ll be released, editor’s note), but we’re not in a hurry,” she holds back.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to receive the families of the hostages in Tel Aviv on Monday evening around 7 p.m. A meeting that must take place without the presence of the press.
4:00
Hello everyone
Welcome to this live broadcast monitoring the war between Israel and Hamas, more than a month after the October 7 attacks.