Two groups of French nationals and their entourage were able to leave the Gaza Strip via the Rafah border crossing on Monday and Tuesday, November 7, the Foreign Ministry said in a press release. “They are safe in Egypt, where they were looked after by the French embassy. [le] Consulate General in Cairo as well as teams from the ministry’s crisis and support center,” specifies the Quai d’Orsay. In total, “more than 100 people” were evacuated from France. Follow our live broadcast.
Benjamin Netanyahu rejects any ceasefire. The Israeli Prime Minister has once again rejected the possibility of a ceasefire in Gaza. In a television interview with American broadcaster ABC News broadcast on Monday evening, the leader added that the Jewish state would assume “overall responsibility for security” in the Gaza Strip “indefinitely” after the end of the conflict.
Doctors Without Borders calls for a ceasefire. The organization Doctors Without Borders called on Tuesday for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, an “indispensable prerequisite” for organizing humanitarian aid. This is a “vital emergency” for the population of the Palestinian territory under Israeli fire, she added during a press conference at the organization’s headquarters in Paris. She also denounced “false signs of humanity and hesitant discussions.”
A field hospital set up by the United Arab Emirates in Gaza. While humanitarian aid has flowed into the Palestinian enclave since the start of the conflict, five planes have left Abu Dhabi for Egypt’s Al-Arich airport, near the Gaza border. They are transporting the necessary equipment to build a 150-bed structure, the official Emirati news agency WAM said in a press release issued on Monday evening.
The UN believes Gaza has become a “graveyard for children.” Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments come after UN chief Antonio Guterres called for a “humanitarian ceasefire” in the Palestinian enclave that has been turned into a “cemetery for children” “more urgently with every passing hour.” “The nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis, it is a crisis of humanity,” he lamented. Antonio Guterres also reiterated his condemnation of Hamas’s “heinous acts of terror” on October 7 and castigated the Palestinian movement for “using civilians as human shields and continuing to indiscriminately fire rockets at Israel.”