The “catastrophe” caused by the war between Israel and Hamas “makes the need for a humanitarian ceasefire more urgent with every hour,” the UN Secretary-General said on Monday, November 6. Antonio Guterres, who describes Gaza as “a graveyard for children.” “The parties to the conflict and the international community face an immediate and fundamental responsibility: to end this inhumane collective suffering and to radically increase humanitarian assistance to Gaza,” he added. Follow our live stream.
Four Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Authority. Three Palestinians were killed and a fourth injured by Israeli army shelling in Tulkarem, northwest of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Previously, a Palestinian was killed and three others wounded “by Israeli bullets” in Halhoul, near Hebron in the southern West Bank, the same source said.
Additional aid of 25 million euros for the residents of Gaza. From Brussels, Ursula von der Leyen promised an additional amount of 25 million euros, bringing the total amount of this aid to 100 million. The President of the European Commission also mentioned the establishment of a maritime corridor from Cyprus to regularly transport humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
• According to Hamas, the threshold of 10,000 deaths was exceeded. The Palestinian Hamas Ministry of Health told a news conference in Gaza that 10,022 people have died in Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip since the war began on October 7. According to Israeli authorities, the terrorist attack in Israel claimed more than 1,400 lives, most of them civilians.
Forty French people were killed in the attacks on October 7th. The number of French victims of Hamas attacks in Israel has risen again, reaching 40 dead and eight missing, including hostages, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne confirmed on Monday. On Sunday, the family of a 17-year-old French-Israeli girl previously listed as missing announced that her body had been found. “Our priority is of course the release of the hostages,” the head of government assured France Inter.