About 300,000 people took part in the pro-Palestinian demonstration in London, United Kingdom, on Saturday, November 11, to demand a ceasefire in Gaza, said a spokesman for the London police, who were mobilized to prevent a defection , while counter-protesters in attendance were also numerous. This was “the largest march” organized in the British capital since Hamas’s bloody attack against Israel on October 7 and the Israeli army’s massive response, the Metropolitan Police said. Follow our live stream.
A pro-Palestian demonstration takes place in Paris. Several thousand pro-Palestinian demonstrators had gathered in the capital since 3 p.m. and set off from Place de la République towards Place de la Nation. Organizers are calling for “an immediate ceasefire” in the conflict. Previously, several hundred people, more than 2,500 according to the CGT and 1,200 according to the prefecture, demonstrated peacefully for “peace” in Toulouse.
Two premature babies die in the largest hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Israeli NGO Physicians for Human Rights-Israel reports that “two premature babies died” after the neonatal intensive care unit was forcibly closed due to a lack of electricity at Al-Chifa Hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip. The NGO warns that there is also “a real danger to the lives of the 37 other premature babies” in this service, while heavy fighting is taking place near this facility against Israeli troops and fighters from Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The health system in the Gaza Strip is “on its knees”. The warning is issued by the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO). In particular, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed that half of the 36 hospitals in the enclave are “no longer functional at all.” He spoke of “crowded hospital corridors with the wounded, sick and dying, overcrowded morgues, surgeries without anesthesia, tens of thousands of people seeking refuge in hospitals.”
A meeting in Riyadh. Arab heads of state and government and the Iranian president will meet in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for a joint summit. The Arab League will “discuss the way forward on the international stage to end the aggression, support Palestine and its people, condemn the Israeli occupation and hold them accountable for their crimes,” said the Arab League’s deputy secretary general on Thursday organization, Hossam Zaki.
A first Israeli attack deep in Lebanon. An Israeli attack on Saturday targeted a vehicle in southern Lebanon, about 45 km north of the shared border. The official ANI agency, which reported no casualties, said that “an enemy drone attacked a van parked in an orchard in the Zahrani region” on the Lebanese coast. This is the first time that an Israeli attack has targeted a target far from the border.
Emmanuel Macron calls for a ceasefire. The French president “urged[é] Israel wants to stop bombings killing civilians in Gaza, in an interview with the BBC. “These babies, these women, these elderly people are being bombed and killed.” There was “no justification” and “no legitimacy for it,” he said.