“A French plane will land tomorrow [en Egypte] “To deliver medical equipment” to the Gaza Strip, Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday, October 25, in Cairo (Egypt). “More will follow,” the head of state added. In addition, “a ship from the national navy” “Toulon” will leave “in the next 48 hours” to provide assistance to hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The French president spoke in a joint statement with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi after a meeting between the two leaders. Country. Follow our live stream.
A tribute to the French victims. France Télévisions learned from people close to the president that a ceremony would be organized in France in honor of the French victims of the Hamas attacks. Date, location and modalities are still being checked. In Hamas’ deadly attacks on Israel on October 7, 30 French people were killed and nine are still missing.
The story of a former Israeli hostage. Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, released by Hamas, told Tel Aviv that she “went through hell” when she was kidnapped. She says she was “taken away on a motorbike (…) my body on one side and my legs on the other”, then “beaten along the way” and taken to “a network of tunnels” before being “treated well.” “was her captors in the Gaza Strip, visiting a doctor.
Israel and Hamas announce the number of victims. Israeli authorities say in their latest report that the Hamas attack killed more than 1,400 people on Israeli territory. For its part, the Hamas Ministry of Health claims that Israeli strikes have killed more than 6,546 people, most of them civilians. On both sides, these assessments have not been verified by an independent source.