The head of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) once again comments on the situation of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. “The carnage simply must stop,” Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement to the media on Friday, November 10, calling for an end to the siege of the enclave and for the “unrestricted” movement of humanitarian aid. “Destruction of entire neighborhoods is not a response to Hamas’ heinous crimes,” this senior United Nations official said. “On the contrary, a new generation of harmed Palestinians is emerging who are likely to continue the cycle of violence.” On X (ex-Twitter)He also claims that more than 100 UNRWA staff have been killed in Gaza since October 7. Follow our live stream.
“There is still a lot to do” for the civilian population in Gaza, Washington admits. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed the “progress achieved” but called for further action “to protect civilians and provide humanitarian assistance” in the Gaza Strip, the day after announcing daily humanitarian pauses for a few hours to help residents of the north of the enclave to enable escape to the south. “Far too many Palestinians have been killed,” said the head of American diplomacy from New Delhi, India.
Not a ceasefire, but a humanitarian “pause”. According to the United States Israel agreed to establish daily humanitarian “pauses” to allow civilians to escape from the north of the Gaza Strip, where fighting and bombardment is most intense, to the south of the enclave. These four-hour disruptions “in certain areas of the northern Gaza Strip will be announced three hours in advance,” said White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. “Humanitarian organizations will not be able to work,” Amnesty International Secretary General Agnès Callamard complained on Franceinfo on Friday.
“Nothing will stop us,” emphasizes Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli Prime Minister again rejected calls for a permanent halt to the Israeli army’s operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on the American broadcaster Fox News on Thursday and ruled this out as long as the hostages held since the October 7 attacks are not made public. The leader said a ceasefire would amount to a “surrender to Hamas.”
The Israeli army attacks in Syria. Israel said it attacked Syria on Friday in response to the downing of a drone the day before in the southern resort town of Eilat. The plane crashed into a school and caused no injuries. The Israeli army targeted “the organization that carried out the attack” from Syria, she said on X (formerly Twitter), without mentioning the name of this organization. Israel “holds the Syrian regime responsible for any terrorist attack originating from its territory,” she warned.