Israel, Hamas and the United States are reportedly close to reaching a tentative agreement to release dozens of women and children hostage Gaza in exchange for a five-day break in fighting. That reports it Washington Post citing some sources that the release of the hostages should begin in the next few days. An indiscretion that led to enlightenment White House: “We haven’t reached an agreement yet, but we continue to work hard to get there,” White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said on X.
07:11
Doctors Without Borders, our convoy in Gaza was attacked, 1 dead and 1 injured
“A family member of a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) worker was killed and another injured in an attack on a convoy of the humanitarian organization trying to evacuate 137 people due to a week of fighting around Al-Shifa Hospital stuck in Gaza. The attack happened yesterday afternoon.” The humanitarian organization itself announced this in a statement. “Doctors Without Borders strongly condemns this deliberate aggression,” the statement continued. “The MSF convoy, consisting of five vehicles with the organization’s clearly visible symbol, departed yesterday at 9 a.m. with 137 people, consisting of members of the Palestinian Doctors Without Borders,” employees and their family members, including 65 children. The convoy left the MSF compound (guest house, office and clinic near Al-Shifa Hospital) towards the south of the Gaza Strip to reach a safer location. On November 11, these people were trapped due to fighting and since then Médecins Sans Frontières has repeatedly called for their safe evacuation.”
04:49
USA, still no Israel-Hamas agreement
The United States said it was still working to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas. “We haven’t reached an agreement yet, but we continue to work hard to get there,” White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said on X in response to a Washington Post report that there was a tentative agreement .
3:00 am
Washington Post, Israel-Hamas deal, 5-day break for dozens of hostages
Israel, Hamas and the United States are nearing a tentative agreement to release dozens of women and children hostage in Gaza in return for a five-day pause in fighting. This is reported by the Washington Post, citing some sources, according to whom the release of the hostages should begin in the next few days.
In the six-page agreement, all sides commit to freezing hostages for at least five days and releasing 50 or more hostages in batches every 24 hours. Air surveillance will monitor movements on the ground.
02:31
Senator Sanders calls for conditions on US aid to Israel
Senator Bernie Sanders is calling for US aid to Israel to be “conditioned” by a “change in military and political positions” by the Israeli government. “Even if Israel has the right to act against Hamas, Netanyahu’s right-wing extremist government does not have the right to declare total war on the Palestinian people,” Sanders said, emphasizing that aid should be conditional on a commitment to negotiate a deal Solution of two states and the end of the occupation of Gaza.
01:20
“Biden calls for preparing options for extremist settlers”
Joe Biden is asking his closest aides to prepare visa bans and sanctions for extremist Israeli settlers who attack Palestinians in the West Bank. In a message addressed, among others, to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Biden called for “to develop options for rapid action against those responsible for violence in the West Bank,” which they see as a “serious threat” to peace between Israelis consider and Palestinians and a destabilizing force in the Middle East. In Biden’s sights – reports Politico, citing the message sent to Blinken and Yellen – there are people or organizations that have “directly or indirectly been involved in actions or policies that threaten the security or stability of the West Bank”; those who “intimidate the civilian population in the West Bank with the aim or effect of forced displacement”; or those whose actions “constitute human rights violations and actions that impede the realization of the two-state solution.”
(afp) 00:20
WHO evacuates al-Shifa hospital, it is a “death zone”
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had carried out a mission to the hospital al-Shifa in Gaza, the target of raids by the Israeli army, and that he was working on an evacuation plan for the facility, which he described as a “death zone.” “L’WHO and its partners are urgently developing plans for the immediate evacuation of the remaining patients, staff and their families,” the organization said in a statement, adding that 291 patients and 25 medical staff remained hospitalized as of Saturday.