Today
Saturday, October 21, 2023
09:06
THE UN ON THE BORDER, IN RAFAH
Speaking from the Rafah border post yesterday, the UN Secretary-General warned of the urgency of the situation while humanitarian aid remained blocked. “Behind these walls in Gaza there are two million people without water, without food, without medicine and without fuel. On this side, these trucks have what they need. We have to get them moving as quickly as possible as much as necessary,” Antonio Guterres then tweeted.
It is impossible to be at the Rafah border crossing. I don’t feel heartbroken. Behind these walls, 2 million people in Gaza live without water, food, medicine and fuel. On this site, these trucks have what they need. We have to move them – as quickly as possible, as many as necessary. pic.twitter.com/GaogVeKtsl — António Guterres (@antonioguterres) October 20, 2023
08:53
NEW ALERT FROM ISRAEL
Israel is calling on its citizens in Egypt and Jordan to leave the country “as soon as possible” due to “increasing protests against Israel.” A similar warning, Level 4, the highest, has already been issued for Turkey and the advisories have been raised to Level 3 for Morocco, discouraging Israelis from traveling there.
08:52
Hamas releases hostages
According to Emmanuel Macron, Qatar, which has acted as an intermediary between Israel and Hamas in the past, played a “very important role” in the release of the two American hostages. In other words, he would have put pressure on the terrorist movement, according to LCI’s special envoy to Israel.
Is Hamas playing for time with the hostages? Source: TF1 Info
08:44
17 UN EMPLOYEES KILLED
At least 17 employees of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) have been killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, said its head Philippe Lazzarini. “So far, the deaths of 17 of our colleagues have been confirmed in this brutal war. Unfortunately, the actual number is likely to be higher,” said a statement from the UNRWA Commissioner General.
08:30
WAR CRIMES IN GAZA, AFTER AMNESTY
On the 11th day of the imposed siege of the Gaza Strip, NGOs continue their work to investigate and verify the acts committed on the ground. In a statement released yesterday, Amnesty International said it had “recorded illegal Israeli attacks, including indiscriminate attacks.”
Attacks that caused numerous casualties among the civilian population and must be the subject of an investigation that is considered a war crime.” The NGO denounces in particular five attacks on “residential buildings, a refugee camp, a family home and a public contract” and the fact that The Army had failed to warn civilians effectively, if at all, about the attacks.
07:54
A DAMAGED CHURCH IN GAZA
Debate rages over damage attributed to an attack on a historic church in Gaza. On the Palestinian side, it is stated that St. Porphyrius Church was destroyed by the IDF. The Israeli side complains that the place of worship is completely preserved, according to the tweet below. In fact, the Israeli army admitted to AFP that it had carried out an airstrike in the area on Thursday, allegedly targeting Hamas structures and then “the wall of a church in the area.” According to witnesses, the attack damaged a facade of the church, caused a building next door to collapse and injured many people. As a reminder: St. Porphyrius Church was already the subject of false rumors on October 9th, as we informed you here.
BBC and NY Times yesterday: Israel destroyed the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyry in Gaza. The Church today: pic.twitter.com/q8WJ9Oezox – Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 20, 2023
07:41
DEMONSTRATION IN URUGUAY
1,500 to 2,000 people demonstrated in Montevideo, Uruguay yesterday in solidarity with the Palestinian people. They gathered in the center of the capital under the slogan “Ceasefire! Stop the genocide!” and demanded that humanitarian aid be allowed to enter the Gaza Strip and that the population of the enclave enjoy UN protection.
Trade union leaders, humanitarian, student and feminist organizations and politicians opposed to the center-right government of President Luis Lacalle Pou waved Palestinian flags, wore keffiyehs or displayed banners reading “Palestinian lives matter too.”
07:34
Bombings in Gaza and southern Lebanon
The shelling of the Gaza Strip continued into the night. The Israeli army said on Telegram that it had attacked “Hamas command centers, anti-tank rocket launchers and strategic infrastructure” and also targeted gunmen and observers stationed in buildings. In recent hours, Israeli aircraft have bombed several Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon in response to rocket and anti-tank missile fire. The General Staff did not provide an assessment.
07:13
GAZA HOSPITAL
It is becoming increasingly clear to the various intelligence services where the bomb attack on the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza came from on Tuesday. “Nothing allows us to say” that it was “an Israeli attack” that hit the hospital, France’s military intelligence agency (DRM) said on Friday, citing “the nature of the explosion” conversations with others Services, but also the hole left by the shooting on site. “The most likely hypothesis is a Palestinian rocket that exploded with a charge of about five kilos,” said a DRM official. According to a European military source at France 24, the explosion was actually due to a botched shot from the Gaza enclave.
The official death toll, which Hamas estimates at 471, is also questioned. According to various sources and especially DRM, it could be completely overestimated. An American intelligence statement estimated Thursday that the number was “probably at the lower end of a range between 100 and 300,” the number of people killed at Ahli Arab Hospital. In this article we explain why this human toll is fraught with so much uncertainty.
07:04
HUMANITARIAN AID IN GAZA
On the 11th day of Israel’s total siege, Gaza’s 2.4 million residents are lacking food, drinking water, medicine and fuel. While around 175 trucks wait, international humanitarian aid is still blocked at the Rafah crossing, the only border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
It should be possible to enter “or into these waters” today, UN emergency manager Martin Griffiths said, adding that they were “in intensive and advanced negotiations with all parties concerned to ensure that as soon as possible a Aid operation in Gaza begins.” possible.” At the same time, Emmanuel Macron announced that he would provide emergency humanitarian aid, especially “in the form of medicines”, for the Gazans who are cut off from the rest of the world.
06:59
RELEASE
We tell you the story behind Hamas’s release of the two American hostages yesterday.
The underside of the release of the hostagesSource: TF1 Info
06:33
UPDATE ON HOSTAGES
While two American women – a mother and her daughter – were released by Hamas yesterday, 201 people are still being held hostage, including at least one French woman. We have a total of seven missing people. “Young Mia Shem is the only one whose hostage status is confirmed,” Emmanuel Macron said last night, referring to the French-Israeli woman whose video was broadcast by Hamas on Monday. “For the other six, there is a presumption of hostage-taking but without certainty,” added the president, who said he was “confident” that the hostages in Gaza will be released. For more details, see our article on the subject.
Of the approximately 200 hostages, more than 20 are minors and between 10 and 20 are over 60 years old. And among them are more than 22 different nationalities, including Americans, at least seven Germans and eight Argentinians.
06:17
WELCOME
Hello and welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the ongoing conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip. There you will find the latest information on tensions in the region since the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7th.