Cover photo: Palestinians fleeing the northern Gaza Strip move to the south of the enclave during a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas near Gaza City, November 27, 2023. IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA / Portal
- On Sunday, November 26, fourteen Israeli hostages were released, including two dual citizens, one American and the other Russian, and three Thais. They all arrived in Israel. One of the 84-year-old hostages is in “critical condition,” according to the hospital where she was taken. This third hostage release operation brings to 58 the number of hostages released since the start of the ceasefire agreed between the Hebrew state and Hamas. Further releases are expected on Monday.
- Israeli authorities have released 39 Palestinians, all under 19 years old, from prison, in exchange for the seventeen hostages released by Hamas, Agence France-Presse journalists noted. Buses left Israel’s Ofer prison in the West Bank, where prisoners had been transferred before their release. They then arrived in Beitunia.
- There are no Frenchmen among the hostages released between Friday and Sunday, But “we have hope” that French hostages will be released, BFM-TV Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna assured. “I know the wait is tiring. (…) We are working tirelessly for their release,” she added.
- Joe Biden hopes the four-day ceasefire can last “beyond tomorrow.”. “It is my goal and our goal to ensure that this pause continues beyond tomorrow so that we can release more hostages and bring more humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip,” the official said Speech on the release of an American hostage held by Massachusetts. Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas also left open the possibility of extending the ceasefire.
- Many trucks carrying humanitarian aid were transported to the Gaza Strip. “The PRCS teams [le Croissant-Rouge palestinien] “One hundred trucks transported to Gaza City and the Northern Governorate,” the organization announced. For its part, the army of the Hebrew state announced on Telegram that an organ of the Israeli Defense Ministry had “coordinated the entry of two hundred trucks into the Gaza Strip.”
- An oil tanker, the Central Park, owned by an Israeli-linked company, was boarded in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Yemen on Sundaya U.S. defense official told Agence France-Presse but its crew was “safe.”
- Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Bundestag President Bärbel Bas, Germany’s two highest-ranking representatives, are on a solidarity visit to Israel. At a joint press conference with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, Steinmeier assured his country’s full support for Israel in the Gaza war.
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) reports that Damascus airport was once again the target of Israeli airstrikes, rendering it inoperable On Sunday, a few hours after flights resumed, the closure of routes followed a similar attack last month. The raid targeted runways, according to the OSDH, with sounds of explosions also reported from a military airport in another part of the capital.
Find our direct precedent by clicking this link.
Read all our articles on the war between Israel and Hamas
Encounter. Suspended from negotiations, hostage families between fear and anger
Narrative. Israel-Palestine, two families in the upheaval of history
Cards. The trajectory of Yahya Sinouar from the Khan Younès refugee camp at the forefront of the October 7 attack
Decryption. In Morocco, the Carrefour and McDonald’s companies were boycotted against the background of the Gaza war
Reporting. “A feeling of betrayal” prevails among the Jews of Dagestan after the anti-Semitic riots
Investigation. A kaleidoscope of motivations at the Paris rallies against the war in Gaza
Decryption. The Jewish state was still united behind its army
Facts. Yemeni Houthis open a new front in the Red Sea
Decryption. In Gaza, the fight for gasoline is crucial to the enclave’s survival
Video examination. The impact of an Israeli shell on Al-Shifa Hospital