Cover photo: Posters of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, November 21, 2023. AMIR COHEN / Portal
- Talks on the release of hostages held by Hamas in exchange for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are accelerating on Tuesday. where the Palestinian Islamist movement accuses Israel of a deadly attack on a besieged hospital. ” THE [Hamas] conveyed his answer to the brothers of Qatar and the mediators. “We are getting closer to concluding a ceasefire agreement,” Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was quoted as saying in a short message on the Palestinian movement’s Telegram account. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric met on Monday evening with Qatari leaders and Mr. Haniyeh, who is based in the Gulf emirate, to “move forward on humanitarian issues related to the armed conflict.” Israel and Gaza.
- “The best guarantee of Israel’s security is the creation of a Palestinian state” said the head of diplomacy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, on Monday after a meeting with the 27 foreign ministers. This is “a fundamental political conclusion” of his talks in the region, said the EU’s top diplomat.
- US President Joe Biden said he “believes” an agreement is close to the release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Families of Israeli children held hostage by Hamas confronted the United Nations on Monday, urging them to press for their release during a demonstration in front of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Tel Aviv.
- Twenty-eight premature babies evacuated on Sunday from a hospital in Gaza City, the center of fighting between Israel and Hamas, arrived in Egypt on Monday, the Palestinian Islamist movement that has accused Israel of a deadly attack on another besieged facility. Lined up on stretchers, all wearing the same little green hat, the babies were cared for in incubators after crossing the border.
- A field hospital is to be built in Khan Younes, south of the enclave, the first of its kind since the start of the war.. According to Palestinian medical officials, health workers have entered the Gaza Strip from Jordan. The Hamas government counts 31,000 injured in Palestinian territory.
- An Israeli attack on an Indonesian hospital left at least “twelve patients and their relatives” dead and “dozens injured.”, in the northern Gaza Strip, said Ashraf Al-Qdra, spokesman for the ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. In coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), around 200 patients were evacuated from this hospital. There are still 400 patients at the facility, he added.
- The Israeli army said it would “continue to expand its operations to new areas in the Gaza Strip.”particularly in the Jabaliya sector in the north of the territory.
- On Monday, the Doctors Without Borders clinic in Gaza City “came under fire” and “four Doctors Without Borders burned down”, a fifth cut in two, the NGO said, without news from any of its members and their relatives. According to an AFP journalist, artillery fire and airstrikes destroyed buildings in central Gaza. Doctors at Gaza’s Al-Ahli Hospital told AFP they had received “dozens” of dead and injured people.
- According to the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, 41 members of the same family died in an Israeli attack on their home in Jabaliya. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported the overnight bombing of the Indonesian hospital north of Gaza City, while Hamas reported bombings by Israeli tanks.
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