- The ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and Hamas came into effect at 7 a.m. local time (6 a.m. Paris time) on Friday, November 24, and the first 13 hostages, women and children, are scheduled to be released later in the afternoon. The Israeli prime minister’s office said on Thursday that it had an “initial list of names” of the hostages and was in contact with their families.
- The agreement reached Wednesday between the Israeli government and the Islamist group calls for the exchange of fifty women and children detained by Hamas against Palestinian prisoners and a “pause in fighting” for four days.
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the agreement, as did his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi and his American counterpart Joe Biden. This “humanitarian ceasefire must make it possible to negotiate the terms of a ceasefire” that must be “as permanent as possible,” pleaded French President Emmanuel Macron. The UN spoke of an “important step”, but estimated that “much remains to be done”.
- After returning from the Gaza Strip, Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, reiterated his call for a “long-term humanitarian ceasefire.” “Since my first visit two weeks ago, the humanitarian situation has already deteriorated significantly. The movements continue,” Mr. Lazzarini said in a press release, adding that one million people were housed in the UN agency’s premises in the Gaza Strip.
- French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna did not want to say whether there were French people among the hostages which Hamas has agreed to release. The head of diplomacy said: “I hope so.” [ait] French among them [eux]» ; “We are working on it and I hope that tomorrow I can tell you: “Yes, there were French people.”
- The Hamas government announced on Wednesday that 14,854 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombings in Gaza since the war began. The Hamas government said the deaths registered so far include 6,150 children. In addition, according to the same source, 36,000 people were injured.
- The humanitarian pause will allow the entry of “a larger number of humanitarian convoys and relief supplies, including fuel.”Qatar emphasized. About 200 to 300 trucks carrying humanitarian aid will enter the enclaveEight of them were fuel and gas, said a Hamas manager, Taher Al-Nounou.
- The war also raises fears of regional escalation, particularly involving the Lebanese Hezbollah in Israel’s north and Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the south. The son of Mohammad Raad, the Hezbollah group’s leader in the Lebanese parliament, and four other fighters were killed in an Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, the Hamas-allied Shiite movement said. Abbas Raad “fell as a martyr on the way to Jerusalem,” Hezbollah wrote in a statement.
- The US intercepted drones launched from Yemen. A US warship patrolling the Red Sea on Thursday shot down attack drones launched from a region of Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels, the US military command in the Middle East said.
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