Update on the situation Monday, November 20th, 9 p.m
The Hamas government announced Monday that 13,300 people had been killed in Israeli bombings of the Gaza Strip. since the war began on October 7th. The government of the Islamist movement said the deaths registered so far include more than 5,600 children. In addition, 31,000 people were injured.
Joe Biden said Monday he “believes” an agreement is close to the release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Stripon the sidelines of a ceremony at the White House after being asked about the issue by a journalist.
“In Gaza City, our clinic was shelled this morning,” denounced Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in a message published on X on Monday afternoon. “Our colleagues saw that a wall had been torn down and part of the building was burning, while heavy fighting was raging all around,” the NGO reports.
Hezbollah, which supports Hamas, said in a statement that on Monday at 1:10 p.m. (12:10 p.m. in Paris) its fighters “attacked the assembly centers of Israeli occupation soldiers west of Kiryat Shmona with three attack drones.” Hezbollah added that it had fired artillery at locations where Israeli soldiers were stationed in the same area. The Israeli army, for its part, said that 25 rockets were fired from Lebanon at several border towns on Monday.
28 premature babies who were still in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza after the evacuation on Saturday have arrived in Egypt, Monday, through the Rafah border crossing, the only entry into the world of Palestinian territory not in Israel’s hands, Egyptian state media Al-Qahera News reported. Three premature babies were left behind in the Gaza Strip, the BBC reported.
This was said by a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced on X The Israeli ambassador to South Africa will be recalled on Monday. He “was summoned to Jerusalem for consultations following recent statements from Pretoria.”, specified the ministry. The South African president on Friday called for an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the current war between Israel and Hamas.
The Hamas-run Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announces the deaths of at least 12 people in the bombing of a hospital. “The Israeli army is besieging the Indonesian hospital and we fear that the same thing will happen there as in Al-Shifa,” the largest hospital in Gaza, which was recently evacuated and is now in the hands of the Israeli army, said Ashraf Al-Qudra, Spokesperson for the Gaza Ministry of Health.