“I will not mince words.” “The overwhelming majority of Palestinians are not part of Hamas” and the Islamist movement “does not represent the Palestinian people,” the American president said on Thursday, February 22 At. Joe Biden believes Palestinians “also suffer from Hamas terrorism.” The statement came as the United States vetoed a resolution at the UN Security Council on Tuesday calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. Follow our live stream.
Talks about a ceasefire continue. Negotiations led by the American envoy for a new release of hostages, accompanied by a pause in hostilities in Gaza, are “progressing well,” a White House spokesman, John Kirby, assured on Thursday. The latter stated that the envoy traveled to Cairo (Egypt) on Wednesday and was scheduled to meet the government and families of American hostages in the Hebrew state that day.
Incessant Israeli attacks on Gaza. Around a hundred people have died in Israeli bomb attacks on the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, Hamas said on Thursday. International organizations are alarmed by the catastrophic situation of the approximately 2.4 million residents who are besieged in the Palestinian territory.
Unrwa has reached its “breaking point”. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees' ability to fulfill its mandate is “now seriously at risk,” its chief Philippe Lazzarini lamented on Thursday, due to “repeated calls from Israel for its dissolution and the freezing of donor funds.”