The Israeli army announced Friday that it had recovered the remains of a 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, who was taken hostage on Oct. 7, from “a building next to the hospital.”
The war between Israel and Hamas entered its 42nd day on Friday, November 17th. As search operations continue at Al-Shifa Hospital, the Israeli army announced that it had recovered from “a building adjacent to the health facility” the remains of a 19-year-old female soldier, Noa Marciano, who was taken hostage on October 7 had been taken. Franceinfo takes stock of the most important information of the day.
Body of hostage found near Al-Shifa Hospital
The Israeli army, which continues its search operations at Al-Shifa Hospital, which it portrays as a strategic and military center of Hamas, which the Palestinian movement denies, announced that it had removed the remains from “an adjacent building in the hospital.” of a 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, who was taken hostage on October 7th.
This is the second hostage remains announced by the army in Gaza in less than 24 hours. US President Joe Biden and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, whose country is a key mediator in hostage release negotiations, spoke about the “urgent” need for Hamas to release the prisoners, according to the White House. to be released immediately.
A first fuel delivery to the Gaza Strip after the green light from Israel
A first shipment of fuel arrived in the Gaza Strip after Israel gave the green light to end a telecommunications suspension blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinian territories.
Israel had recently authorized, at the request of the United States, the entry of two fuel trucks per day into the Gaza Strip, where the lack of fuel needed to run generators has left many hospitals out of service and the Telecommunications were paralyzed and deliveries of humanitarian aid were paralyzed. The Palestinian authority responsible for the Rafah border crossing said a shipment of 17,000 liters of fuel had arrived via Egypt to power the telecommunications company’s generators.
A worrying humanitarian situation at al-Shifa Hospital
The Hamas Ministry of Health claimed that 24 patients died at Al-Shifa Hospital within “48 hours” due to a lack of fuel to power generators.
A new premature baby died after his incubator lost power, said Ashraf al-Qidreh, a ministry spokesman.
The situation was “catastrophic” for the patients, nursing staff and displaced people who had found refuge there, around 2,300 people according to the UN, without electricity, “nor water and food,” complained the director of the hospital.
The Israeli army says it killed “five terrorists” in Jenin
The Israeli army announced that it had killed “five terrorists” in Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed movements. Hamas claimed responsibility for an attack near Jerusalem on Thursday that killed an Israeli soldier.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, two Palestinians were also killed by the Israeli army in Hebron. The army confirmed the death toll and said the two men “shot at soldiers who (…) responded with fire.”
The WHO calls for daily evacuations of patients from Gaza to Egypt
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for regular, daily flows of patients to be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment in Egypt to relieve strain on overwhelmed hospitals.
The WHO hopes to send a team to Gaza as soon as possible to assess the situation and is calling for the establishment of a “mechanism to facilitate the evacuation of the most critical patients,” said Richard Peeperkorn, head of the WHO’s office in the occupied areas Palestinian territories to journalists in Geneva via video conference from Jerusalem. He explained that 50 to 60 patients per day need to be evacuated to Egypt.
“We are not asking for the moon,” just a “humanitarian ceasefire,” protests the UN
The heads of humanitarian operations at the United Nations, the refugee agency and the WHO have called for a “humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip for 2.2 million people trapped in the “horror” of the war between Hamas and Israel.
“We don’t ask for the moon. We call for essential measures necessary to meet the basic needs of civilians and stem the progression of this crisis,” UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths protested in a video intervention during an informal plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York York. “A humanitarian ceasefire. Call it what we will, but what is needed from a humanitarian perspective is simple: stop the fighting so civilians can move to safety,” Martin Griffiths thundered to member states.
Pope meets families of Israeli hostages and Palestinians from Gaza
Pope Francis will meet separately on Wednesday with the families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza and the relatives of Palestinians living in the area, the Vatican announced. The 86-year-old Pope wants to express “his spiritual closeness to the suffering of all” in these talks, which take place on the sidelines of the general audience on Wednesday, said his spokesman Matteo Bruni, pointing to “the purely humanitarian character”. these meetings”.
On Sunday, the Pope emphasized that “every person, whether Christian, Jew, Muslim, no matter what nation or religion, every person is holy and precious in the eyes of God and has the right to live in peace,” his spokesman recalled.
The Hamas government says 12,000 Palestinians have been killed
According to the latest Hamas government report, 12,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombings of the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, including 5,000 children and 3,300 women. No on-site source or image can support this assessment.
According to Israeli authorities, the Hamas attack claimed 1,200 lives on the Israeli side, most of them civilians killed on October 7. The Israeli military estimates that around 240 people were taken hostage. According to them, 51 soldiers have been killed in Palestinian territory since October 7th.