To better understand the latest events in the conflict between the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Israel, 20 minutes takes stock every evening. Between the strong declarations, the diplomatic advances or the dramatic results of the fighting, here are the main points of the day.
News of the day
Twenty-eight premature babies, who remained in Gaza’s al-Chifa hospital after its evacuation on Saturday, arrived in Egypt on Monday, said the World Health Organization (WHO) and Egyptian state media. “The 28 infants arrived in Egypt and three other babies continue to receive treatment at the Emirates Hospital” in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, said the WHO. “All babies suffer from serious infections” and “need medical attention,” the organization added.
“Eleven of them are in critical condition,” she said on Sunday, deploring that “two premature babies died before the evacuation took place.” During their evacuation from Al-Chifa, “none of the infants [évacués] was not accompanied by a family member because the Ministry of Health has only limited information and is not able to immediately find their relatives,” the WHO said.
The number of the day
3. The French Ministry of the Armed Forces will deliver, by military air, a first batch of medicinal aid weighing nearly three tonnes to the Lebanese armed forces, the office of Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Monday.
The minister’s office adds that this “first package” of donations “will be delivered this evening” to Lebanon, a country hit by an unprecedented economic crisis and which fears an extension of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
Sentence of the day
I believe “
This Monday, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, said he “believed” that an agreement was close to free hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Joe Biden released this information on the sidelines of a ceremony at the White House, when a journalist asked him the following question: “Is an agreement to release the hostages close? “. The American president simply replied “I think so”.
Today’s trend
Again and again hospitals. At least “12 patients and their relatives” were killed and “dozens injured” in an Israeli strike on the Indonesian hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip, said Ashraf al-Qidreh, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health. Hamas Health. According to him, “There are around 700 patients and caregivers in the Indonesian hospital.”
The Hamas government claimed that dozens of tanks and armored vehicles deployed around the hospital were firing machine guns and artillery at the establishment. The Islamist movement continues to repeat that Israel is waging “a war against the hospitals” in Gaza, almost all of which in the north of the territory are no longer functioning. For its part, Israel accuses Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip, of using hospitals for military purposes and of using the civilians there as “human shields”.