Two influential far-right Israeli ministers firmly rejected, Thursday, February 15, the possibility of a peace plan, which Washington and its allies are considering according to certain media to free the hostages held in Gaza and move towards the creation of a Palestinian state. According to Washington Post, the Biden administration and a small group of its Arab allies are working on a comprehensive plan intended to establish lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Follow our live stream.
Netanyahu persists. Despite international warnings, Israel persists in its plan to launch a military operation in Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians are hiding in appalling conditions. “We will fight until complete victory, which involves powerful action in Rafah and this, after allowing the civilian population to leave the combat zones”stormed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his Telegram account
Talks in progress. Negotiations for a truce including new releases of Hamas hostages and Palestinians detained by Israel continue in Cairo, under the mediation of Qatar and Egypt. After a meeting on Tuesday attended by the head of Mossad, the Israeli secret service, the director of the CIA, the Prime Minister of Qatar, and Egyptian officials, these negotiations were to continue until Friday.
Hospitals submerged. The WHO has once again denounced the situation of hospitals in Gaza, “completely submerged, overwhelmed and insufficiently supplied.” Staff must carry out amputations due to lack of means to treat patients, the local WHO representative testified from Gaza. “One of my colleagues described the situation in Rafah as a ‘pressure cooker of despair’. If it ‘explodes’ it could have catastrophic consequences,” the director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs lamented to franceinfo.