LIVE – Israel-Hamas war: Joe Biden will go to the Middle East, diplomatic pressure for humanitarian aid to Gaza

Humanitarian aid convoys stationed in Al-Arich, capital of Egyptian North Sinai, took the road on Tuesday morning towards Rafah, a border post towards Gaza bombed by Israel, while an agreement on the entry of the Aid has been stalling for days, humanitarians report.

“We have arrived at the terminal and we are now waiting for the next step,” reports Heba Rashed, who runs an Egyptian NGO, Mersal, as hundreds of other trucks crowd the forty-kilometer road between Al-Arich and Rafah, according to other humanitarians.

Hamas, which perpetrated terrorist attacks on Israeli soil last October 7 broadcast a video of one of the hostages captured that day. In it, the woman – who is being treated on the arm by an unidentified medical worker – identifies herself as 21-year-old Mia Schem. She asks to be returned to her family as quickly as possible.

“Please get me out of here as quickly as possible,” she said to the camera, also ensuring that she was treated well by her captors.

A representative for the family, part of a group of French-Israeli families who have called on President Emmanuel Macron to help free their loved ones, confirmed their identity to the Reuters news agency.

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Crif, the representative council of Jewish institutions in France, announced this Monday, October 16 that the Franco-Israeli Céline Ben David-Ngar died in the Hamas attacks in Israel.

“[Elle] was murdered in cold blood by Hamas terrorists. We learned about it today following the identification of the bodies.”

Céline Ben David-Ngar grew up in France and arrived with her family in Israel in 2006. The 32-year-old young woman had been missing for ten days. Married, she had a six-month-old child. “My wife has probably been removedand taken to Gaza (…)”, her husband supposed on BFMTV on Thursday October 12.

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Israeli police announced Monday that they would begin arming civilians to speed up the response in the event of an attack or crisis situation in the country’s cities, on the 10th day of the war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas.

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Hamas said on Monday that it was “not afraid” of a ground offensive by Israel, which has massed its soldiers along the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory under the control of the Islamist movement that it intends to annihilate.

“The threat of the occupation (Israel, editor’s note) to launch a ground offensive against our people does not scare us and we are ready for it,” declared the spokesperson for the armed wing of Hamas, Abou Obeida, in a statement. audio recording.

At the end of his visit to Israel, Joe Biden will travel to Amman, Jordan, where he will meet King Abdullah II, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, said Monday a White House spokesperson.

The president “will reiterate our belief that Hamas does not represent the vast majority of the Palestinian people, who are also victims,” ​​said John Kirby, spokesperson for the US National Security Council.

Iran warned on Monday of possible “preventive action” against Israel “in the coming hours”, as the Israeli army prepares to launch a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Tehran has repeatedly warned that a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip would lead to a response on other fronts, raising fears of a regional conflagration.

“The possibility of preventive action by the axis of resistance is expected in the coming hours,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on state television, referring to his meeting with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday.

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