The US Secretary of State announced that the United States had presented a draft resolution to members of the UN Security Council calling for a “immediate ceasefire linked to the release of the hostages” in the Gaza Strip. “We very much hope that countries will support it”said Anthony Blinken in an interview with Saudi media. According to the spokesperson for the American ambassador to the UN, this vote will take place on Friday. On several occasions in recent months, Washington had vetoed resolutions calling for immediate ceasefires between the two sides. Follow our live stream.
France is preparing a draft resolution for a ceasefire. In the event of failure of the United States’ resolution at the UN, France prepares its own resolution, and Stéphane Séjourné stands ready to defend it. The Minister of Foreign Affairs plans to go to Egypt this weekend to plead for this French solution, according to franceinfo information from a highly placed diplomatic source.
A meeting between the leaders of Mossad and the CIA. The head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, will travel to Doha, Qatar, on Friday to meet with the head of the CIA, as part of negotiations around a truce in the Gaza Strip, the office announced Thursday of the Israeli Prime Minister. He will also meet the Qatari Prime Minister and the head of the Egyptian intelligence services, other mediators in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas on a truce. A deal to release hostages held in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel is also in talks.
Four Palestinians killed in Israeli army operation in West Bank. Four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli army operation launched overnight from Wednesday to Thursday in the “camp by Nour Shams”, adjoining Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank, according to a new report provided by the Palestinian Red Crescent. The Israeli army announced shortly after midnight that it was carrying out an operation in this refugee camp located in the northwest of the Palestinian territory.
Israel says it killed “more than 140 terrorists” in al-Chifa hospital. In a statement, the Israeli army said Thursday it had killed “more than 140 terrorists in the hospital area” al-Chifa, in Gaza City, on which it launched an operation on Monday.