The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza warned, Monday, November 13, that the “Humanitarian operations will cease within 48 hours, with no fuel allowed into Gaza.” The Palestinian territory, where more than 1.5 of the 2.4 million inhabitants have been displaced according to the UN, has been subject to a total siege imposed by Israel since October 9, depriving the population of water, electricity , food and medicine. “This morning, two of our main water distribution subcontractors stopped working – they no longer have fuel – which will deprive 200,000 people of drinking water”explained Thomas White on. Follow our live stream.
A tribute paid “soon” to the French victims. Emmanuel Macron will chair a “national tribute ceremony” to the French people who died during the Hamas attack against Israel as soon as “their number and identity will be established with certainty”affirmed the Head of State in a response addressed Monday to Eric Ciotti, the president of the Les Républicains party. The latest French victim toll stands at 40 dead and eight missing, including hostages.
Gazan hospitals “out of service”. The situation is complicated around health facilities, mainly in Gaza City, at the heart of the fighting between the Israeli army and Hamas. According to the authorities, “all hospitals” of the northern Gaza Strip are now “out of service”. The Israeli army suspects the hospitals of housing strategic Hamas infrastructure, such as tunnels.
Trapped. Thousands of Palestinians still hope on Monday to leave the site of the al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, without water or electricity for several days and trapped. In a new report communicated Monday noon, the Deputy Minister of Health of the Hamas government affirms that “seven premature babies” And “27 patients in intensive care” died due to lack of electricity.
A medical evacuation convoy had to turn around on its way to al-Quds hospital, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. The organization cites “constant bombing” and an “dangerous situation around the establishment”, located in the town of Tal Al-Hawa. She adds that the medical team, as well as patients and their relatives, are still surrounded in the hospital, deprived of food, water and electricity.
Hope for the hostages. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Sunday in an interview with NBC the possibility of an agreement to release some of the approximately 240 hostages kidnapped by Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. A condition according to him to any ceasefire.