2023-10-18 16:18:26
While Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other, the Palestinian Authority wants an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the deadly shooting at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, its representative in France announced Wednesday, October 18, Hala Abou Hassira. “The Palestinian State filed a case before the ICC today (Wednesday)”, she said during a press briefing at the Palestinian mission in France. The representative has no doubts about the perpetrators of the strike. “Israel is solely responsible (…) This is not the first time that Israel has targeted civilian infrastructure and more particularly hospitals,” she said. Follow our live stream.
Humanitarian aid authorized into Gaza from Egypt. Israel announced that it is allowing the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip from Egypt on Wednesday, October 18, as it imposes a strict siege on the Palestinian territory and shells it relentlessly since the bloody attack of Hamas on October 7. “Israel will not prevent humanitarian aid from Egypt as long as it involves food, water and medicine for the civilian population in the southern Gaza Strip”, says the Israeli government in a press release. He specifies that he “will not authorize any humanitarian aid from its territory to the Gaza Strip” as long as the hostages taken by Hamas “will not be returned”.
Joe Biden says American “data” exonerates Israel in the destruction of al-Ahli hospital. The American president said on Wednesday that “data” shown by his team on the subject of the destruction of a hospital in Gaza exonerated Israel, accused Tuesday evening by Palestinian Hamas of being the author. Asked at a press conference why he did not believe that the IDF, the Israeli army, was responsible for the strike, Joe Biden mentioned “data shown by (its) Department of Defense”during a visit to Tel Aviv taking place the day after the explosion at this hospital.
Twenty-four French people died in the Hamas attack in Israel. Elisabeth Borne reported a new toll on Wednesday concerning the French people who died during the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel on Saturday October 7. “Twenty-four of our compatriots are dead, seven are still missing and several are probably held hostage in Gaza”, declared the Prime Minister in the Senate. Elisabeth Borne also announced that 3,500 French people have been repatriated from Israel to France over the past ten days.
At least 471 dead in hospital destruction al-Ahli de Gaza. Nearly 500 people were killed Tuesday evening in the destruction of this hospital in the Gaza Strip, according to a new report provided Wednesday afternoon by the Hamas Ministry of Health, which controls the Palestinian territory. Hamas accuses Israel of carrying out this deadly strike. For its part, Israel places the blame on Islamic Jihad, another armed Islamist organization in Gaza, which has categorically denied it. This new toll brings the total number of deaths in the Gaza Strip to nearly 3,500 since October 7, according to Hamas. This same source also reports more than 12,000 Palestinians injured.
Several thousand demonstrators in front of the French embassy in Tunis. Thousands of demonstrators gathered Wednesday in front of the French embassy in Tunis to express their anger after the destruction of a hospital in Gaza left hundreds dead. “The dismissal of the ambassador is a duty”chanted the demonstrators in particular, who accuse France and the United States of being “allies of the Zionists” in the war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas.
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