2023-11-16 22:41:15
Cover image: A fuel truck flying a UN flag passes through Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 15, 2023. SAID KHATIB / AFP
The Israeli army announced that it had discovered Thursday, November 16, near Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, the body of a hostage kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 raids in Israel. She was “killed by the terrorists,” according to army spokesman Daniel Hagari. In the same building, the soldiers also discovered “military equipment and Kalashnikov-type weapons as well as an RGP missile”, he added. Shortly before, the army had claimed to have found “images relating to the hostages” on computers seized from the hospital. The situation is not improving in hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The health ministry in the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip claimed that the Israeli army had struck several services, notably those of radiology, burns and dialysis, in Al-Shifa. Israeli operations continued there on Thursday: “Soldiers are searching every floor, building following building, while hundreds of patients and medical staff are still in the complex. » The Palestinian Red Crescent also reported a “violent attack” Israeli and the headquarters of the Al-Ahli hospitalin Gaza City, the establishment becoming “a simple aid station”, according to one of his surgeons. Moreover, the Indonesian hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip has stopped functioningannounced its director Thursday.One of the Israeli soldiers injured Thursday morning in the attack on a checkpoint near Jerusalem has died of his injuries, the Israeli army announced. Hamas’ armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out “to avenge the blood of the martyrs of Gaza”according to his press release. Thursday morning, three attackers “were neutralized” by the police following they “opened fire” at a security barrier linking Jerusalem to the West Bank. Seven people were injured, according to police, including six members of the security forces. All telecommunications services are once more « hors service » in the Gaza Stripannounced the Palestinian operator Paltel. “All energy sources supporting the grid are exhaustedadded the operator. And the fuel inlet [pour cette utilisation] was not authorized. » The band of “Gaza is once once more suffering from a total communications blackout, and (…) It’s because there is no fuel”, confirmed the Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini. As a result, UNRWA will not carry out cross-border humanitarian aid operations on Friday, she announced.The United Nations World Food Program has warned of the “immediate risk of famine” in the Gaza Stripwhere food and water are “as if they didn’t exist”. The executive director of the UN agency, Cindy McCain, points out the lack of fuel: “Even though trucks arrived from Egypt and were able to unload their cargo in Gaza on Tuesday, supplies did not reach civilians in shelters due to insufficient fuel available for distribution vehicles. »According to the Hamas government on Wednesday, environ 11,500 Palestinians, including 4,710 children, were killed in Israeli bombardments on the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on October 7. Additionally, 29,800 people were injured.
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