2023-11-05 11:02:00
The top American diplomat met with Arab leaders this Saturday. This is what you should know about the war between Israel and Hamas
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with foreign ministers from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Qatar, as well as the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, on November 4 in Amman, Jordan. (Jonathan Ernst/Archyde.com)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on a multinational trip this Saturday after visiting Israel for the third time since the Hamas attack on October 7.
Meanwhile, a US official told CNN that Hamas is preventing foreign citizens from leaving Gaza after an Israeli airstrike on an ambulance on Friday.
Here’s what you should know:
Blinken meets with Arab leaders: America’s top diplomat has reiterated his country’s rejection of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, instead calling once again for “humanitarian pauses” to bring aid to Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government opposes any temporary ceasefire in Gaza unless Hamas releases all hostages it is holding, adding that it will continue to block the entry of fuel. to the enclave.
Blinken met with foreign ministers from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Qatar, as well as the secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Egyptian and Jordanian leaders made comments after the meetings strongly condemning Israel’s offensive. Blinken, who acknowledged differences with Arab leaders over their approaches to the conflict, will also travel to Turkey.
Hamas prevents foreigners from leaving, official says: Hamas is preventing foreign citizens from leaving Gaza until Israel ensures that ambulances from the Palestinian enclave can reach the Rafah crossing into Egypt, a US official familiar with the situation told CNN on Saturday.
The lawsuit comes after Israel admitted on Friday that it attacked an ambulance outside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, the enclave’s largest medical center. The vehicle was in a convoy heading to Rafah, which is the only remaining option to enter and exit Gaza during Israel’s siege of the territory. Israel claimed the ambulance was being used by Hamas fighters, something the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry in Gaza has rejected.
More than 700 foreigners were expected to leave Gaza through the Rafah crossing this Saturday, according to an official source on the Egyptian side of the crossing.
CNN reported on Friday that initial efforts to ensure safe passage for foreigners in Gaza were hampered in part because Hamas included its own members on a list of wounded Palestinians designated to pass through the Rafah crossing, according to a senior US official.
UN chief on ambulance attack on Israel: The Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, said in a statement that he was “horrified” by the attack, while calling for a ceasefire and the release of the hostages.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, accused Guterres of rushing to comment “without even bothering to ask” about the context of the attack. “You completely ignore the fact that Hamas intentionally exploits ambulances for terrorist purposes,” Erdan wrote Saturday in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Attacks near hospitals and school shelters: Israeli airstrikes damaged a building located in front of the emergency entrance to Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, wounding 21 people, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said on Saturday.
A U.N.-run school serving as a shelter in a refugee camp north of Gaza City was also attacked on Saturday, according to the main U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees in Gaza.
Humanitarian situation: It is estimated that the number of people who have fled from the north of Wadi Gaza to the southern part of the enclave ranges between 800,000 “to perhaps a million,” reported this Saturday the United States special envoy for humanitarian issues in the Middle East, David Satterfield. . No new fuel has arrived in Gaza since the war began, he said.
The United States is considering establishing field hospitals in southern Gaza, Satterfield said, and Israel is working with countries to place hospital ships off the coast of Gaza.
IDF says Hamas fired on safe route: The Israeli military accused Hamas of using an advertisement calling on Gaza residents to move safely to the south as an opportunity to fire on Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers.
The IDF had asked Gaza residents through its Arabic account on pm, local time. It is unclear how many Gaza residents had access to the Internet to view the message.
Türkiye is the last to withdraw its ambassador: Turkey has recalled its ambassador to Israel for “consultations” due to the “humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Gaza” and continued Israeli airstrikes, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Several other countries, including Honduras, Colombia, Chile and Bahrain, have also recalled their ambassadors.
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