2023-11-08 07:32:24
► “There will be no Israeli occupation” in Gaza, says a senior Israeli official
“Israel will not reoccupy the Gaza Strip”said Ron Dermer, Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, on the evening of Tuesday, November 7, during an interview on the American channel MSNBC.
“We (Israel, Editor’s note) withdrew completely from Gaza 17 years ago and we recovered a terrorist state. We cannot repeat this, it is obvious. Once Hamas is no longer in power and its infrastructure is dismantled, Israel must have overall security responsibility for an indefinite period.said Ron Dermer, who serves as an observer in the Israeli war cabinet.
Asked how this responsibility will be organized, Ron Dermer acknowledged that the question remains open but affirmed “that it will not be an occupation”.
► MSF announces the death of one of its employees in a bombing in the Gaza Strip
The organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) deplored on the evening of Tuesday, November 7, the death of one of its employees in Gaza, killed with several of his relatives in an Israeli bombardment on the Chati refugee camp on November 6.
Mohammed Al Ahel, a laboratory technician who had worked for MSF for more than two years, was killed during a bombing on the refugee camp which led to the collapse of its building, killing dozens of people, MSF said in a message on its website.
► Nearly 60 Canadians evacuated from Gaza, according to the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nearly 60 Canadians were evacuated Tuesday, after several days of waiting, from the Gaza Strip, relentlessly bombarded by Israel since the deadly attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, Ottawa announced.
“The first group of Canadians left Gaza. Our team of officials welcomed them on the Egyptian side of the border and are providing them with support”declared the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, on X (formerly Twitter).
► Neither ceasefire nor fuel authorized in Gaza without the release of hostages, assures Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he ruled out any ceasefire or delivery of fuel to the Gaza Strip as long as the 241 hostages held there by Hamas are not released.
“No entry of gasoline, no (Palestinian) workers in Israel and no cease-fire without the release of our hostages”said Benjamin Netanyahu in a speech.
The Gaza Strip, governed by Hamas, is being shelled relentlessly by Israel in retaliation for an unprecedented attack carried out on October 7 on Israeli soil by the Islamist movement.
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