2023-11-23 16:24:07
Cover image: Relatives and supporters of Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons stage a sit-in in front of the Red Cross in Ramallah, West Bank, on November 21, 2023, calling for a deal between Israel and Hamas for their release, . JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP
The truce in fighting between Israel and Hamas will come into effect on Friday morning and the first hostages will be released in the afternoon, announced Thursday the spokesperson for the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Palestinian Islamist movement has confirmed that the truce will begin on Friday at 7 a.m. (6 a.m. in Paris).The agreement reached Wednesday between the Israeli government and the Islamist group provides for the exchange of fifty women and children detained by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners as well as“a lull in the fighting” for four days.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, like his Egyptian counterparts, Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi, and American counterpart, Joe Biden, welcomed the agreement reached. This “humanitarian truce must make it possible to negotiate the conditions of a ceasefire” that must be “as sustainable as possible”, pleaded the French President, Emmanuel Macron. The UN called it ” not important “ but felt that “much remains to be done”.The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, did not wish to say whether any French people were among the hostages whom Hamas has pledged to release. The head of diplomacy declared “hope that there [ait] French people among » them ; “We are working on it and I hope that, tomorrow, I will be able to tell you: “Yes, there were French people””.In Israel, the main association of hostage families declared itself ” happy “ of the announcement of a “partial release”but said he didn’t know at the moment “who will be released and when”. The agreement was announced on the forty-seventh day of the war triggered by an attack of unprecedented scale and violence in the history of Israel carried out on October 7 by Hamas on Israeli soil. According to the authorities, 1,200 people, the vast majority civilians, were killed.The Hamas government announced Tuesday that 14,128 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli bombardments on Gaza since the start of the war. Among the deaths recorded to date are 5,840 children, the Hamas government said. In addition, 33,000 people were injured, according to the same source.The humanitarian pause will allow the entry of a “greater number of humanitarian and aid convoys, including fuel”Qatar underlined. Some 200 to 300 aid trucks will enter the enclaveincluding eight with fuel and gas, said a Hamas executive, Taher Al-Nounou.The war also raises fears of a regional escalation involving in particular the Lebanese Hezbollah in the north of Israel and the Yemeni Houthi rebels in the south. The son of Mohammad Raad, president of the Hezbollah group in the Lebanese Parliament, and four other fighters were killed Wednesday in an Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon, announced the Shiite movement allied to Hamas. Abbas Raad “fell a martyr on the road to Jerusalem”Hezbollah wrote in a statement.The United States intercepted drones launched from Yemen. A US warship patrolling the Red Sea on Thursday intercepted attack drones launched from a region of Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels, the US military command in the Middle East announced.
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