2023-11-27 21:25:51
News of the day
First, the truce in Gaza was extended for 48 hours. Qatar announced it. “An agreement has been reached,” Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said on X. Hamas later confirmed that it would be extended until 7 a.m. Thursday, “with the same conditions as the previous truce. It came into force on Friday morning and was initially scheduled to end at 7 a.m. on Tuesday. It has already allowed the entry of hundreds of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, besieged and devastated by seven weeks of Israeli bombardments in retaliation for the bloody attack launched by Hamas against Israel on October 7. These supplies should therefore continue. The White House “welcomes” this extension, one of its spokespersons, John Kirby, said on Monday. Washington “would of course like the pause to be extended further, and that will depend on the release of additional hostages by Hamas,” he said.
In fact, this is the other positive news of the day: hostages must be released this Monday evening. Their families were informed. This group is the last in a series of four groups whose release was planned by the truce agreement. Its extension gives hope for other releases.
The number of the day
105. Like the number of Gazans who have been arrested by Israel and on whom the Palestinian Authority Prisoners Commission is requesting information from the Jewish state. “We fear that they were killed after being arrested and questioned,” said Qaddoura Farès, head of this government body. When questioned, the Israeli army said it “could not comment on the subject at this stage”.
Sentence of the day
The Oslo Accords no longer exist. »
The image entered the history books: on September 13, 1993, under the gaze of American President Bill Clinton, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the lawn of the White House. It was then the culmination of 14 rounds of secret talks in Oslo, co-initiated and co-organized by Jan Egeland, then state secretary at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Thirty years later, the Norwegian judges them “completely” dead. “The Oslo Accords no longer exist as such. Now we will need another agreement, and it will have to be orchestrated by the United States, the European Union and the Arab countries.” Because, for the 66-year-old former diplomat, the only possible solution comes from outside. “It is not possible for Israel and Hamas to negotiate (alone) the future of these lands. There will be no trust: Israel seeks to destroy Hamas, while Hamas is there to eliminate Israel,” he emphasizes.
Today’s trend
UN human rights experts on Monday called for independent investigations into “allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity” by all parties since the October 7 attack launched by Hamas in Israel. In a statement, Morris Tidball-Binz, United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, and Alice Jill Edwards, special rapporteur on torture, stress the need for these investigations to be “prompt, transparent and independent”. These experts are mandated by the UN Human Rights Council but do not speak on behalf of the organization.
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