2024-02-06 19:07:08
To better understand the latest events in the conflict between the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Israel, 20 Minutes takes stock every evening. Between the strong declarations, the diplomatic advances or the dramatic results of the fighting, here are the main points of the day.
The fact of the day
The Palestinian Hamas Health Ministry said on Tuesday that an Israeli strike had killed several police officers who, according to witnesses, were securing the passage of a humanitarian aid truck in the far south of the Gaza Strip. “Six Palestinian police officers were killed after the Israeli occupation targeted their vehicle in the Khirbet al-Adas neighborhood of Rafah,” the ministry said in a statement.
Witnesses told AFP that these police officers were securing the passage of a truck carrying flour when Israeli aircraft hit their vehicle, throwing “pieces” of the passengers’ bodies. An AFP photographer present at the scene saw blood staining part of the car with its deformed bodywork, but on the hood of which a police badge could be seen.
The emergency services took away a body with a shroud blanket, in an ambulance which was also damaged. Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army had not responded by the end of the afternoon.
The number of the day
8,000. This is the number of people evacuated Monday from al-Amal hospital in southern Gaza, surrounded by fighting. But around 300 other people are still there, including elderly people, the Red Cross said on Tuesday.
“The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is more than catastrophic,” said a spokesperson for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Tommaso Della Longa, during a briefing. press office in Geneva. “8,000 displaced people who had found refuge in our Palestinian Red Crescent hospital in Khan Younes, Al-Amal, left the hospital yesterday [lundi] “, he indicated. “There are currently still around a hundred elderly and disabled people who have not been able to leave the hospital, 80 patients and 100 staff and volunteers. They are still inside,” he said.
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Sentence of the day
“We continue to believe that an agreement is possible and even essential”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he will transmit to Israel on Wednesday the response from Palestinian Hamas on the draft agreement concerning the hostages still held in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attack. “There is still a lot of work to do. But we continue to believe that an agreement is possible and even essential, and we will continue to work tirelessly to achieve it,” the diplomat said in Doha on Tuesday.
Today’s trend
Towards a truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip? This Tuesday, the Palestinian Islamist movement indicated in a press release that it had submitted its response to Egyptian and Qatari mediators concerning a proposed ceasefire with Israel, which includes the fate of hostages held since October 7.
The statement does not specify the nature of this response, but Qatar claimed earlier to have received a “positive” response from Hamas “regarding the general framework of the agreement on the hostages” still held in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas attack on October 7 in Israel.
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