2023-10-21 10:39:36
10:15
Only 20 trucks were allowed to pass
After a week of intense negotiations involving the United States, Israel, Egypt and the UN, 20 trucks were allowed to cross the southern border of the Gaza Strip. This concerns medical equipment sent by the Egyptian Red Crescent organization to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The next convoy may not be allowed to cross until Monday, according to a UN official. The Israeli government requires proof that aid deliveries are not seized or diverted by Hamas, before allowing further deliveries.
10:00
A drop of water
In a statement, the Hamas media office says that aid trucks expected in the Gaza Strip, who started to pass the southern border, “will not change the catastrophic medical conditions” of the enclave.
09:46
Washington wants to strengthen Hamas’ financial targeting
As the United States seeks to further restrict financial flows to Hamas, the Biden administration is sending its top economic sanctions official to the Middle East this weekend. Brian Nelson, Treasury Department Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, will participate in a meeting of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also expected to visit Qatar, where, ironically, several Hamas leaders have lived for several years, with the agreement of the United States.
09:35
Erdogan in Egypt for peace summit
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Egypt for the peace summit being held today in Cairo.
Also expected by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, King Abdullah of Jordan, King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Emir of Qatar, Crown Prince of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal al- Ahmad al-Sabah, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who was already in Egypt yesterday, EU Council President Charles Michel and British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly .
09:30
WHO chief confirms truck passage
Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, confirms that trucks have been able to cross the Rafah border and that they are transporting medical aid.
09:22
Humanitarian aid begins flowing from Egypt to Gaza
The border was opened on both sides at the Rafah border crossing and the first trucks of Egyptian humanitarian aid, which had been waiting for several days for the green light from the Israeli authorities, were able to begin driving towards the Gaza Strip, a source reports. security and an official from the Egyptian Red Crescent to the AFP. Egyptian state television showed several trucks passing through the huge gate of the border post.
09:15
Salah al-Arouri’s house occupied by Israelis
According to Palestinian media, the Israeli army and Shin Bet security services took control of the West Bank home of the deputy head of Hamas’ political wing, Salah al-Arouri. The building, located in the town of Bani Zeid al-Sharqiya, was reportedly transformed into the Israeli intelligence headquarters.
09:10
Egypt-Gaza border open
08:47
17 employees of the UN refugee agency in Gaza killed since the start of the war
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner General of UNRA, the United Nations Refugee Agency, calls in a press release for an immediate ceasefire so that “the chaos in the gang” comes to an end.
08:45
At least 46 dead in night raids
According to Gazan authorities, 34 people were killed in two Israeli air raids on two families in Jabalia. Four children and a woman were killed in another incident, and seven other people were killed in raids in central Deir el-Balah and the al-Bureij refugee camp.
08:35
Israel calls on its citizens to immediately leave Egypt and Jordan
Due to a “worsening of demonstrations against Israel”, the Jewish state is asking its nationals to leave the two countries.
08:34
The edge of Biden
Journalists traveling with Joe Biden last night reported that the president answered “yes” to the question of whether Israel should delay the invasion of Gaza so that more hostages could be released. A little later, the White House claimed that the president had “misheard,” and only the part of the question regarding the hostages. That response, the White House brushed off, simply meant Biden wanted more hostages released.
08:22
Gaza-Egypt border opens at 10 a.m.
The United States Embassy in Jerusalem says in a message on social networks that it “received information that the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will open on Saturday, October 21 at 10 a.m. local time”, i.e. 9 hours, French time. The embassy does not know how long this opening will last but appears to affirm that “foreign citizens will be able to leave Gaza.” 200 to 300 Americans are currently on Gazan territory, according to data dating back to last week.
08:09
A summit for peace in Egypt
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi is hosting a “peace summit” in Cairo today, attended by several heads of state or government.
Al-Sissi wants at all costs to prevent Israel from avoiding the Palestinian question, by blaming the responsibility on the Muslim countries of the region. Saudi Arabia announced a week ago that it was suspending negotiations which could lead to a normalization of its relations with Israel.
08:05
Hamas hopes for prisoner exchange
Hamas says it is holding 200 hostages and that another 50 are being held by other armed groups in the Gaza Strip. It says more than 20 hostages were killed by Israeli airstrikes, but gives no further details. Its leaders have suggested that the hostages could be exchanged for around 6,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, including women and teenagers.
08:00
How many hostages remain held?
Israel has information on 203 hostages, which made it possible to notify their families. These people have Israeli nationality and often another, involving 40 countries. The Israeli military estimates that the number of hostages currently held in the Gaza Strip is higher than the number reported so far and that Israel may never know the fate of some of the missing.
Most of the hostages are held by Hamas and civilians who are not affiliated with the organization also hold soldiers.
07:53
A death in Jericho
One person was killed overnight in clashes with the Israeli army near Jericho, bringing to 84 the number of Palestinian deaths in the West Bank since October 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
07:46
Last night, the border remained closed
Despite the personal visit of UN Secretary General António Guterres, the Rafah border post, where 175 humanitarian aid trucks are waiting, was still closed yesterday evening. Joe Biden made an agreement with Benjamin Netanyahu, providing for the passage of only 20 trucks per day, but even those did not enter. Egypt says the border is open on its side.
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07:31
Biden spoke with the two hostages
Judith Tai Raanan and her daughter Natalie, released last night by Hamas, were taken to the United States embassy in Jerusalem. From there, they were able to call their loved ones and speak to the President of the United States Joe Biden.
07:22
IDF continues airstrikes
Relentlessly, the Israeli army continues to shell Hamas positions and report on them on its social networks. In addition to the usual sites known to house Hamas HQs, the strikes also hit, says the IDF, “observation, anti-aircraft and sniper positions of the terrorist organization located inside high-rise buildings “.
07:15
Two weeks ago the war started
On Saturday October 7, the Islamist movement in power in Gaza, Hamas, launched an offensive of unprecedented scale, penetrating Israeli territory into villages and kibbutzim, methodically shooting down the people it encountered, kidnapping around 22 others. The leader of the Ezzedine Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed this operation as the “Al-Aqsa Flood”, to punish the Jewish state, according to him, for all its crimes. Initially surprised, the Israeli defense forces launched their “Iron Swords” response, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising to “eliminate Hamas”.
07:10
“Nothing allows” to designate “an Israeli strike” on the Gaza hospital, indicates French military intelligence
“Nothing allows us to say” that it was “an Israeli strike” which fell on the Gaza hospital on Tuesday, a tragedy for which Israel and Hamas still blame each other, the Military Intelligence Directorate said on Friday. French (DRM). “The most likely hypothesis is a Palestinian rocket which exploded with a charge of around five kilos,” the DRM told the press, according to its own analyzes made public at the request of the French presidency for the sake of transparency.
07:05
Two American hostages released
In what would be a first, Hamas released Judith and Natalie Raanan, an American woman and her daughter held hostage in Gaza, “for humanitarian reasons” on Friday evening. The decision follows “mediation by Qatar”, a country known to be close to Hamas, said the military spokesperson for the Islamist movement. They arrived in Israel in the evening, the Israeli government announced.
07:00
30 French people dead in Hamas attack
The toll of French victims killed in Hamas attacks against Israel has risen again with a total of 30 dead and seven still missing, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday. Some of the missing “are hostages of Hamas”, indicated the Quai d’Orsay.
06:55
Gazans await international aid
The besieged and bombed Gazans are desperately awaiting the entry of the first convoys of international aid, a question for them “of life or death”, according to the United Nations, which is counting, like Washington, on the start of delivery on Saturday at earlier.
06:50
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This new direct will be devoted to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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