2023-12-03 12:44:54
Efforts to free hostages still held by Palestinian Hamas continue. “The UK Ministry of Defense will carry out surveillance flights over the Eastern Mediterranean, including airspace over Israel and Gaza”announced the ministry in a statement published Saturday December 2. These planes “will not be armed” et “will not have a combat role”assures the ministry, and “only information relating to the release of hostages will be transmitted”. Follow our live stream.
Israel announces strike “more than 400 targets” in two days. The Israeli army continues to bomb the Gaza Strip, after the end of the humanitarian truce Friday morning which allowed the release of around a hundred hostages held by Hamas, in exchange for that of 240 Palestinian prisoners in Israel, and facilitated access of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli strike kills at least seven people in Rafah, according to Hamas. A dawn strike this morning left at least seven dead in the Rafah area, at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, near the border with Egypt, the Hamas government said. A report that franceinfo cannot confirm, due to lack of independent verification on site.
Hundreds of people demonstrate in Tel Aviv to demand the release of 137 Hamas hostages. Four ex-hostages spoke to the crowd via video broadcast to recount their conditions of captivity. “Our daughters saw things that children of this age, or any age, should not see”said Danielle Aloni, 45, released on November 24 with her five-year-old daughter.
“Rocket barrages” fired on Israel. The armed wing of Hamas and its affiliated Islamic Jihad announced that they had fired on Saturday “rocket barrages” targeting several cities in Israel, including Tel Aviv. For its part, the Israeli army reported “more than 250 rockets” fired and two soldiers killed on Saturday, the first since the resumption of fighting.
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