2023-10-27 19:02:55
Tension is still rising in the Middle East. The Israeli army carried out intense bombings on Friday, October 27 in the evening, “unprecedented” since the start of the war, in the north of the Gaza Strip, particularly in Gaza City, according to images from AFP and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. At the same time, communications and internet were cut in the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas government. The military wing of Hamas announced that it had fired “salvos of rockets” towards Israel in response. Follow our live stream.
A Red Cross medical team has just arrived in Gaza, announced Friday, October 27, a spokesperson for the association. Accompanying a humanitarian convoy of several aid trucks, it includes several doctors specializing in war injuries.
Emmanuel Macron calls for a humanitarian truce. The French president affirmed Friday from the European Council in Brussels that a “Humanitarian truce is useful today to be able to protect populations on the ground”. France also hopes “evacuate as soon as possible” its nationals present in the Gaza Strip.
Rocket fire towards Israel. Salvos of rockets were fired from Gaza towards central Israel and Tel Aviv. A 20-year-old man was injured and hospitalized, Israeli emergency services said.
IDF accuses Hamas of ‘waging war from Gaza hospitals’. “There is fuel in hospitals and Hamas uses it for its terrorist infrastructure”army spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Friday. “Terrorists move freely” in hospitals in the Palestinian territory, he added, repeating the Israeli accusation that Hamas is using the population of Gaza as “human shield”. Hamas, for its part, denied this. “The allegations made by the spokesperson for the enemy’s army are completely unfounded”it is written in a press release.
Demonstration of support for Gaza in the occupied West Bank. Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated on Friday in the streets of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, in support of the population of the Gaza Strip.
New ground incursion by the Israeli army into the Gaza Strip. “Tonight there was a new raid” of the IDF against Hamas, Olivier Rafowicz, spokesperson for the Israeli army, said on franceinfo on Friday. This raid “land” was “punctual, limited in time and space”, he clarified. IDF has “eliminated Hamas terrorist elements, including cells that use the edge of the border with Israel to fire anti-tank missiles at our forces.” In addition to this incursion, the army claimed to have bombed Hamas sites “throughout the Gaza Strip”.
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