bombings kill thirty-five people in the south of the Gaza Strip, according to the director of hospitals in the enclave

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military’s efforts to ” a minimal number of civilian casualties” in Gaza they were not “not successful”. “We are doing everything possible to keep civilians out of danger, while Hamas fighters are doing everything to put them in danger”he explained during an interview on the American channel CBS News.
• According to Mr. Netanyahu, there were “strong indications” that Hamas hostages were being held in Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. This is one of the reasons that pushed the Israeli army to enter and lay siege to the establishment since Wednesday, he told CBS News. ” If [des otages] were there, they were moved”affirmed Mr. Netanyahu.
• The head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, called on Israel on Thursday to take measures “urgent” to end settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. In this territory occupied since 1967 by Israel, more than 190 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers since the Hamas attack on October 7, according to the Palestinian health ministry. During the night from Thursday to Friday, an Agence France-Presse team reported a major Israeli operation in the Jenin camp, a stronghold of Palestinian armed movements, in the West Bank.
• Israeli airstrikes early Friday resulted in ” damage “ near Damascus, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported. Syrian air defense intercepted several of these Israeli missiles.
• “We are close to destroying the military system that existed in the northern Gaza Strip. We will finish this”Israeli Chief of Staff General Herzi Halevi said Thursday, almost six weeks after the start of the offensive launched in the Palestinian enclave in response to the Hamas attack on October 7.
• The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) will not carry out cross-border humanitarian aid operations on Friday, she announced Thursday eveningas a result of the total cut of communications in the Gaza Strip.
• The situation is not improving in hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The health ministry in the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip claimed that the Israeli army had struck several services, notably those of radiology, burns and dialysis, in Al-Shifa. Israeli operations continued there on Thursday: “Soldiers are searching every floor, building after building while hundreds of patients and medical staff are still in the complex. » The Palestinian Red Crescent also reported a “violent attack” Israeli and the headquarters of the Al-Ahli hospitalin Gaza City, the establishment becoming “a simple aid station”, according to one of his surgeons. Moreover, the Indonesian hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip has stopped functioningannounced its director Thursday.
• The French Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, declared that he “hope” concerning the fate of the French hostages held by Hamas, after taking stock Thursday in Qatar, one of the mediators in the hostage crisis. Mr. Lecornu goes to Israel on Friday, after stops in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, then Qatar.
• The United Nations World Food Program has warned of the “immediate risk of famine” in the Gaza Stripwhere food and water are “almost non-existent”. The executive director of the UN agency, Cindy McCain, talks about the lack of fuel: “Even though trucks arrived from Egypt and were able to unload their cargo in Gaza on Tuesday, supplies did not reach civilians in shelters due to insufficient fuel available for distribution vehicles. »
• The health ministry of Gaza, territory controlled since 2007 by Hamas, declared on Thursday that 11,470 Palestinians – including 4,707 minors and 3,155 women – were killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli strikes. Additionally, 29,800 people were injured.

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