Hamas says at least 200 people died in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital, Mahmoud Abbas declares three days of national mourning

• At least 200 people were killed Tuesday evening in an Israeli bombardment on a hospital compound in Gaza City, reported the health ministry of the Palestinian territory controlled by Hamas. In another statement, Hamas called “the international community, Arab and Muslim countries” has “assume their responsibilities and intervene immediately, not tomorrow”. Asked by Agence France-Presse, the Israeli army said it verified this information.
• US President Joe Biden will travel to Israel on Wednesday for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and to reaffirm its solidarity with Israel, announced Secretary of State Antony Blinken. On the same day, he will travel to Jordan, where he will meet King Abdullah II, the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor, met Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, on Tuesday, condemned the “glorification and celebration of violence is inhumane and detestable” of Hamas, while claiming to have with Mr. Netanyahu the possibility of a “better access for humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip”.
• Hezbollah announced the death of five of its members in southern Lebanon, Tuesday. The organization confronts the Israeli army on the border between Lebanon and the Jewish state. On Tuesday morning, the IDF announced the death of four attackers killed during a “attempt to infiltrate a terrorist squad” coming from Lebanon.
• The Israeli army announced that it had killed Ayman Nofal, a commander of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam brigades. He was also a member of the General Military Council of Al-Qassam. On the night of Monday 16 to Tuesday 17, the IDF claimed to have killed another Hamas member, Ossama Mazini, in an airstrike.
• The United Nations Security Council rejected the Russian resolution on Gaza. The text proposed by Moscow, which condemns violence against civilians without mentioning Hamas and calls for a humanitarian ceasefire, obtained five votes for, four votes against and six abstentions, far from the nine votes required within the The body, which has fifteen members.
• Hamas released the video of a Franco-Israeli hostage it is holding in the Gaza Strip. The 21-year-old girl’s name is Mia Schem. Visibly injured in the arm, she explains that she was at the rave party attacked in the early hours of the Hamas raid on Israeli soil, on October 7. “Please get me out of here as quickly as possible”she concludes in her message.
• Nearly 200 people were taken hostage by Hamas, according to an updated report from the Israeli army. For its part, Hamas says it holds “between 200 and 250 people”according to Abou Obeida, spokesperson for the Ezzedine Al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Islamist movement.
• The European Union will open a humanitarian airlift to Gaza via Egypt. “Palestinians in Gaza need humanitarian aid (…). The first two flights will leave this week, and they will bring humanitarian supplies to Gaza”, said M^me von der Leyen from Tirana, Albania. Saturday, Ursula von der Leyen announced to triple humanitarian aid to Gazabringing it from 25 million to 75 million euros.
• Around 1 million people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip by war, the United Nations (UN) agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Sunday. “This figure is likely to rise as people continue to leave their homes”, specified the UNRWA communications director. The evacuation order given by Israel concerns 1.1 million inhabitants of the north of the enclave.
• No ceasefire is in progress in the Gaza Strip, said Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, but a temporary cessation of attacks on evacuation routes has been decided, according to Israeli forces. They “will refrain from targeting areas delimited from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.”declared an army spokesperson, on the social network X (ex-Twitter), Monday morning.
• The UN Secretary-General, for his part, urged Israel to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.. “Gaza lacks water, electricity and other essential supplies”alerted Antonio Guterres in a press release Sunday evening, where he also said that the Middle East is “on the edge of the abyss”. He also again demanded the immediate release of the hostages by Hamas.
• At least 1,400 people, mostly civilians, killed in Israel since the attack, launched on Saturday October 7, on the Gaza Strip by Hamas. The number of deaths in the Hamas-controlled enclave rose to 2,750according to a latest assessment.
• The toll of French nationals killed in Hamas attacks against Israel has risen further, reaching 21 dead and 11 missingthe French foreign ministry reported on Tuesday.

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