World Health Organization chief says he ‘lost contact’ with Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital

• The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed alarm early Sunday that “lost contact” with his interlocutors at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, the largest in the territory, object of“repeated attacks”. Earlier, he claimed that half of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip were not functioning ” not at all “ and “more than 250 attacks” had targeted the health sector in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since the start of the war.
• The Israeli army denied on Saturday having bombed Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. “In the last hours, false information has been spread that we are surrounding and bombing Al-Shifa Hospital, Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari told the press. (…) Hamas lies about what is happening in hospitals. » The Israeli army further promised to help evacuate the babies from Al-Shifa Hospital.
• Leaders of Muslim countries on Saturday rejected Israel’s argument to ” self-defense “ and requested a resolution “binding” of the United Nations to end “aggression” Israeliin a joint statement issued at the end of the summit bringing together members of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, in Riyadh.
• Hassan Nasrallah, secretary general of Hezbollah, claimed that the Shiite Islamist organization had started using new weapons in attacks that it has been waging daily against Israel since the start of the war in Gaza, including suicide drones, “for the first time in the history of resistance in Lebanon”, did he declare. This was his second speech since October 7. Yoav Gallant, Israeli defense minister, later warned Hezbollah: “What we can do in Gaza, we can also do in Beirut.”
• The extension of the war between Israel and Hamas into Gaza is “now inevitable”said the Iranian foreign minister on Friday, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, ally of the Palestinian Islamist movement. In addition to the Palestinians of Hamas and Islamic Jihad engaged in the war in Gaza, Tehran supports Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels of Yemen, who announced having launched several missiles towards Israeli territory.
• Israeli planes strike Syria after firing on the annexed Golan. “Recently ago, in response to the attack on the Golan Heights [samedi]fighter jets hit terrorist infrastructure in Syria »the Israeli army announced early Sunday morning.
• Emmanuel Macron denounces “the unbearable resurgence of unbridled anti-Semitism”. “No tolerance for the intolerable”promises Emmanuel Macron in a “letter to the French” published Saturday evening by The Parisianon the eve of the civic march against anti-Semitism, in which he will not participate.
• In London, some 300,000 people took part in a pro-Palestinian march on Saturday, according to police, who said it was “of the most important march” organized in the British capital since the start of the war.
• After the war, Benjamin Netanyahu wants ” something else “ than the Palestinian Authority. “There cannot be an authority headed by someone who, more than 30 days after the massacre [du 7 octobre]still has not condemned him (…). Something else will be needed there. But, in all cases, security must be under our control”declared the Israeli Prime Minister on Saturday during a televised speech.
• Since the start of the conflict, 11,078 people were killed by bombings in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-led Gaza health ministry announced Friday. The war also made at least 1,200 dead on the Israeli side according to a latest downward assessment, the majority of civilians killed on the day of the Hamas attack, according to the Israeli authorities.

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