“You see Gaza from afar, you will soon see it from within,” Israeli defense minister told his troops, calling on them to “be ready” to enter the enclave

• Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi, with whom he had just spoken, had “accepted” of “leave up to twenty trucks [d’aide humanitaire] to cross “ the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing point. In the process, Egypt confirmed by a press release the passage ” sustainable “ humanitarian aid through this border post.
• Cairo has not given a date for the start of delivery of this aid. According to the American president, the first trucks will not reach Gaza before Friday due to work to be carried out on the road, destroyed by Israeli bombings.
• “Israel will not prevent humanitarian aid from Egypt as long as it involves food, water and medicine for the civilian population in the southern Gaza Strip”, for his part assured a press release from the office of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who had spoken earlier with Joe Biden, visiting Israel.
• The US president exonerated Israel over the deadly explosion at Al-Ahli hospital in downtown Gaza on Tuesday evening. He confirmed Israeli claims that the IDF was not behind the shooting. According to him, it is “an out-of-control rocket fired by a terrorist group in Gaza” which affected the hospital.
• According to the Israeli army, Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired a salvo of rockets towards Israel and one of them fell on the hospital. The Palestinian armed group called the accusations ” lies “. The explosion which hit Al-Ahli hospital caused the death of 471 people, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
• Demonstrations took place in several cities in the Maghreb and the Middle East on Tuesday and Wednesday in response to this tragedy.. Large rallies took place in Amman, Tunis, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul and Manama.
• The United States voted Wednesday against a Security Council resolution that called for a “humanitarian break” between Hamas and the Jewish stateWashington castigating a text which did not mention the “right of Israel to defend itself”.
• At least 1,400 people killed in Israel since the attack launched from the Gaza Strip by Hamas. The death toll in the Palestinian enclave is at least 3,478 peopleaccording to local authorities, who do not specify whether this assessment takes into account that of Al-Ahli hospital.
• 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”.
• Around 1 million people have been displaced in the Gaza Stripthe United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Sunday. “This figure is likely to become higher as people continue to leave their homes”, specified the UNRWA communications director. The evacuation order ordered by Israel concerns 1.1 million residents of the north of the enclave.
• The toll of French nationals killed rose further, reaching twenty-eight with seven missingthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on Thursday.

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