The Hamas Health Ministry announced on Saturday the deaths of more than 80 people in two Israeli army strikes on a UN-run refugee camp in Jabaliya, in the fighting-devastated northern Gaza Strip. between Israel and the Islamist movement.
This strike occurred “at dawn, on al-Fakhoura school“, a ministry official told AFP. Images posted on social networks show bodies, some covered in blood, others in dust, on the floors of the building, where mattresses had been installed under tables of schoolchildren.
The President of the European Commission opposes the “forced displacement” of Palestinians
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenaffirmed on Saturday that she was opposed to the “forced displacement” of the Palestinians after meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi in Cairo, against the backdrop of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
“I discussed the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza with President Sissi, thanked Egypt for its role in providing and facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid to vulnerable Palestinians,” said Mrs von der Leyen on X (formerly Twitter).
“We agree on the principle of non-forced displacement of Palestinians and on a political horizon based on a two-state solution”, Israeli and Palestinian, she added.
The President of the European Commission then went to Sinai, the governor of this region bordering Israel and Gaza announced in a press release.
“The President of the Commission arrived at Al-Arich airport, she will go to the Rafah crossing point, inspect humanitarian aid and visit injured Palestinians in hospitals” in this eastern region from Egypt, according to the same source.
No “meaningful” break before hostages are released: US official
A pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas and a “significant” increase in humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip will occur when the hostages are released, a senior US official in Bahrain said on Saturday.
The situation in the Palestinian territory, shelled and besieged by Israel for 43 days after an attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on its soil, is “horrible” and “intolerable”, recognized the first adviser to the American president for the Middle East, Brett McGurk.
But “the influx of humanitarian aid, the influx of fuel (and) a pause in the fighting will take place when the hostages are released,” he added during the annual security forum organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
According to him, Joe Biden spoke on this subject on Friday with the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, whose country is a key mediator in the negotiations aimed at freeing a number of the 240 hostages kidnapped and taken to Gaza on October 7.
The attack carried out that day by the Palestinian Islamist movement left 1,200 dead in Israel, mainly civilians, according to the Israeli authorities.
On the Palestinian side, the war has left 12,000 dead, according to the Hamas government, which took power in Gaza in 2007.
A first group of children injured in Gaza evacuated to the Emirates
A Palestinian boy is stretchered off a plane to Abu Dhabi. He was one of the first wounded in the war between Israel and Hamas to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip to the United Arab Emirates to receive emergency medical treatment, as part of a humanitarian mission organized by the country.
He arrived in the middle of the night at the Egyptian airport of Al-Arich, near the Rafah border crossing, the only opening into the Gaza Strip which is not in the hands of Israel.
Along with eight other injured children, the boy waits in the back of one of six yellow ambulances parked near the airstrip, blue lights flashing. Some are accompanied by their families.
One of them has a fractured spine, another has a broken leg. Some suffer burns and another needs emergency treatment for cancer.
