19,000 pro-Palestine demonstrators marched in Paris according to the prefecture, 60,000 according to the CGT

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A procession in support of the Palestinians and against the war. The gathering organized in Paris on Saturday November 4 brought together 19,000 people according to the police headquarters, contacted by franceinfo. No damage was reported to the authorities. According to the CGT, the number of participants is rather estimated at 60,000 people. Demonstrations also took place throughout the day in Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Grenoble. Elsewhere in Europe, rallies were organized in London and Berlin in particular.

Evacuations continue from Gaza. “Nearly forty French people and their families” were able to leave the enclave through the Rafah border post (Egypt) on Saturday November 4, announced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release. “They were supported by the French embassy and the teams from the Crisis and Support Center”, specifies a press release. On Friday, 34 people and their spouses were evacuated.

Thirty nine French people died in Hamas attacks. Nine people are still missing, and “it is now confirmed that some of them are hostages of Hamas”according to a new report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The UN condemns the bombing of an ambulance which killed fifteen people in Gaza. The strike was confirmed by the Israeli army, which said it had targeted Hamas members using the vehicle, something the Palestinian Islamist organization denied. “I am horrified”reacted the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres.

After Israel, the American Secretary of State goes to Jordan. Antony Blinken is due to meet King Abdullah II of Jordan on Saturday, the day after a whirlwind visit to the Hebrew state. He is also scheduled to participate in a ministerial meeting with several Arab countries and have a bilateral meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi.


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