More than 400 injured Palestinians and foreigners were evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Egypt on Wednesday.
The war between Israel and Hamas is in its 26th day, Wednesday, November 1. From the unprecedented terrorist attack of the Islamist movement on October 7 on Israeli soil, the Jewish state is now relentlessly bombing the Gaza Strip. For the second time in two days, the Jabaliya camp was bombed by Israel on Wednesday. Here’s what to remember from the day.
Jabaliya camp bombed again
The Israeli army again bombed the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, killing “tens” of people, the Hamas Ministry of Health said on Wednesday. This strike caused enormous destruction. The day before, “more than 50” Palestinians were killed in the bombing of the same camp, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health. The Israeli army confirmed this first strike which, according to it, targeted someone responsible for the October 7 attack.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Wednesday that “Israeli airstrikes” in Jabalia “could be war crimes”. For its part, France is “deeply concerned about the very heavy toll on the Palestinian civilian populations of Israeli strikes against the camp of Jabaliya”, according to a press release published Wednesday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Quai d’Orsay also reiterated “his call for an immediate humanitarian truce” in the Gaza Strip.
More than 400 injured Palestinians and foreigners left the Gaza Strip for Egypt
A total of 76 injured Palestinians and 335 foreigners and dual nationals were evacuated from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to an Egyptian official. This is the first operation of this type since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. The Egyptian authorities informed Tuesday that they were exceptionally opening the Rafah crossing to allow this first evacuation operation.
A “first group of five French nationals” is among the more than 400 people evacuated on Wednesday from the Palestinian territory of Gaza to Egypt, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. “We are continuing our efforts so that all of our compatriots, our agents and their families who wish to do so can leave Gaza as soon as possible,” adds the Quai d’Orsay, which specifies that around fifty French nationals and their families are concerned. The five French people evacuated are humanitarians, including four from Médecins sans Frontières (MSF).
Washington considers violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank “destabilizing”
The United States on Wednesday denounced violence committed by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, saying it was “incredibly destabilizing”, and urged Israel to stem them. These attacks are “counterproductive to Israel’s long-term security, in addition to being, of course, extremely damaging to Palestinians living in the West Bank”State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters.
Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, the West Bank has been plagued by an intensification of violence since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It is the scene of numerous operations by the Israeli army, abuses by Israeli settlers against the Palestinian population and Palestinian attacks against settlements and Israeli forces. More than 125 Palestinians have been killed in this territory since October 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.