what to remember from Saturday, November 18

The war between Israel and Hamas entered its 43rd day on Saturday November 18. The evacuation of al-Chifa hospital, the largest in Gaza, began, as Hamas claimed that more than 80 people had died in strikes on the Jabaliya refugee camp, run by UN. Franceinfo takes stock of the information to remember from the day.

Evacuation of al-Chifa hospital begins in northern Gaza

Several hundred people, including many injured, were evacuated on foot on Saturday from the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, after receiving orders from the Israeli army, according to the director of the establishment and a AFP journalist on site. This is where many sick people, doctors and displaced people were.

The Israeli army denied ordering the evacuation, saying it had “responded to a request” of the hospital director. Israel claims that Hamas uses this establishment as a military base, which the movement denies.

Hamas has reported a new human toll since October 7

According to the latest report from the Hamas government, 12,300 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombings on the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, including 5,000 children and 3,300 women. No source can support these figures with certainty.

The Hamas attack left 1,200 dead, mostly civilians killed on October 7, according to Israeli authorities. The Israeli military estimates that around 240 people were taken hostage. According to her, 51 soldiers have been killed in the Palestinian territory since October 7.

Two strikes on refugee camp kill more than 80 people, says Hamas

The Hamas health ministry announced the deaths of more than 80 people on Saturday in two separate Israeli strikes on the UN-run Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The first strike left 50 dead in a school in the camp, the largest in the territory. The second, on a house, killed 32 members of the same family, including 19 children. “We are receiving appalling images of numerous deaths and injuries once again in a UNRWA school sheltering thousands of displaced people”, reacted the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), Philippe Lazzarini. According to the Israeli army, “the area houses the command and control of the Northern Gaza Brigade” of Hamas.

Furthermore, in Khan Younes, in the south of the Palestinian territory, the director of the Nasser hospital announced that 26 people had died in an airstrike against three residential buildings.

Hostage March Arrives in Jerusalem

Thousands of relatives of hostages held in Gaza arrived in Jerusalem on foot on Saturday, after several days of walking from Tel Aviv. The families of the hostages criticize the Israeli government for not providing them with information on the efforts made to obtain the release of the hostages.

Airstrike kills five Fatah fighters in West Bank

Five Palestinian fighters from President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement were killed in a rare airstrike on Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent and Fatah sources said. The Israeli army said it had “eliminated a number of terrorists in Balata”the Nablus refugee camp, which houses 24,000 people, according to the UN which manages it.

New fuel deliveries made to Gaza

After the green light given by Israel, a shipment of 17,000 liters of fuel arrived in the Gaza Strip on Friday then 127,000 liters on Saturday, according to the Rafah Crossing Authority, between Egypt and the Palestinian territory. The UN urgently requested the delivery of fuel to operate generators in hospitals, pump and purify water.

An “immediate risk” of famine in Gaza, according to the UN

The population of the Gaza Strip faces “at immediate risk of starvation”warned, for its part, the World Food Program (WFP) of the United Nations. “We are not asking for the moon. We are asking for the basic measures necessary to meet the essential needs of the civilian population and stem the course of this crisis”protested the head of UN humanitarian operations Martin Griffiths, in a video intervention in New York.

There is a “urgent need to improve the humanitarian situation” in the Gaza Strip, declared German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

New pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Paris and several cities in France

In France, after a first wave of bans decided by the public authorities, pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched for the third consecutive weekend, sometimes braving, as in Paris, pouring rain. According to the CGT, one of the main French unions which had relayed the collective’s calls for demonstrations for a just and lasting peace between Palestinians and Israelis, 100,000 people took to the streets in the country, including 60,000 in Paris where several party representatives leftists were present in the procession.

The European Commission says it is opposed to the “forced displacement” of Palestinians

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said she was opposed to “forced displacement” Palestinians after meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi in Cairo. According to the UN, 1.65 million residents of the Gaza Strip have been displaced by the war.