New airstrikes launched on Rafah on the night of Wednesday February 21 to Thursday February 22 left 97 dead, according to Hamas. LThe bombings notably destroyed the al-Faruq mosque, of which only the minaret now remains standing in the middle of the ruins, noted an AFP journalist. It is in this overcrowded town, located in the south of the Gaza Strip, that the Israeli army is preparing a ground offensive. Follow our live stream.
MSF criticizes the American veto at the UN Council. The secretary general of Doctors Without Borders attacked the United States during a meeting of the UN Council. After Washington vetoed for the third time a resolution allowing the Council to demand a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Christopher Lockyear said:dismayed”, during a speech on Thursday February 22. The day before, the NGO announced that an Israeli strike against one of its residences in the south of the Gaza Strip had caused the death of two relatives of one of its employees.
Upcoming talks for a truce in Gaza. To try to break the deadlock in discussions on a truce, American President Joe Biden’s adviser for the Middle East, Brett McGurk, is expected in Israel on Thursday, after a stop in Cairo where the head of the Hamas political office, Ismaïl Haniyeh also surrendered this week.
One dead and 8 injured in attack near settlement in occupied West Bank. Three Palestinians opened fire with automatic weapons in the afternoon on vehicles in a traffic jam near the Jewish settlement of Maale Adoumim in the occupied West Bank, killing one person and wounding eight others. Since the start of the war in Gaza, the West Bank has been the scene of attacks perpetrated by Palestinians against Israelis, and almost daily raids by the Israeli army, often deadly. Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip, applauded the attack, calling it “natural response to the massacres and crimes of the occupation in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.”