The Deputy Minister of Health of the Hamas government announced that “all hospitals” of the northern Gaza Strip, where fighting takes place between the Israeli army and Hamas fighters, were now “out of service”. Since Friday, the situation has been complicated around health establishments, mainly in Gaza City, at the heart of the fighting. The Israeli army suspects the hospitals of housing strategic Hamas infrastructure, such as tunnels. Follow our live stream.
Trapped. Thousands of Palestinians still hope on Monday to leave the site of the al-Chifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, without water or electricity for several days and trapped in fighting between Hamas and the Israeli army. Hamas government deputy health minister says “six premature babies” And “nine patients in intensive care” died due to lack of electricity.
A new report from the IDF. The Israeli army announced the death of two new soldiers in the fighting in the Gaza Strip, bringing to 44 the total of its soldiers killed in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Hamas. Six Israeli soldiers were also killed on the Lebanese border in the north of the country.
The dramatic humanitarian situation. The Palestinian territory, where more than 1.5 of the 2.4 million inhabitants have been displaced according to the UN, has been subject to a total siege imposed by Israel since October 9, depriving the population of water, electricity , food and medicine.
Hope for the hostages. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised Sunday in an interview with NBC the possibility of an agreement to free some of the approximately 240 hostages kidnapped by Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip, a condition according to him for any cease-fire .