The Hamas Ministry of Health reported at least 50 people killed on Saturday, November 18, in an Israeli strike on a school housing displaced people in a UN-run refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip. . This strike occurred “at dawn, on the al-Fakhoura school”, a ministry official told AFP. Images posted on social networks show bodies, some covered in blood, others in dust, on the floors of the building, where mattresses had been installed under school tables. Follow our live stream.
Chaotic situation around al-Chifa hospital in Gaza. Hundreds of people left Gaza’s al-Chifa hospital on foot on Saturday, AFP noted. Israeli soldiers are carrying out, for the fourth consecutive day, a raid on this hospital. Nevertheless, “120 injured” and premature babies are still there, announced the Hamas Ministry of Health. Doctors remained in the hospital to care for patients, they said. The Israeli army, for its part, claims to have given no evacuation order but to have “responded to a request” of the hospital director. Israel believes that Hamas, in power in Gaza, uses this establishment as a military base.
Airstrike on hospital kills 26. The airstrike took place in the Hamad neighborhood. The director of the Nasser hospital in Khan Younes, in the center of the Gaza Strip, announced on Saturday that 26 people had been killed in a strike against three residential buildings in the city. This strike also left 23 seriously injured, he told AFP.
An “immediate risk of famine”. “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. 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.
New demonstration for “a ceasefire in Gaza” and the release of hostages. The Socialist Party, the French Communist Party and Europe Ecologie Les Verts (The Ecologists), as well as the CGT, FSU and Solidaires, have called for demonstrations on Saturday in Paris from 2:30 p.m. for a “immediate ceasefire in Gaza” And “the release of all the hostages”. The signatories of the press release also demand “the lifting of the blockade of Gaza”, “the end of human rights violations and colonization in the West Bank”, And “the relaunch of the peace process for the recognition of the State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel”. Other demonstrations to demand a ceasefire in Gaza are planned for Saturday afternoon in Annecy, Marseille, Strasbourg, Lille, Nantes, Rennes, Montpellier, Lyon and Bordeaux.
Surprise visit by the Minister of the Armed Forces to Qatar. According to information from franceinfo, Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of the Armed Forces, made a surprise visit to Qatar on Saturday, where he met the Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Qatari Prime Minister, Mohammed ben Abderrahmane Al-Thani. The latter leads discussions on hostages held by Hamas since October 7 and the start of the war with Israel.