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Emmanuel Macron questioned Benyamin Netanyahu, Sunday November 19, on the “too many civilian casualties” caused in the Gaza Strip currently, announced the Elysée in a press release. “The President of the Republic drew the attention of the Israeli Prime Minister to the humanitarian risks and the too many civilian losses linked to the military operations underway in the Gaza Strip. He reminded him of the absolute need to distinguish terrorists from population and provide effective protection to civilians”reports the French presidency.
Emmanuel Macron “condemned” “the violence against Palestinian civilians” in the West Bank. The head of state also met with the president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas. With the Palestinian leader, Emmanuel Macron “condemned the violence” committed “against Palestinian civilians” in the West Bank, said the French presidency. “The two presidents agreed on the importance of doing nothing to weaken the West Bank. The Head of State recalled France’s support for the Palestinian Authority, the only legitimate authority to represent the Palestinian people”continued the Elysée.
The Israeli army releases videos it claims show hostages at al-Chifa hospital. The Israeli army released images on Sunday evening presented as coming from the surveillance cameras of the al-Chifa hospital in Gaza and showing hostages being brought into the premises of the establishment on October 7. “These findings prove that the Hamas terrorist organization used the al-Shifa hospital complex as a terrorist infrastructure on the day of the massacre”, assured the army and Israeli intelligence in a press release. The authenticity of these videos and the information relayed could not be verified.
The “horrible events” occurring in Gaza “beyond comprehension”, warns the UN. “The Horrible Events” occurred in the last 48 hours in Gaza “beyond understanding”declared Sunday, November 19, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, who believes that certain actions of the Israeli army could constitute “war crimes”. “The killing of so many people in schools turned into shelters, hundreds of people fleeing al-Chifa hospital for their lives while thousands more continue to be displaced in southern Gaza, are actions which go against the basic protections that international law must grant to civilians”, he warned in a press release. Follow our live stream.
Doctors Without Borders condemns a “deliberate attack” against one of its convoys. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) condemned “with the greatest firmness” Sunday in a press release “a deliberate attack” Saturday against one of its convoys which was evacuating personnel and their families to the Gaza Strip. The attack left one dead and one injured.
More than 30 premature babies evacuated from al-Chifa hospital in Gaza. The infants were taken from the establishment, Mohammed Zaqout, director general of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, announced to AFP on Sunday. According to him, “three doctors and two nurses accompany them” And “preparations are underway to evacuate them to Egypt” via the Rafah crossing, the only opening to the world of the Palestinian territory which is not in the hands of Israel, at war against the Islamist movement Hamas in power in the Gaza Strip. The al-Chifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, targeted by Israeli raids, has become a “death zone”, denounced the World Health Organization (WHO) which requested his evacuation.
France will “evacuate” “injured or sick children” from the Gaza Strip to accommodate them in its hospitals. France will mobilize “all means at his disposal” For “contribute to evacuating injured or sick children from the Gaza Strip to its hospitals who need urgent care,” announced the Elysée on Sunday in a press release. “Medical air assets, both civilian and military, will be deployed for this purpose”, specifies the Elysée. In this press release, the Elysée also announces “a new charter of a plane carrying more than 10 tonnes of medical cargo for the start of the week”.
“Very minor challenges” remain over the release of the hostages. The conclusion of an agreement on the release of hostages kidnapped by the Palestinian movement Hamas during its October 7 attack on Israel now rests on practical questions “minors”, the Qatari Prime Minister said on Sunday, without providing a timetable. “The challenges that remain in the negotiations are very minor (…) They are more logistical, they are more practical”declared Mohammed ben Abdelrahmane Al-Thani, during a press conference in Doha, alongside the head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell.