Fuel shortage poses ‘catastrophic’ risk to Gaza’s health system, WHO warns

“Only 90,000 liters of fuel entered Gaza yesterday”wrote the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the social network X on Thursday, July 4. The health sector alone needs 80,000 liters per day, “which forces the UN – including the WHO – and their partners to make impossible choices“, he asserts. Follow our live coverage.

Israel returns to negotiating table in Qatar for ceasefire in Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday ordered the head of Mossad to travel to Qatar to participate in these new discussions which could lead to the release of the hostages held by Hamas. “The Prime Minister informed (US) President Biden of his decision to send a delegation to continue negotiations for the release of the hostages,” his office said, without specifying where the discussions were to take place.

Israeli raid underway in West Bank city of Jenin, at least five dead. The Palestinian Authority announced on Friday the death of five Palestinians in an Israeli raid in Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank, an area where the Israeli army has announced it is carrying out a “anti-terrorist operation”The Palestinian Health Ministry identified four of the dead as young men aged between 20 and 30. The identity of the fifth dead man was not yet known.

Lebanese Hezbollah fired more than 200 rockets and explosive drones at northern Israel and the occupied Golan on Thursday. This attack, carried out in retaliation for the death of a senior commander of the Lebanese Shiite movement, is the most significant carried out by the Shiite group since the start of the war, a UN force official in Lebanon told franceinfo.


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