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, November 18, 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.
Then the Israeli soldiers who were carrying out, for the fourth consecutive day, a raid on the al-Chifa hospital in Gaza, ordered its evacuation via loudspeaker. “within an hour”, reported an AFP journalist on site. Currently, according to the UN, 2,300 patients, caregivers and displaced people are in this establishment and international concern is growing for their fate. Israel assures that Hamas, in power in Gaza, uses this establishment as a military base. Follow our live stream.
Fuel begins to enter Gaza. A first delivery of fuel arrived in the Gaza Strip on Friday to restart the electricity generators of hospitals and telecommunications networks in the besieged territory. At the request of the United States, Israel authorized the daily entry of two tanker trucks into the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority, responsible for the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian border, announced Friday evening that 17,000 liters of fuel had been delivered to power the generators of the Gazan telecommunications company.
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.
Surprise visit by the Minister of the Armed Forces to Qatar. According to information from franceinfo, Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of the Armed Forces, is making a surprise visit to Qatar on Saturday, where he is due to meet 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. According to information from franceinfo, the humanitarian aspect will also be discussed between the three men.
New demonstration for “a ceasefire in Gaza” and the release of hostages. The Socialist Party, the French Communist Party and Europe Ecologie Les Verts, 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.