Humanitarian aid trucks which have been parked for several days at the gates of the Gaza Strip will be able to enter. The American and Egyptian presidents “agreed on the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing, in a sustainable manner”, announces Cairo, on the night of Wednesday October 18 to Thursday October 19. A little earlier, Joe Biden had obtained the green light from Israel to pass humanitarian aid through this crossing point located to the south of the enclave. Follow our live stream.
The Rafah crossing operational no earlier than Friday. However, this aid will probably not arrive before Friday due to work to be done on the road, destroyed by Israeli bombing.
Rishi Sunak visits Israel on Thursday. The British Prime Minister makes the trip “to avoid further dangerous escalation in the region”. He must meet his counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
The Palestinian Authority calls for an ICC investigation. As Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other, the Palestinian Authority calls for an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the deadly explosion at al-Ahli hospital in Gaza Tuesday evening, announced its representative in France, Hala Abou Hassira. “The Palestinian State today filed [mercredi] a file before the ICC”, she said during a press briefing at the Palestinian mission in France. The representative has no doubts about the perpetrators of the strike. “Israel is solely responsible (…) This is not the first time that Israel has targeted civilian infrastructure and more particularly hospitals”.
Demonstrators take over the Capitol to demand a ceasefire. At least a hundred protesters occupied a US Congress building to demand elected officials and the Biden administration press for a ceasefire in Gaza. They staged a “sit-in” and then began to be arrested by the police. It was the organization Jewish Voice for Peace, which brings together Jewish people opposed to Israeli colonization, which called for the rally.