The bodies of six hostages were found in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, August 31, according to the Israeli army. A news for which the leader of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid, holds Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible. “Netanyahu and his death cabinet have decided not to rescue the hostages”he denounced on the social network X, calling for a general strike. For his part, the head of government threatened on Sunday to “settle one’s account” to the Palestinian Hamas. “He who kills hostages does not want an agreement” for a ceasefire and the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, he said, threatening the Palestinian Islamist movement: “We will pursue you, we will catch you and we will settle the score.” Follow our live stream.
The anti-polio campaign has begun in the Gaza Strip. “We have opened the vaccination centres and we are receiving children aged from one day to ten years old, calmly so far”said Dr. Yasser Chaabane, medical director of al-Awda Hospital. The campaign aims to vaccinate more than 640,000 children under the age of 10 in the besieged Palestinian territory. On Thursday, the World Health Organization announced that Israel had agreed to a series of “humanitarian breaks” to carry it out.
An armed attack in the southern West Bank. Two men and a woman were killed on Sunday in a “armed attack” in the south of the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian territory where the Israeli army is carrying out a vast operation “anti-terrorist”Israeli rescue services reported. Already on the night of Friday to Saturday, two attacks carried out by Palestinians had targeted Jewish settlements in the same region.
Ship attacked off Yemen. Houthi rebels said Saturday they had carried out an attack on a merchant ship off the coast of Yemen. They have been carrying out attacks on ships they believe to be linked to Israel since November, saying they were acting in solidarity with the Palestinians amid the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.