The Israeli security cabinet is due to meet on Sunday March 17, announced the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He will have to determine the position of the Israeli delegation to go to Qatar to negotiate an exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners as part of a truce in Gaza. Follow our live stream.
Upcoming negotiations in Doha. The Israeli Prime Minister summoned “the war cabinet and the security cabinet (…) tomorrow (Sunday) to decide on the mandate of the delegation in charge of the negotiations before its departure for Doha”, his office wrote in a statement. The announcement of the upcoming sending of a delegation to Qatar comes as Hamas has agreed to change its position.
Humanitarian aid continues to arrive in Gaza. The cargo of the first humanitarian aid boat to arrive in the Gaza Strip from Cyprus on Friday was unloaded on Saturday. “It is a symbolic operation which, we imagine, benefited from enormous political support at the highest level”estimated Philippe Bonnet, of the NGO Solidarités international.
The US military says it has destroyed Houthi drones in the Red Sea and Yemen. Two drones were launched Saturday morning by the Houthis towards the Red Sea, a strategic maritime route for global trade, the US Middle East Command announced. American forces “destroyed a drone”the other having probably been damaged at sea, he continues.