Israeli forces stormed a hospital in Khan Younes, a town in the south of the Gaza Strip, on Friday February 9. The IDF has been besieging this establishment for several weeks, announced the Palestinian Red Crescent. “The occupying forces [israéliennes, NDLR] stormed Al-Amal hospital and started searching it”, and “we are having difficulty communicating with our teams inside”, indicated the NGO in a press release. Earlier this week, the Red Crescent said that 8,000 people who had sought refuge in Al-Amal and its nearby local headquarters had been evacuated. Follow our live stream.
Salvos of rockets launched during the night from Lebanon towards northern Israel. These strikes come shortly after an Israeli airstrike against a military leader of Lebanese Hezbollah. For its part, the United States has carried out new bombings against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Joe Biden considers Israel’s response “excessive”. “I think, as you know, that the response in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip, has been excessive”, declared the President of the United States, in remarks particularly critical of Israel. Washington warned of a “disaster” in Rafah and assured not to support an operation in this city in the south of the Gaza Strip, which shelters more than a million displaced people, “without serious and credible planning” regarding civilians on site.
A “new round of negotiations” has started in Cairo. An agreement at the end of November allowed a one-week pause in the fighting. In Cairo, a “new round of negotiations”sponsored by Egypt and Qatar with the participation of Hamas, began Thursday to obtain “calm in the Gaza Strip” as well as an exchange of Palestinian prisoners and hostages, according to an Egyptian official.