Having barely set foot in Israel, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the bloody attack launched by Hamas as“unspeakable act of terrorism”. “I am in Israel, a nation in mourning. I mourn with you and I stand with you against the scourge of terrorism. Today and forever”he wrote on, Thursday October 19. Follow our live stream.
Humanitarian aid will be able to enter the Gaza Strip no earlier than Friday. 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”, Cairo announced. However, this aid will probably not arrive before Friday due to work to be done on the road, destroyed by Israeli bombing.
Russia will soon deliver 27 tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza. “A special plane (…) flew from the Ramenskoye airfield near Moscow to the El-Arich airport in Egypt, announced the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. Russian humanitarian aid will be handed over to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent to be sent to the Gaza Strip.”
Rishi Sunak arrived in 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. While Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other after the deadly explosion at al-Ahli hospital in Gaza Tuesday evening, “the Palestinian State has deposited [mercredi] a file before the ICC [Cour pénale internationale]“specified its representative in France, Hala Abou Hassira.
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.