“I won’t mince words.” “The overwhelming majority of Palestinians are not part of Hamas.” and the Islamist movement “does not represent the Palestinian people”, declared Thursday February 22 the American president on. Joe Biden believes that the Palestinians “also suffer from Hamas terrorism.” This statement comes as the United States vetoed at the UN Security Council on Tuesday a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. Follow our live stream.
Talks about a truce continue. Negotiations led by the American envoy on a new release of hostages accompanied by a pause in hostilities in Gaza “are going well”, assured a White House spokesperson, John Kirby, on Thursday. The latter specified that the emissary had gone to Cairo (Egypt) on Wednesday and was to meet, during this day in the Hebrew state, the government as well as families of American hostages.
Incessant Israeli raids on Gaza. Around a hundred people have died in the last 24 hours in Israeli bombings on the Gaza Strip, Hamas said on Thursday. International organizations are alarmed by the catastrophic situation of some 2.4 million inhabitants besieged in the Palestinian territory.
Unrwa has reached its “breaking point”. The ability of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to fulfill its mandate “is now seriously threatened.regretted Thursday his boss, Philippe Lazzarini, due to the “Israel’s repeated calls for its dismantling and freezing of donor funding.”