what to remember from Monday, November 27

Qatar announced that the truce in the Gaza Strip, which was due to end Tuesday evening, has been extended by two days.

New hope in the war between Israel and Hamas. Qatar announced, Monday, November 27, “that an agreement was reached to extend the truce for two more days in the Gaza Strip”announced the spokesperson for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, on. In addition, eleven new hostages, all dual nationals, including three French, were released in the evening. Here’s what to remember from this day.

Truce extended according to Hamas and Qatar

Qatar announced, on the last day of a truce in the fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, that it would be extended by two days. “An agreement has been reached”said Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al Ansari on X. Information confirmed by Hamas, which specified that it would be extended until Thursday 7 a.m. local time, “with the same conditions as the previous truce”.

The initial agreement provided for a humanitarian truce, the release of 50 hostages held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for 150 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, as well as the daily entry of aid into Gaza. Hamas thus affirmed “working on a new hostage list” to be released as part of the extension of the truce.

Eleven hostages, including three French, released

In addition to the extension of this truce, eleven Israeli hostages kidnapped on October 7 have arrived in Israel, the Israeli army said in a statement. Among these binational hostages, there are three French, six Argentinians and two Germans, Qatar said on X.

Among the French are Eitan Yahalomi, 12 years old, Erez and Sahar Kalderon, 12 and 16 years old. “Three of our young compatriots are part of the group of hostages released today”congratulated himself on X the French president. For her part, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna confided on BFMTV her “tremendous relief”, adding that France “will not relent in his efforts.” until “all the hostages”notably “five missing French people” find freedom. “We remain fully mobilized to obtain the release of all the hostages”also affirmed Emmanuel Macron.

The release of this fourth group of hostages since Friday brings to 50 the number of Israelis detained in the Gaza Strip who have been released. Or the number provided for in the initial agreement. A total of 117 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons were released in exchange, with 33 more expected to be released Monday evening, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said on the social network X, “including 30 minors and three women”. In addition, 19 hostages were released without agreement, the majority of them Thais who worked in Israel.

Humanitarian aid to Gaza

As part of the truce agreement, several hundred trucks loaded with aid have been able to enter the Gaza Strip since Friday, via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Some of them reached the north, the part of the territory most devastated by the war. The French helicopter carrier Dixmude, configured to provide hospital support to the wounded in the Gaza Strip, also arrived in the Egyptian port of Al-Arich on Monday, according to the French embassy in Egypt.

Despite these advances, the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory is “largely insufficient compared to needs”, regrets Léo Cans, the head of mission of Médecins sans Frontières in the Palestinian territories, on franceinfo. Basic needs such as “medicine, food” Or “some water”should be able to be brought back to the population “at all times, war or no war. Furthermore, she “is conditioned on military negotiations, in particular with the negotiation of hostages. And that is totally unacceptable”he emphasizes.

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