“We continue to work hard.” The White House affirmed, Saturday, November 18, that it was doing everything possible to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas, with a view to freeing hostages and marking a pause in the fighting, but without obtaining the expected success for the ‘moment. “We have not yet reached an agreement,” wrote the spokesperson for the White House National Security Council on X (ex-Twitter). Adrienne Watson thus denied information from Washington Post, which states that an agreement providing for the release of hostages in exchange for a five-day pause in the fighting was concluded between the belligerents. Follow our live stream.
WHO wants to evacuate al-Chifa hospital. Al-Chifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip targeted by Israeli raids, has become a “death zone”, denounced the World Health Organization (WHO) which requested his evacuation. Hundreds of people who had found refuge in the hospital left the premises on Saturday after receiving orders from the Israeli army, according to the director of the establishment and an AFP journalist on site. But Israeli soldiers denied ordering the evacuation.
Israel expands its operations in the Gaza Strip. As the war enters its 44th day on Sunday, the Israeli army “continues to expand its operations into new areas of the Gaza Strip”, she announced. It claims to have carried out operations on Saturday in the areas of Jabaliya and Zaytoun, in the north of the territory. Since October 9, Israel has vowed to“annihilate” Hamas, which took power in Gaza in 2007, and cut off deliveries of food, water, electricity and medicine to the small Palestinian territory.
A march for the hostages arrives in Jerusalem. In Israel, relatives of some 240 people kidnapped on October 7, the day of the Hamas attack, arrived in Jerusalem on Saturday after several days of walking to maintain pressure on their government and demand the release of the hostages. “Take them home, now. All of them,” protesters who left Tel Aviv on Tuesday proclaimed amid a sea of Israeli flags.