Hamas-Israel war: the truce in Gaza will not come into force until tomorrow – L’Express

⇒ The truce agreement will not come into force until Friday.

⇒ Drones launched by Houthi rebels.

⇒ Director of Chifa hospital in Gaza arrested.

The truce agreement between Israel and Hamas providing for the release of 50 hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners will not come into force before Friday, Israeli officials announced Thursday, November 23, against a backdrop of continuing fighting in the Gaza Strip. . Qatar announced on Wednesday the “success” of its mediation for a renewable four-day truce in the fighting, on the 47th day of fighting, coupled with an exchange of hostages and prisoners. The United States also took part in mediation with Doha and Cairo.

According to officials, this would be “a first exchange of 10 Israeli hostages” for 30 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Israel has released a list of 300 Palestinian prisoners likely to be released, including 49 members of Hamas According to Israeli authorities, other exchanges could take place as part of an extension of the truce, with a total of 100 hostages for 300 Palestinian prisoners. The humanitarian pause will also allow the entry of a “larger number of humanitarian and aid convoys, including fuel,” Qatar said.

The Israeli government approved this agreement, despite internal dissension. The Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir (far right) evokes a “historic error” because the pause will, according to him, allow Hamas to strengthen itself. The main association of hostage families declared itself “happy” with the announcement of an agreement for a “partial release” of 50 hostages, children and women, but said it did not know for the moment ” who will be released and when.

There will therefore be “no pause” in the fighting on Thursday, according to AFP sources among Israeli officials. During the night, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported Israeli strikes causing “dozens” of deaths in different sectors of the Gaza Strip. More than 14,000 people have been killed, including more than 5,800 children, since October 7, according to Hamas, a toll that no independent source is able to verify. The Gaza Strip is still cut off from water, electricity and fuel supplies. Around 1.7 million people have already been displaced.

Hezbollah announced early Thursday the death of Abbas Raad, son of the leader of the Shiite movement group in the Lebanese parliament Mohamed Raad, in an Israeli bombing that killed four other fighters in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. Abbas Raad “fell a martyr on the road to Jerusalem,” wrote the Shiite movement allied to Palestinian Hamas in a statement.

A US warship patrolling the Red Sea on Thursday intercepted explosive drones launched from a region of Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels, the US military Middle East Command (Centcom) announced. The Houthis are also part of the “axis of resistance” supported by Iran, like Hezbollah and Hamas. On Wednesday, Israel already indicated that it had intercepted a “cruise missile” which was advancing towards the south of the country, claimed by the Houthi rebels in Yemen, while on Sunday, the Houthis claimed to have seized a ship in the Red Sea private commercial.

“We will continue to carry out military operations until Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank stops,” promised the spokesperson for the Houthi military wing on X (former Twitter).

“Doctor Mohammed Abou Salmiya was arrested with several other healthcare executives,” said one of the department heads of the al-Chifa hospital in Gaza, currently under the control of the Israeli army, which says it is looking for facilities there. Hamas soldiers. Doctor Abou Salmiya told AFP that he had received an evacuation “order” on November 18 after saying he had refused a previous one, while the Israeli army claimed to have evacuated hundreds of patients and displaced people from Al -Chifa at the “request” of the same doctor.

Searches were underway Thursday morning in four different regions of Germany, among members and sympathizers of the Palestinian organizations Hamas and the pro-Palestinian Samidoun network, banned in the country, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. A total of fifteen properties have been searched since 6:00 a.m.

“We are continuing our consistent action against radical Islamists. […] We have sent a clear signal that we do not tolerate any apology or support for the barbaric terror of Hamas against Israel,” said Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser.