Hamas: three dead in an attack in East Jerusalem – L’Express

The truce will continue in Gaza while mediators continue their efforts, the Israeli army announced. Information confirmed by Qatar as a six-day humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip was about to end.

⇒ Qatar confirms the extension of the truce

⇒ At least one dead in East Jerusalem

⇒ A new “list” of hostages who must be released on Thursday

An Israeli army spokesperson announced that the truce, which was scheduled to end at 6 a.m. (Paris time) this Thursday, November 30, would continue as mediators continue their efforts to extend the ceasefire. with Hamas. The six-day halt to fighting in Gaza was due to end at 7 a.m. local time (5 a.m. GMT) on Thursday, and follows the release of a group of 16 hostages held by Hamas on Wednesday evening in exchange of 30 Palestinian prisoners.

The truce between Israel and Hamas will be extended by one day until Friday December 1, mediator country Qatar confirmed on Thursday, as a six-day humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip was about to end. finish.

The Israeli government announced Thursday, November 30, that it had received a new “list” of names of women and children hostages in the Gaza Strip to be released during the day in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in accordance with the truce agreement with the Islamist movement Palestinian Hamas.

Entering into force on November 24, the truce was due to expire at 7:00 a.m. (5:00 a.m. GMT) but was extended at the last minute by the two belligerents. “In accordance with the terms of the agreement, Israel recently received a list [de noms] women and children,” said a statement from the Prime Minister’s office, without specifying the number of these hostages to be released.

Three people were killed Thursday morning and six others injured, three of them seriously, Thursday morning in a firearms attack in the area of ​​the Jewish settlement of Ramot, in East Jerusalem occupied and annexed by Israel, said the Israeli relief. The police announced that two “suspects” had been “neutralized”.

Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, said it received an alert at 7:38 a.m. (5:38 a.m. GMT) about a gun attack “near a bus stop” in the area. of Ramot. Rescuers “are treating six injured people”, some “seriously”. “The two suspects involved in the shooting were neutralized on the spot”, indicates a police press release.

China called Thursday for a “lasting humanitarian truce” in the war between Israel and Hamas, in a diplomatic document. While maintaining good relations with the Israeli authorities, Beijing has supported the Palestinian cause for several decades and campaigns for a two-state solution. “All parties involved must […] immediately establish a lasting and prolonged humanitarian truce,” urged the Chinese Foreign Ministry in a document summarizing its position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Seventeen Thai hostages released in recent days by Hamas after several weeks in captivity in the Gaza Strip are expected in Bangkok on Thursday. The plane on which they are, accompanied by the head of Thai diplomacy, is due to land at Suvarnabhumi airport at 3:00 p.m. local time (08:00 GMT), welcomed by their families.

According to the Thai Ministry of Labor, around 30,000 Thais were working in Israel, mainly in the agricultural sector, at the time of the attacks. At least 32 of them were captured by Hamas during the bloody attack on Israel on October 7. The Jewish state responded with a massive campaign of air, artillery and naval strikes, as well as a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Thirty Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons were released overnight from Wednesday to Thursday in accordance with the truce agreement between Israel and Hamas, the Israel Prisons Authority announced. These prisoners were released after Hamas earlier freed 16 Israeli and foreign hostages held in the Gaza Strip, hours before the truce expired. Qatar, the main mediator of the truce, announced earlier that the Palestinian prisoners to be released are 16 minors and 14 women. Among those released is Ahed Tamimi, a 22-year-old activist who has become a key figure for Palestinians challenging the Israeli occupation.

A US military boat sailing in the southern Red Sea on Wednesday shot down a drone launched from an area of ​​Yemen controlled by the Houthis, pro-Iranian rebels, the US military announced. “At approximately 11 a.m. Sanaa time” the USS Carney, a destroyer “shot down a KAS04, an Iranian-built unmanned flying device launched from an area of ​​Yemen controlled by the Houthis,” the army command said for the Middle East in a press release. The Navy reported no injuries or material damage. The war in the Middle East has fueled tensions in the region.