Israeli tanks are massed this Tuesday, November 14 at the gates of the main hospital in Gaza, that of al-Chifa. For days, clashes between Hamas fighters and Israeli soldiers have been concentrated around al-Chifa. “The idea is to try to evacuate people, to evacuate as many as possible” from the hospital site, said an Israeli army spokesperson, Peter, on the night of Monday to Tuesday. Lerner. Israel announced that an evacuation “corridor” would remain in place on Monday to allow civilians to leave al-Chifa hospital.
“We have no electricity, no food, no water in the hospital,” said an MSF doctor. “People are going to die in a few hours without working ventilators,” he added. The army, for its part, reports “efforts” to transfer incubators from an Israeli hospital to al-Chifa.
According to a surgeon from Doctors Without Borders (MSF), hundreds of people are stuck at al-Chifa hospital in “inhumane” conditions. The Hamas government’s deputy health minister, Youssef Abou Rich, told AFP on Monday that “seven premature babies” and “27 patients in intensive care” had died since Saturday due to the lack of electricity in this area. hospital. An assessment that no independent source is however able to verify. Israel claims that Hamas has installed its infrastructure in a network of tunnels under the al-Chifa hospital, which Hamas denies, and to use the sick and displaced as “human shields”.
Hospital in Gaza: Biden calls for “less intrusive actions” from Israel
Joe Biden on Monday asked Israel to protect Gaza’s main hospital. “I hope and expect less intrusive actions regarding the hospital” al-Chifa, declared the American president at the White House, questioned by journalists to know if he had spoken about it with the Israeli leaders. “The hospital must be protected,” he added.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan later confirmed that Washington had raised the issue of hospitals in discussions with its ally Israel. “We don’t want to see fighting in hospitals,” he said at a press conference. “We want patients to be protected, hospitals to be protected,” added Jake Sullivan, before specify that the Israeli government had stated during these exchanges that it “shared this opinion”.
Hamas accuses Israel of “procrastinating” on the release of hostages
The armed wing of Hamas accused Israel on Monday of “procrastinating” in discussions, via Qatari mediation, concerning the possible release of dozens of hostages in exchange for that of “200 children and 75 women” imprisoned by Israel.
“Qatari mediation led efforts to obtain the release of the (hostages) in exchange for the release of 200 Palestinian children and 75 Palestinian women from enemy prisons,” assured brigades spokesperson Ezzedine al-Qassam, Abou Obeida, in an audio recording released by Hamas. Israel “demanded the release of 100 (hostages), we informed the mediation that we could release the hostages if we obtained five days of truce – that is, a ceasefire and the passage of the aid to all of our people throughout the Gaza Strip – but the enemy is procrastinating,” he continued.
Israeli army confirms identity of Hamas hostage soldier
The Israeli army confirmed this Tuesday the identity of a female soldier held hostage by Hamas, after the publication by the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement of a video showing the young woman in captivity.
“Our hearts go out to the Marciano family, whose daughter, Noa, was brutally kidnapped by the Hamas terrorist organization,” the army wrote in a statement, confirming for the first time the identity of a of some 240 people taken as hostages in the Gaza Strip during Hamas’ bloody attack on Israel on October 7.
West Bank: five Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli army
Five Palestinians, men aged 21 to 29, were killed during an Israeli army operation in the town and camp of Tulkarem, in the north of the occupied West Bank, AFP was told on Tuesday. Amin Khader, the director of Thabet hospital where the deaths were recorded.
Witnesses in the local camp reported violent clashes and a massive deployment of Israeli forces there to arrest young people. The Israeli army confirmed to AFP an operation in this sector of the occupied West Bank without immediately specifying the reasons or commenting on the Palestinian toll.
New exchanges of fire in southern Lebanon
During the night from Monday to Tuesday, new exchanges of fire took place between the Israeli army and armed groups in Lebanon, including the powerful pro-Iranian Hezbollah, which supports Hamas. “Following fire from Lebanon towards Israel on Monday evening, Israeli army combat jets struck infrastructure” of Hezbollah in Lebanon, including “command centers,” the Israeli army said in a statement. .
An Al-Jazeera journalist was slightly injured by Israeli fire, according to the Qatari channel and a local official, while he and other press correspondents were covering the bombings in southern Lebanon.