Israel – Hamas war: Netanyahu wants to continue the offensive “until victory” – L’Express

⇒ Netanyahu wants to continue the offensive “until victory”.

⇒ A hostage released and hospitalized in intensive care.

⇒ France hopes for the release of “all the hostages”.

The Israeli Prime Minister visited troops in the Gaza Strip on Sunday and affirmed that the Israeli offensive there would continue “until victory.” It was the first trip by an Israeli government to Gaza since its unilateral withdrawal from the Palestinian territory in 2005. “We are doing everything possible to recover the kidnapped people, and we will eventually recover them all,” he said. -he promised. On Monday, November 27, he is due to ask the government for a “war” budget of 30 billion shekels (7.3 billion euros).

France hopes that the truce in Gaza lasts until the release of “all the hostages”, encouraged its Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna on Sunday. During the night from Sunday to Monday, the Palestinian armed Islamist movement affirmed in a press release “to seek to extend the truce beyond its four days” with the aim of “increasing the number of prisoners released” as planned in the agreement.

A source close to Hamas also told AFP that the terrorist movement had “informed the Qatari and Egyptian mediators” that they “agreed to extend the current truce from two to four days”.

“Provisions provide for the release of ten more hostages every day and that is a blessing,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, who spoke with Joe Biden on Sunday. “But I also told the president that we will, after the agreement, return to our objective: to eliminate Hamas and ensure that the Gaza Strip is no longer what it was,” he continued. . Active since Friday, this 4-day truce must end tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. (French time).

The relief was short-lived for Elma Avraham’s family. The 84-year-old Israeli woman, kidnapped on October 7 by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas before being released on Sunday, November 26 in the process of exchanging hostages for Palestinian prisoners, was hospitalized in intensive care on Sunday evening. His life is threatened, according to the hospital in southern Israel which is welcoming him “due to a serious lack of care during his detention in recent weeks in the hands of Hamas”. She was released on Sunday alongside 14 other hostages, nine children, four women and a Russian-Israeli.

In all, 63 hostages (out of nearly 240) were freed in three days. Among them, 39 Israelis and 117 Palestinians were released as part of the agreement between Israel and Hamas, with the other releases resulting from external agreements.

Since Friday, 248 trucks loaded with aid have been able to enter the Gaza Strip. But if the truce offered a respite to Gazans, the humanitarian situation there remains “dangerous” and the needs “unprecedented”, estimates the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). “We would have to send 200 trucks per day for at least two months to meet the needs,” its spokesperson told AFP, specifying that there was “neither drinking water nor food” in certain sectors.

Thousands of displaced Gaza residents took advantage of the truce to try to return home to the north, despite warnings from the Israeli army that the northern third of the Gaza Strip is a war zone. More than half of the territory’s housing has been damaged or destroyed by the war, according to the UN, and 1.7 million people have been displaced, out of 2.4 million inhabitants.

An oil tanker belonging to a company linked to Israel was arrested Sunday in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Yemen, a US military official told AFP – where the Houthi Rebels are allies of Hamas. “An unknown number of unidentified armed individuals seized the ship Central Park in the Gulf of Aden on November 26.” The United States and coalition forces intervened and “the crew of the M/V Central Park is currently safe,” according to American Defense. It is not immediately known whether the crew members remained on board the ship.

This is the third cargo ship affected by an attack by Yemeni rebels, who have threatened to attack Israeli or allied ships in the Red Sea, in retaliation for the war in Gaza. A cargo ship belonging to an Israeli businessman has already been damaged in a suspected Iranian drone attack in the Indian Ocean on Friday, a week after the Houthis captured an Israel-linked cargo ship in the south of the Red Sea.