Update on the situation – Mossad and CIA chiefs met Friday as part of talks on a cease-fire in Gaza, Israeli officials said, accusing Hamas of hardening its position.
Israeli aerial bombardments killed dozens of people in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to the Hamas Health Ministry. The first ship loaded with aid to the famine-stricken Palestinian territories is ready to leave Cyprus. Israeli officials believe that Hamas is not actually trying to reach a cease-fire agreement. Le Figaro It examines the situation more than five months after the Hamas attack on Israel.
Hamas seems “Not interested in an agreement, trying to stimulate the region during Ramadan”Israel blames it
The heads of Israeli and US intelligence services, the Mossad and the CIA, met on Friday. “Move Towards Another Hostage Release Agreement” The Israeli government said in a statement on Saturday that it had been detained in Gaza.
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Hamas seems “Not interested in an agreement, trying to stimulate the region during Ramadan”The month of fasting for Muslims begins early next week, Israeli officials said in a press release issued by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's services on behalf of the Mossad.
Israel condemns Canada and Sweden's renewed aid to UNRWA
“The decision by Canada and Sweden to resume UNRWA (…) funding is a serious error”Lior Haiat, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, wrote in a message published on X, accusing both countries. “Continued Ignorance of UNRWA Staff Involvement in Terrorist Activities”. “Re-funding UNRWA does not change the fact that this organization is part of the problem and not part of the solution in the Gaza Strip”he added.
Canada and Sweden announced on Friday and Saturday that they would resume their funding to UNRWA, which, like other countries, had been suspended when Israel blamed Hamas and the Front for an attack on 12 agency staff in late January. An AFP count based on official data put the death toll in Israel at 1,160, mostly civilians.
Fifth aid drop on Gaza by Americans
A military transport plane crashed “Equivalent to 41,400 meals and 23,000 bottles of water in northern Gaza Strip”, the US Middle East Command (CENTCOM) pointed out. Five people were killed and ten others injured on Friday when humanitarian aid packages dropped by planes in Gaza City fell, an official at al-Sifa hospital told AFP.
The US command assured them that these were not their abandoned packages. Since Monday, the Americans have airlifted water and food into Gaza every day, but recognize that this distribution system is insufficient when facing the threat of famine.
Lebanon: At least five killed in Israeli attack
“A family of four killed in an attack on a house in Gerbet Selm”A couple and their two children, as well as a fifth person, “And more than nine others were injured.”, the company pointed out. He mentions that the mother, who had migrated from the border town of Blita with her husband and their two children, was pregnant.
The raid completely demolished the house and injured residents of neighboring houses, who were also violently attacked, the agency said. According to Aadhaar reports, all the injured have been taken to hospital. At least 312 people, most of them Hezbollah fighters and 56 civilians, have been killed in Lebanon since the cross-border violence began on October 8, according to an AFP tally.
Humanitarian aid by sea
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In Cyprus on Friday, European Commission President Ursula van der Leyen said she hoped to open a sea route on Sunday that would allow aid to be delivered from the Mediterranean island, about 370 kilometers from Gaza. Two NGOs are already preparing to send the first boat from Cyprus loaded with 200 tons of food.
“Everything will be ready to go today”, Spanish-American chef Jose Andrés, Laura Lanuza, a spokeswoman for Spanish NGO Open Arms, a partner in the project with the US NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK), told AFP on Saturday. He pointed out that Israeli authorities – who have approved the principle of the move – as have Cypriot authorities – are in the process of inspecting the cargo. “200 tons of food, rice, flour, tuna fish cans”At the port of Larnaca.
Risk of starvation
According to the United Nations, 2.2 million people in the troubled territory suffer from water and food shortages, and 1.7 million have been displaced by the devastating fighting and Israeli attacks. To the UN warning against “Widespread famine is almost inevitable” In Gaza, airdrops and aid deliveries by sea cannot be replaced by land routes. According to the Hamas Health Ministry, at least 23 civilians have died of malnutrition and dehydration in Gaza, after three children died.
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According to Hamas, nearly 31,000 people died
Israeli attacks on Gaza show no respite. The Hamas Health Ministry has updated the conflict's human toll: 30,960 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7. Of those, 82 were killed in the past 24 hours, the ministry said in a statement, leaving a total of 72,524 injured since the fighting began on October 7.
On the Israeli side, the Hamas offensive has led to the deaths of at least 1,160 people, most of them civilians, in southern Israel, according to an AFP count established from official sources. About 250 people were abducted that day and taken to Gaza, and 130 hostages are still being held there, 31 of whom Israel says have died.
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