The United Arab Emirates will build a fully equipped field hospital in the Gaza Strip, the state news agency reported, without specifying whether there is an agreement on this initiative with Israel.
The agency stated that five planes with equipment necessary for the construction and operation of the Polish hospital flew from Abu Dhabi to Egypt on Monday.
(Radio Free Europe)
US President Joseph Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the possibility of tactical pauses in attacks on the Gaza Strip for humanitarian reasons, as well as for the possible release of hostages, White House spokesman John Kirby said.
Kirby said the US and Israeli governments would continue to be in touch about such temporary pauses and that Biden and Netanyahu had agreed to resume talks in the coming days.
The talks came as more Americans are expected to leave the Gaza Strip on Monday and as more aid enters the territory, Kirby said.
Biden and Netanyahu also discussed the situation in the West Bank.
Kirby told reporters that not enough aid is arriving in the Gaza Strip, adding that less than 30 aid trucks have entered the Palestinian territory in the past 24 hours.
The White House believes that a general ceasefire would not be an appropriate step.
(Radio Free Europe)
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen criticized UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who previously described Gaza as a "cemetery for children".
"Shame on you," Cohen wrote on the X Network.
He stated that more than 30 minors, including a nine-month-old baby, "who witnessed the cold-blooded murder of their parents, were held against their will in the Gaza Strip."
"Hamas is the problem in Gaza, not Israel's action to eliminate this terrorist organization," Cohen said.
(Radio Free Europe)
In an Israeli airstrike that hit the Al Shifa hospital building in Gaza, one Palestinian was killed and several others were wounded, according to the spokesperson of the Gaza Ministry of Health.
"The building houses 170 injured and hundreds of other displaced Palestinians," the spokesman said, according to Reuters.
(Radio Free Europe)
US President Joseph Biden did not reach an agreement this evening in a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a humanitarian pause in the war between Israel and Hamas.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby announced that the country would continue to "push for temporary, localized pauses in the fighting."
When asked if the casualty toll in Gaza could affect a pause in firm US support for Israel, Korba replied: "We all have to keep in mind who we are fighting against," alluding to the October 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel that killed more than 1.400. people and the war began.
The number of Palestinian victims in the war has exceeded 10.000 today, including 4.100 children and 2.640 women, according to the ministry there.
Kirby claims that "no country" would tolerate such attacks without responding "quickly and aggressively," but that the U.S. is talking openly with the Israelis about trying to reduce civilian casualties.
(BETA)
Adviser to Israel's Defense Minister, Giora Eiland, believes that the Israeli army has no choice but to carry out a military operation in the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, because the main base of Hamas and the network of tunnels are under it.
He expressed hope that the US would support such a military operation, even if thousands of civilians were killed.
In an interview with Israeli TV Channel 12, Eiland emphasized that he appreciates the US support for Israel in the campaign aimed at destroying Hamas.
Reserve Major General and former head of Israel's National Security Council Eiland said "Gaza is the most fortified place in human history with the best Iranian technology and billions (of dollars) invested."
He believes that the Americans talk about Gaza as if there are "Hamas, bad people and civilians, who are innocent and need to be saved."
"That is not the reality in Gaza. Gaza is very much a Nazi state, where they have managed to recruit the entire civilian population to fight against Israel. Every other home in Gaza has an entrance down to the tunnels below. These are private homes. All hospital and the school principals work for Hamas," said Eiland, assessing that all Gazans are making a big effort against Israel and that they are united around the leadership and do not oppose it.
In the long term, said Eiland, for the sake of Israel and the US, there is no need for major achievements there, but to show what happens to those who carry out attacks on Israeli soil like those on October 7 when the war began.
If this is the case, he believes that "very difficult pictures (from Gaza) and international pressure will turn into a long-term significant, if not admiration, then respect for Israel, and in the Middle East that word applies only to those who know how to use force and do not hold back." .
Eiland expressed hope that this was explained to CIA chief Bill Barnes during his visit to Israel today.
The Israeli army is expected to enter the capital of Gaza soon.
(BETA)
The Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) Antonio Guterres called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Guterres said at the press conference that the situation in Gaza represents a crisis of humanity.
"The Gaza Strip is quickly becoming a cemetery for children. Hundreds of girls and boys are allegedly killed or injured every day," Guterres said.
As N1 reports, he reiterated his condemnation of the terrorist actions committed by Hamas on October 7, adding that its fighters used civilians as human shields and that they continue to attack Israel.
"Nothing can justify the deliberate torture, killing, wounding and kidnapping of civilians. The protection of civilians must be paramount," Guterres said.
He called on the international community to address the risks of conflict spillover into the wider region.
"We are already witnessing a spiral of escalation from Lebanon and Syria, to Iraq and Yemen," added Guterres.
He called for an end to hateful rhetoric, saying he was deeply concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim bigotry.
"Jewish and Muslim communities in many parts of the world are on high alert, fearing for their safety," Guterres warned.
He assessed that the need for a ceasefire in the Middle East is becoming more urgent every hour.
"The catastrophe caused by the war between Israel and Hamas leads to the need for a humanitarian ceasefire, and this is becoming more urgent every hour," Guterres said.
The parties to the conflict and the international community face immediate and substantial responsibility. They must put an end to this inhumane collective suffering and radically increase humanitarian aid to Gaza, Guterres told reporters.
(MINA) (BETA)
French mountaineer Alain Robert, known as the "French Spider-Man", today climbed the tower where the headquarters of the Total Energy company is located near Paris to convey a "message of peace" on the 31st day of the war between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas.
The leader of Hamas in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, said today that the Palestinian Islamic organization will remain in the Gaza Strip and will not accept a collaborationist regime like in Vichy, France during the Second World War, in the territories it controls.
Israel has announced that the goal of the war in the Gaza Strip is the destruction of Hamas in response to the extremist organization's attacks on the southern Israeli territory, in which more than 1.400 people, mostly civilians, were killed and more than 200 people were kidnapped.
Since then, Israeli bombing has killed more than 10.000 people in the Gaza Strip, also mostly civilians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
"To those who think that Hamas will disappear, Hamas will remain anchored in the consciousness of our people and no power on earth will be able to destroy or marginalize us," Hamdan told a rally in Beirut.
"Our people will not allow the US to impose its plans to create an administration that answers to them and the occupier (Israel) and our people will not accept a Vichy government," Hamdan added, alluding to France's collaborationist regime under Nazi occupation during World War II.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told Congress on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority should regain control of the Gaza Strip from Hamas "at some point" and that international third parties may have a role to play.
"The Gaza Strip is an integral part of the state of Palestine," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of Fatah, a rival of Hamas, whose forces were pushed out of Gaza in 2007, said on Sunday.
After yesterday's meeting with Blinken at his headquarters in Ramallah, Abbas announced that the Palestinian Authority will take full responsibility within the framework of a comprehensive political solution for the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
The last Palestinian parliamentary elections were held in 2006 and were won by Hamas.
Having been prevented from taking power despite the victory, he took control of the Gaza Strip by force, defeating the security forces of the Palestinian Authority.
Before that, the small enclave was under Israeli occupation from 1967 until the unilateral withdrawal of the Israeli army in 2005.
The military wing of the Palestinian Islamic organization Hamas announced today that it fired 16 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel and that the south of the port of Haifa was targeted.
In the statement of the al-Qassam Brigades, it was confirmed that the rocket fire was "a response to the massacres and aggression of the occupiers", as stated, "against our people in the Gaza Strip".
The Israeli army announced that about 30 missiles were fired from Lebanon towards the north of Israel and that it responded with strikes at the places from which they were fired, reported Agence France Presse.
Hamas is an ally of the Lebanese extremist organization Hezbollah and is also present in Lebanon.
The military wing of Hamas claims to have attacked Israel several times from southern Lebanon since the start of the war with the Israeli army on October 7.
The border area between Lebanon and Israel has seen daily clashes between the Israeli army and the pro-Iranian Shia Hezbollah and its allies, including Hamas, since the start of the war between Israel and members of the extremist organization on October 7.
However, this is the first time that Hamas has confirmed that it has fired rockets at targets so far from the border. The port city of Haifa is about fifty kilometers away from the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Since October 7, 81 people have been killed on the Lebanese side, including at least 11 civilians and 59 Hezbollah fighters, according to France Press. Six Israeli soldiers and two civilians were killed in Israel.
(BETA)
Israeli security forces killed four Palestinian militants today who they said were part of a cell in the occupied West Bank led by Hamas and behind numerous armed attacks, the Israeli police and army said, according to Reuters.
The Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt was reopened today for the evacuation of foreigners and those with dual citizenship caught in the small Palestinian enclave where the Israeli army is fighting the Islamic extremist Hamas.
The terminal was open for three days, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and dozens of wounded Palestinians and hundreds of foreign passport holders crossed the border before Hamas decided to close it.
Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, has set the conditions for the opening of the crossing and is demanding passage for ambulances to Rafah after a deadly Israeli bombardment of one such vehicle in the Gaza capital.
Sources close to the Hamas government explained that the crossing was opened after an agreement was reached with Israel, thanks to Egyptian mediation, to allow 30 wounded people to pass through.
On the Egyptian side of the crossing, ambulances entered to take the wounded, eyewitnesses told Agence France-Presse.
On Sunday, Washington announced that more than 300 Americans or those with US residency permits and their family members had been evacuated through Rafah since Wednesday.
About a hundred Britons have also left Gaza, the British government announced today.
Egypt has announced that it will help evacuate around 7.000 foreigners and dual citizens from the Gaza Strip.
(BETA)
Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan told a news conference at an undisclosed location that the US has "dirty plans" and that the people of Gaza will not remain silent if Washington continues its "partnership with the occupiers," referring to Israel.
"We want an independent country with Jerusalem as its capital," he said.
He calls anyone who thinks Hamas will be destroyed a "delusion" and says the group will win a war with Israel.
(Radio Free Europe)
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Monday to declare an "immediate" and "complete" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, AFP learned from a Turkish diplomatic source.
At the meeting in Ankara, Fidan "stressed to his American counterpart (...) that it is necessary to prevent Israel from targeting civilians and displacing people in Gaza, and that a complete ceasefire should be declared immediately," the source added.
Blinken, who visited Jordan, Israel and the West Bank before coming to Ankara, also said that Washington asked Israel to "minimize civilian casualties".
The US, which is Israel's main political and military ally, is pushing for a "pause" in the conflict between Israel and Hamas in order to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Israel is bombing the Palestinian coastal strip in what it says is an effort to "destroy" Hamas, which attacked Israel on October 7. According to the Israeli authorities, 1.400 people, mostly civilians, died in that attack.
Then the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip killed about 10.000 people, the Hamas government announced today.
(BETA)
The United States of America (USA) is "very actively" working to deliver additional humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, which is under siege by the Israeli army, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said today in Ankara.
"In recent days, we have made great progress for additional aid to Gaza," the head of US diplomacy told reporters after talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and indicated that a cessation of hostilities would facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid.
"We are working very actively to provide more humanitarian aid to Gaza and we have very concrete ways to do that. I think you will see that aid can be significantly expanded in the coming days," Blinken added.
The US, which is Israel's main political and military ally, is pushing for a "pause" in the conflict between Israel and Hamas in order to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Blinken, who visited Jordan, Israel and the West Bank before coming to Ankara, also said that Washington asked Israel to "minimize civilian casualties".
Israel is bombing the Palestinian coastal strip in what it says is an effort to "destroy" Hamas, which attacked Israel on October 7. According to the Israeli authorities, 1.400 people, mostly civilians, died in that attack.
Then the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip killed about 10.000 people, the Hamas government announced today.
(BETA)
Israeli forces today intensively bombarded the Gaza Strip, where, according to Hamas, almost 10.000 people have died since the beginning of new conflicts.
More than 200 people were killed in the night strikes in the north of the Palestinian territory and in Gaza City, according to Hamas, which is in power in the Gaza Strip.
Ground fighting is not abating despite urgent calls for a humanitarian ceasefire.
This morning, the Israeli army again appealed to civilians to leave the northern part of the Gaza Strip, which is being targeted in retaliation for the bloody attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist movement on October 7.
A spokesman for the Israeli army said that soldiers operating in Gaza cut the territory into two parts - southern and northern Gaza.
The fiercest fighting is taking place in the north, where, according to Israeli information, the "center" of Hamas is located.
(BETA)
In the war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas, one child is killed and two children are injured on average every 10 minutes, the United Nations office in Geneva announced, citing data from the Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA).
"Children must not be targeted," the UN said in a statement on the X network.
The UN announced yesterday that almost 4.000 children have died in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, warning that the situation for children in the area is catastrophic.
The meeting between US Secretary of State Antonio Blinken and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan ended after two hours and 30 minutes, an unnamed US State Department official told Reuters.
Blinken is visiting Turkey as part of his tour of the Middle East, in an attempt to reduce tensions after the outbreak of conflict between Israel and Hamas.
French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said his country would send dozens of armored vehicles to the Lebanese army to carry out patrol missions in Lebanon.
"Our support for the Lebanese army is long-term, regardless of the current difficulties," Lekornu said.
France has tried to use its historic relations with Lebanon to try to calm tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, but violence has increased, Reuters estimates.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met today in Ankara.
It is the first meeting between the two officials since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
Blinken's visit to Turkey comes amid growing anti-American sentiment in the country, according to the BBC.
Yesterday, the Turkish police stopped a group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who allegedly tried to enter the air base where American forces are stationed.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that it is Turkey's "duty" to stop the bloodshed in Gaza and save the Palestinians from Israeli "oppression".
Blinken's meeting with the Turkish president is not planned.
(BETA)
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