According to the Qatari mediator, drugs intended for the hostages entered Gaza.
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Medicine
Medicines intended for hostages kidnapped in Israel on October 7 during an attack by Palestinian Hamas have been sent to Gaza, a Qatari mediator announced. “During the last hours, medicines and humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip, in accordance with the agreement announced (Tuesday) for the benefit of Palestinian civilians and hostages”, wrote a spokesman for the Gaza Strip. Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Majed Al-Ansari, on X, formerly Twitter.
War in the North?
Chief of the Israeli Army General Staff Harzi Halevi said the likelihood of war in northern Israel on the border with Lebanon “in the coming months” is now “much higher than it was in the past”. “We will start it with a lot of advantages” over the enemy, the soldier revealed, reserving training on the northern border with Lebanon where clashes with Lebanese Hezbollah have been taking place daily since October 7.
9 Palestinians killed in West Bank
According to Israeli and Palestinian sources, nine Palestinians were killed on Wednesday during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank, where Tulkarm camp (northwest) was the scene of fighting throughout the day.
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip on October 7, Israel has conducted almost daily raids and military operations in the West Bank.
France “Refuses to Accuse Jewish State of Genocide”
France today refused to support allegations of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, brought by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), condemning the crossing of a “moral threshold”.
“To accuse the Jewish state of genocide is to cross a moral threshold. We cannot use the concept of genocide for political purposes,” Foreign Minister Stefan Sjörn declared during questions to the government in the assembly. National.
Blinken: The Palestinian Authority needs “support” from Israel
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken calls on Israel, in the name of its “security”, to help rather than hinder the Palestinian Authority, which cannot function effectively without this “support”. The American diplomatic chief reiterated his call to find a “path to a Palestinian state” even as Washington backs Israel in its war against Hamas.
“Without it it will be impossible to achieve real security,” he explained. “Of course, for that, a strong, reformed Palestinian Authority, which can work effectively for its people, must be part of the equation.”
West Bank: 4 dead according to Red Crescent
The Palestinian Red Crescent announced the death of four people in an Israeli army strike this morning in the Tulkarm camp in the northwest of the West Bank.
Since the start of the war in Gaza on October 7, Israeli security forces have carried out daily raids in the West Bank, where the military and the internal security service, the Shin Bet, also announced that they had killed several Palestinians in the morning. Balata refugee camp, including the leader of a “terrorist cell” that was planning an “imminent” attack, according to a press release.
West Bank
The Israeli military announced on Wednesday that it had killed a Palestinian described as the leader of a “terrorist cell” that was planning an “imminent and large-scale” attack in an airstrike in the occupied West Bank.
In a joint statement, the army and the internal security service, the Shin Bet, described the man as “the head of the terrorist structure in the Balata (refugee) camp in Nablus” and identified him as “Amed Abdullah Abu Shalal”.
According to Israeli authorities, he was killed along with members of his “cell”, the number of which was not specified, during a “precision airstrike”.
red sea
Japan’s three major shipping carriers confirmed on Wednesday that they are suspending all of their cargo through the Red Sea, due to a sharp increase in tensions in the region.
Since last November, Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who are backed by Iran and control much of Yemen, have stepped up attacks at sea against ships suspected of being linked to Israel.
Tensions in the Red Sea, a narrow sea route through which 12% of world trade normally passes, have further escalated since late last week with Anglo-American strikes targeting the Houthis in Yemen, followed by aftershocks on their part.
Update on the situation
Israel escalates attacks on southern Gaza: Witnesses reported last night an Israeli strike near the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s main city of Khan Yunis, where, according to Israel, local leaders of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas are hiding. According to these witnesses, the bombings caused panic among hundreds of people displaced by the fighting who have taken refuge in the hospital’s sprawling grounds in recent weeks.
Medications expected by hostages: An agreement was reached on Tuesday between Israel and Hamas, who are still holding about 130 hostages after the deadly October 7 attack on the Hebrew land, to “deliver medicines in return for a shipment of humanitarian aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip.” The talks were conducted under the auspices of Qatar and France. Medicines will be sent to the Gaza Strip this Wednesday, Qatar’s diplomatic chief announced.
Macron warns Israel of “long-term risk” to country’s security: Israel’s pursuit of insufficiently targeted operations in Gaza poses a “long-term threat to the security” of the country, Emmanuel Macron said during his press conference on Tuesday. “We will continue diplomatic initiatives, resolutions, discussions to call for a ceasefire and I will continue bilateral contact to try to get it in a very concrete way,” the President of the Republic continued.
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It is the first. Israel and Hamas, at war in the Gaza Strip, reached an agreement on Tuesday, January 16, to bring humanitarian aid to the population of the besieged Palestinian territory and medicine for Israeli hostages, Qatar’s foreign ministry announced. The agreement, negotiated by Qatar and France, covers “Entry of shipments of humanitarian aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip, particularly in the most affected areas, in exchange for delivering medicine to the hostages”.According to Ministry Spokesman Majed Al-Ansari.
“Medicines and aid will be sent tomorrow (Wednesday) to Al-Arich town” in Egypt, “In two planes of the Qatari Armed Forces, in view of their transfer to the Gaza Strip”, Majed Al-Ansari, quoted by the official Qatar News Agency (QNA), added. The drugs are intended for 45 hostages, the French president said. In November, the needs of 83 of them were identified with the help of families but 38 have been abandoned or killed, the same source said.
After their arrival at Rafah Hospital on Wednesday, the drugs will be received by the ICRC, “divided into many”, The hostages were soon transferred. This delivery of treatment, planned for a period of three months, Paris hopes to be able to repeat until all hostages are freed. It was coordinated by the emergency center of the French foreign ministry, which bought the drugs and sent them to Doha on Saturday. “diplomatic bag”, said its director, Philippe Lelliot. Of the 250 people abducted in southern Israel during a Hamas attack on October 7, more than 130 are missing, including at least 25 who died without their bodies being returned, according to Israeli authorities.
