End of mission for the French ship Dixmude, collected to treat Gaza’s wounded

A helicopter carrier Dixmuid Gathered to treat wounded Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, “accomplished their mission”, about 120 seriously wounded were treated on board in two months, the French Army General Staff announced Thursday. The ship is expected to leave the Egyptian port of Al-Arich where it was docked about fifty kilometers from the Palestinian territory. “by the end of the week”Friday, Saturday or Sunday, the general staff announced during a press briefing.

About 120 seriously injured people were treated on the ship, which docked on November 27. A much lower figure than that put forward by President Emmanuel Macron in mid-January: the Dixmuid “Already helped treat more than 1,000 patients, children and adults”He congratulated himself during a televised press conference.

An Italian boat remains on site

Present on the boat on 31 December, Minister of the Armed Forces Sebastien Lecornu appeared to condemn the highly restricted access to the boat left by the Israeli authorities. With the influx of patients involved in “zero” And about twenty per day, “We need to treat more injured civilians”, he then insisted. The minister also announced “Discussions with a number of European countries, particularly British, German and other country partners” to take from Dixmuid, apparently unsuccessful. An Italian boat is also treating the wounded, although it remains on the scene.

More than 1,140 people, mostly civilians, died in Israel as a result of an October 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli soil, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures. About 250 people were kidnapped in the attack and taken to Gaza, about 100 of whom were released in late November during a ceasefire in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

In response, Israel promised “to destroy” Hamas, in power in Gaza since 2007, launched a massive military operation that killed 25,900 people, mostly women, children and teenagers, according to the latest report published Thursday by the Islamist movement’s health ministry. Described as sanitary conditions “catastrophic” by the UN and NGOs in the small landlocked region, where dozens of health facilities have been destroyed or damaged and medicine is in short supply.