STRAIGHT. The war between Israel and Hamas: on the 15th day of the conflict in Gaza, they were desperately waiting for humanitarian aid

Peace Summit in Egypt

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi is holding a “peace summit” in Cairo today, attended by several heads of state and government.

Al-Sisi wants to prevent Israel from evading the Palestinian issue at all costs, blaming the Muslim countries in the region for this. Saudi Arabia announced a week ago that it was suspending negotiations that could lead to normalization of its relations with Israel.

Hamas hopes for prisoner exchange

Hamas has suggested that the hostages could be exchanged for the estimated 6,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, including women and teenagers.

How many hostages are left in captivity?

Israel has information about 203 hostages, which allowed their families to be notified. These people have Israeli citizenship, and often others, including 40 countries. The Israeli military estimates that the number of hostages currently being held in the Gaza Strip is higher than the number reported so far, and that Israel may never know the fate of some of those missing.

Most of the hostages are being held by Hamas, with civilians not affiliated with the organization also being held by soldiers.

Death in Jericho

One person was killed overnight in clashes with the Israeli army near Jericho, bringing the death toll of Palestinians in the West Bank to 84 since October 7, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

The border remained closed last night

Despite a personal visit by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the Rafah border post, where 175 aid trucks are waiting, was still closed last night. Joe Biden entered into an agreement with Benjamin Netanyahu to allow only 20 trucks a day, but even those didn’t show up. Egypt says the border is open on its side.

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Biden spoke with two hostages

Judith Tai Raanan and her daughter Natalie, released last night by Hamas, were taken to the US Embassy in Jerusalem. From there, they were able to call their loved ones and talk to US President Joe Biden.

IDF continues airstrikes

The Israeli army continues to relentlessly fire at Hamas positions and report them on its social media. In addition to the usual Hamas headquarters locations, the strikes also hit what the IDF said were the terrorist organization’s “observation, anti-aircraft and sniper positions located inside high-rise buildings.”

The war started two weeks ago

On Saturday, October 7, the Islamist Hamas movement, which is in power in Gaza, launched an offensive of unprecedented scale, penetrating into Israeli territory into villages and kibbutzim, methodically shooting people they encountered and kidnapping about 22 people. The leader of the Ezzedine Al-Aqsa Brigades called the operation the “Al-Aqsa Flood” to punish the Jewish state, in his words, for all its crimes. Initially surprised, the Israel Defense Forces launched a “Iron Swords” response, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing to “destroy Hamas.”

“Nothing allows” to indicate an “Israeli strike” on a Gaza hospital, says French military intelligence

“Nothing allows us to say” that it was an “Israeli strike” that hit a Gaza hospital on Tuesday, a tragedy for which Israel and Hamas still blame each other, France’s Directorate of Military Intelligence (DRM) said on Friday. “The most likely hypothesis is a Palestinian rocket that exploded with a charge of about five kilograms,” the DRM told the press, according to its own analysis, released at the request of the French president for transparency reasons.

Two American hostages released

For the first time on Friday evening, Hamas released Judith and Natalie Raanan, an American woman and her daughter held hostage in the Gaza Strip, “on humanitarian grounds.” The decision followed “mediation by Qatar,” a country known to be close to Hamas, a military spokesman for the Islamist movement said. They arrived in Israel in the evening, the Israeli government said.

Hamas attack kills 30 French

The number of French casualties in Hamas attacks on Israel has risen again, with a total of 30 people killed and seven missing, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday. Some of the missing “are hostages of Hamas,” the Quai d’Orsay said.

Gaza residents await international help

Besieged and bombed, Gazans are desperately awaiting the arrival of the first international aid convoys, a matter of “life and death” for them, according to the UN, which like Washington expects deliveries to begin earlier Saturday.

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