“We are now very close” to an agreement on the release of the hostages, assures Joe Biden

• Talks accelerate on Tuesday for the release of hostages held by Hamas in exchange for a truce in the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian Islamist movement accuses Israel of a deadly strike on a besieged hospital. ” THE (Hamas) delivered his response to the brothers of Qatar and the mediators. We are getting closer to concluding a truce agreement », declared Hamas leader Ismaïl Haniyeh, quoted in a brief message on the Palestinian movement’s Telegram account. The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, met Monday evening with leaders of Qatar and Mr. Haniyeh, based in the Gulf emirate, in order to“advance on humanitarian issues linked to the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza”.
• “The best guarantee for Israel’s security is the creation of a Palestinian state,” declared Monday the head of diplomacy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, after a meeting with the twenty-seven foreign ministers. It is “a fundamental political conclusion” of his discussions in the region, explained the EU’s top diplomat.
• US President Joe Biden said ” believe “ that an agreement was close to release hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Families of Israeli children held hostage by Hamas took the UN to task on Monday, urging it to press for their release during a demonstration outside the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Tel- Aviv.
• Twenty-eight premature babies evacuated on Sunday from a hospital in Gaza City, at the heart of the fighting between Israel and Hamas, arrived in Egypt on Monday, the Palestinian Islamist movement accusing Israel of a deadly strike on another besieged establishment. The babies were taken care of in incubators after crossing the border.
• A field hospital, the first of its kind since the start of the war, is to be set up in Khan Younes, south of the enclave.. Health workers from Jordan have entered the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian medical officials. The Hamas government lists 31,000 injured in the Palestinian territory.
• At least “twelve patients and their relatives” were killed and “dozens injured” in Israeli strike on Indonesian hospital, in the northern Gaza Strip, said Ashraf Al-Qdra, spokesperson for the ministry in the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip. Around 200 patients were evacuated from this hospital, in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). There are still 400 patients remaining in the facility, he added.
• The Israeli army said it continued to “expand its operations into new areas of the Gaza Strip”particularly in the Jabaliya sector, in the north of the territory.
• Monday, the Doctors Without Borders clinic in Gaza City “was the target of fire” And “four MSF cars burned”, a fifth cut in two, said the NGO, without news from one of its members and their relatives. Artillery fire and airstrikes destroyed buildings in downtown Gaza, according to an AFP journalist. Doctors at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza told AFP they had received ” tens “ deaths and injuries.
• According to the health ministry in the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip, 41 members of the same family died in an Israeli attack that hit their house in Jabaliya. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported the overnight bombing of the Indonesian hospital, north of Gaza City, while Hamas reported bombardments by Israeli tanks.

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