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The Shifa Hospital area in Gaza has become the center of combat and the focus of accusations between Israel and the fundamentalist group Hamas in a war that this Saturday marked five intense weeks of projectiles and bombs.. While the UN warns about a dramatic health situation in the Palestinian enclave and demands a ceasefire to save patients, wounded and displaced, thousands of inhabitants of the northern Gaza Strip continue making their way south in the “humanitarian pause” of Israel that could become a “humanitarian truce” if there is an agreement on the issue of those kidnapped by Hamas on October 7.

Without his return there will be no truce, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned again. In a long press conference on Saturday night, he added that his forces killed “thousands of terrorists,” highlighting that Hamas has already lost control of the northern Gaza Strip, accusing it of shooting at humanitarian corridors for Gazans.. “If we want peace, security and guarantee the future of Israel, we must destroy Hamas,” he declared, warning the Lebanese militia Hizbula that if it decides to intervene in the war with Hamas “it will make the mistake of its life and will change the destiny of Lebanon.” .

After denouncing “the attack and siege” by Israel against several hospitals, the Ministry of Health controlled by the Islamist group warned this Saturday of the risk to the lives of 37 newborn babies in the neonatal unit of the Shifa Hospital after being “out of service.” “while an Israeli NGO noted that two died due to the lack of electricity. The Israeli Army announced that at the request of the Hospital it will help transfer the babies to a safer hospital. “The intensive care unit, the pediatric department and the oxygen devices stopped working,” said Health Ministry spokesman Dr.. Ashraf al-Qidra while the general director, Munir Al Bursh denounced that “Shifa is under siege from all directions. The occupation surrounds it and prevents the evacuation of the wounded.”

The director of Shifa Hospital, Mohamed Abu Selmia, said that Israel demanded that they evacuate the hospital, but that there was nowhere for such a large number of patients to go.. According to him, his center “has been left without water, fuel, food, electricity and telecommunications, with thousands of people inside, including wounded, patients and displaced people.”

The Israeli military denies the accusations. In Arabic, Colonel Moshe Tetro denies that his forces have fired on Shifa Hospital and confirms in its surroundings “armed clashes between soldiers and terrorists” while informing Gazans that “the east side of the hospital” remains open to whoever wants go out.

Israel – its spokespersons recall – has been asking for weeks for the evacuation of hospitals to safer places to “be able to confront the terrorists” by denouncing that the armed wing of Hamas uses Shifa and the rest of Gaza's health centers to hide underground. and launch armed attacks. In this way, they warn of a future that may not be very distant, turning Shifa into a “legitimate military objective”. For the first time, Israeli sources do not rule out the possibility that some kidnapped people held by Hamas are in the basement of Gaza's main hospital.

The Army announced that they killed dozens of militiamen on the last day. Among them, Ahmed Siam, commander of the Naser Radwan company, whom he accused of “keeping approximately 1,000 Gaza residents hostage in the Rantisi Hospital, preventing them from evacuating to the south.”. According to the military organization, “he died at the Al Buraq school along with several other terrorists who were under his command and were hiding in the school.”. Hours earlier, the Ministry of Health had reported that the Israeli attack on that center had caused 50 deaths.

Four reservist soldiers died this Saturday due to the explosion of a tunnel located near a mosque in the northern Gaza Strip. In statements to foreign media, an officer from the Guivati Brigade in Gaza denounced the “presence of terrorists and Hamas tunnels in clinics, schools and mosques”. According to him, his forces surrounded the Rantisi Hospital after requesting its evacuation, pointing out that they saw militiamen camouflaged among the civilians who came out.. Hamas, for its part, denounced this Saturday “a ring of fire around the Indonesian Hospital.”

International NGOs and the UN warned of the effects of the siege and attacks in areas of the Shifa, Rantisi and Naser hospitals beyond the lack of fuel entry. World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Margaret Harris said the attack on Naser forced the closure of the children's hospital, the only specialized pediatric care hospital left in northern Gaza, while Doctors Without Borders added: ” We denounce the death sentence of civilians trapped in the Shifa hospital signed by the Israeli Army. An urgent and unconditional ceasefire is necessary for all warring parties. “Humanitarian aid must be provided to the entire Gaza Strip now.”

No supplies

“Overwhelmed, running on short supplies and increasingly insecure, Gaza's health system has reached a point of no return, endangering the lives of thousands of wounded, sick and displaced people,” said the International Committee of the Red Cross. (ICRC).

An Israeli government spokesman, Eylon Levy, said he regretted that WHO and UNWRA (the UN agency for Palestinian refugees) had not expressed “their indignation against the Hamas headquarters in the basement of Shifa Hospital or that they had committed to moving civilians to safety.

Meanwhile, thousands of Palestinians left through the two corridors (Salah A Din Highway and coastal road) of Israel, which this Saturday extended the humanitarian pause from four to seven hours.. In any case, it is an exodus of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip that will take a long time to rebuild their buildings destroyed by bombs.
Cameras captured an Israeli soldier shouting in Hebrew to the line of displaced people on the Salah A Din road: “If anyone speaks Hebrew, it's time, don't be afraid and come running here.”. Words born of fear or perhaps hope that Hamas troops have taken advantage of the mass departure to flee with some of the 239 kidnapped. In this sense, Israel launched leaflets in Arabic with a financial offer in exchange for information on the whereabouts of the hostages.. At the expense of a rescue mission that is very difficult in a strip full of tunnels, his release goes through negotiations led by Qatar, godfather of Hamas, Egypt, transcendental neighbor and gateway to Gaza, and the United States.

As Israeli ground incursion into northern Gaza progresses, Hamas has reduced its projectile launching capacity. Hamas and the rest of the armed groups have launched more than 9,500 projectiles against southern Israel (12% of those failed fell in Gaza, according to Israeli data). Among them, 3,000 in just a few hours on October 7. The armed wing of Hamas announced this Saturday that they have destroyed 160 armed military vehicles since the beginning of the ground operation. “Enemies carry out massacres (…) Israeli tanks face violent resistance and fierce clashes that force them to withdraw and change the course of the incursion,” he declared five weeks after their attack in southern Israel that sparked the war. .

Leaders of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation unanimously condemned this Saturday in Riyadh the Israeli attacks in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis that has been unleashed in the Strip since last October 7. Saudi Arabia had planned two summits over the weekend, but joined the meetings to show a common position.

Both organizations seek to show a “unified collective stance that expresses the common Arab and Islamic will regarding the dangerous and unprecedented events witnessed in Gaza and the Palestinian territories,” they said in a statement.. Thus, representatives from 57 countries attended the summit, in which despite firmly condemning the Israeli attacks, the proposals of each country against Tel Aviv were very different.. From cutting relations with Israel to cutting off its gas and oil supplies or preventing the United States from using operational bases in the region to support Tel Aviv. The difference in proposals to resolve the conflict was also evident among the leaders: some advocated a two-state solution with the limits established in 1967 and others for a Palestinian State from the river to the sea, considering the entire territory of Palestine as Palestinian. Israel.

The summit was also unprecedented because it was the first time in many years that these countries met, in some cases faced by regional conflicts.. For example, it is the first time that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has visited Saudi Arabia since both countries normalized relations in March with the mediation of China.. It had been 11 years since an Iranian president had set foot in Riyadh. It is also the first face-to-face meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad.. For the latter, it is also the first summit he has attended since he was readmitted to the Arab League in May, after 12 years of absence during the Syrian war.

During the round of interventions, the most forceful leader was Raisi – whose country supports Hamas – who asked Islamic governments to designate Israel as a “terrorist organization” and urged them to impose economic sanctions.. He proposed banning the sale of weapons to Israel and establishing a no-fly zone for Israeli flights until the conflict is resolved.. “The United States supports Israel at the UN and vetoes resolutions that prevent the slaughter of Palestinians. “It has paved the way for Israel to kill more and bomb more,” he said during his speech.. “Blind bombing of Gaza must stop. The entire Islamic world must be united. With this unit we can solve the problem,” he added.

Tomorrow

On the other hand, Raisi celebrated Hamas' performance in the conflict and asked to “support the resistance and kiss the hands and forehead of each member of the Palestinian resistance.”. For his part, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman noted that the current situation is a “failure of the international community and the UN Security Council.”. He called for an end to the “Israeli occupation and illegal settlements” and supported establishing the boundaries of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan went one step further and tried to deal with a scenario after the cessation of the conflict.. “An international peace conference should be called to find a permanent solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians,” he said.. “What is needed in Gaza is not pauses of a couple of hours, but a permanent ceasefire,” he added.

The Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, reiterated his country's mediation efforts to secure the release of Israeli and foreign hostages in Gaza and noted that they hope for a humanitarian truce in the Strip.. “The international community has not fulfilled its legal and ethical responsibilities,” he said during the meeting.. “How long will the international community treat Israel as if it were above international law?” he asked.

During the summit, UN refugee chief Philippe Lazzarini sent a video message to Islamic leaders, asking them to continue pushing to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.. “The people of Gaza have always counted on Arab support and solidarity. “Now they need it more than ever,” he said, while calling for financial support for the organization, the largest humanitarian entity on the ground.

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The new immigration law of the French Government, which was presented as “balanced” and which has begun its parliamentary journey these days, has toughened its content. In the first week of debate in the Senate, which concluded this Friday, measures have been approved to facilitate the expulsion of foreigners who have committed crimes, do not respect the values of the Republic or pose a serious threat to the country.. Furthermore, the only article that could satisfy the left and the immigrant associations has been decaffeinated: that of the regularization of undocumented people who work in jobs where there is hardly any labor.

The debate started on Monday. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had said that the project sought to “be good with the good and bad with the bad.”. The original text contained measures to please the left and the right. However, day by day the content has been tweaked, making more concessions to the latter, who considered the text to be too lax.. On Monday, for example, they voted in favor of withdrawing the State medical assistance device that the undocumented benefited from.. Instead, there will be emergency medical help.

Expulsions are made easier, the asylum application is complicated and the conditions for family reunification are also toughened.. The article that provided for the regularization of people in an illegal situation who work in sectors without labor such as hospitality or construction, has remained minimal.

Now, what has been voted is that the prefects of each region be the ones to assess each case individually, evaluating not only the work that the immigrant performs, but also their integration and whether they respect the values of the Republic.. The Republican party, key to the Government to move the text forward in the Assembly, asked that it be eliminated. Also the extreme right. It was one of the few concessions to the left, which from the beginning has described the text as excessively restrictive.

One of the priority objectives is to facilitate the expulsions of foreigners who have committed crimes.. To do this, the protections that some benefit from and that prevented them from being kicked out will be eliminated.. This is the case of those who are under 13 years old when they arrive in French territory, for example.

For this reason, the jihadist of Chechen origin who stabbed a teacher a little over a month ago in a high school in the north of the country could not be expelled from France.. Despite being booked for radicalization, he had arrived in France when he was less than 13 years old.

Those who have a final sentence of more than five years in prison will no longer benefit from that protection. Darmanin, who has been posting on Twitter (now. “The French do not understand that someone who has committed a crime cannot be expelled,” the minister had denounced.

The residence permit will also be withdrawn from those who do not respect the values of the Republic.. These, according to the text, are personal freedom, freedom of expression and conscience, equality between men and women, human dignity and respect for the symbols of the Republic.

Wearing “ostentatious religious clothing” or “spitting on the French flag in a patriotic ceremony” are some examples of non-respect for the aforementioned values, as Darmanin illustrated in the Senate.

Another controversial measure: until now, children born in France to foreign parents automatically obtain nationality upon reaching the age of majority.. This right is eliminated and they will have to expressly request it from the age of 16 to 18.. And those who have been sentenced to a sentence of more than six months in prison will not be able to do so.

Immigrant and anti-racism associations have written a letter to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, to criticize this “unknown restriction of rights” until now.. “Access to French nationality favors immigration,” had defended Republican senator Valérie Boyer. The text ended the debate today in the Senate, where it will be voted next Tuesday. It will then go to the Assembly, which will begin processing it from December 11. The idea is that it will come into force at the beginning of next year.