{"id":41221,"date":"2024-01-17T07:22:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T07:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=41221"},"modified":"2024-01-17T07:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T07:22:07","slug":"lsrael-and-hamas-has-agreed-to-pause-for-delivery-of-medicine-to-hostage-and-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/01\/17\/lsrael-and-hamas-has-agreed-to-pause-for-delivery-of-medicine-to-hostage-and-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"lsrael and Hamas has agreed to pause for delivery of medicine to hostage and civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deliveries of medicine for Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians were expected to start arriving in Gaza on Wednesday under a deal mediated by Qatar and France, after a night of deadly bombardments in the territory\u2019s south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Militants took about 250 hostages during the bloody 7 October attacks that sparked the war, and about 132 are still in\u00a0Gaza, including at least 27 believed to have been killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fate of those remaining in captivity has gripped Israeli society, while a broader humanitarian crisis in the besieged territory marked by the\u00a0threat of famine\u00a0and disease has fuelled international calls for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement to the official\u00a0Qatar\u00a0News Agency (QNA), Doha on Tuesday announced a deal \u201cbetween Israel and [Hamas], where medicine along with other humanitarian aid is to be delivered to civilians in Gaza \u2026 in exchange for delivering medication needed for Israeli captives in Gaza\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"49c45ea4-a7d7-4c1a-aa99-9cc5f2862f16\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/16\/iran-launches-airstrikes-on-sunni-militant-bases-in-pakistan\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4df550d05270de3a113d2c60a77a778b04c0316f\/0_91_2736_1642\/master\/2736.jpg?width=460&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dd1d9d43e7965e326e8f70c3b233bb18\" alt=\"A missile being launched by Iran during a ground force drill.\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson Majid Al-Ansari told QNA the medicine and aid would leave Doha on Wednesday for the Egyptian city of El-Arish before being transported to the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The office of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forty-five hostages are expected to receive medication under the agreement, according to the French presidency. After the drugs arrive at a hospital in the southern Gaza border town of Rafah on Wednesday, it said, they will be received by the International Committee of the Red Cross, divided into batches and immediately transferred to the hostages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deliveries will go on for three months, and were coordinated by the French foreign ministry\u2019s crisis centre, which bought the drugs and sent them to Doha on Saturday by diplomatic pouch, said the centre\u2019s director, Philippe Lalliot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qatar, which hosts Hamas\u2019s political office, has led negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian militant group, having mediated a week-long break in the war in Gaza in November that included the release of scores of Israeli and foreign hostages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US national security council spokesperson John Kirby said on Tuesday he was \u201chopeful\u201d that Qatar-brokered talks could lead to another such deal \u201csoon\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 1,200 people were killed in the 7 October attacks by Hamas in Israel, mostly civilians. Israel\u2019s offensive has killed at least 24,285 people, mostly women and children, according to a recent toll from the Palestinian health ministry in Ramallah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry reported early on Wednesday that another 81 people were killed in overnight strikes, including in the main southern city of Khan Younis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"86b5b619-6a3a-4aed-8252-1f7c5dccbb50\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/17\/middle-east-attacks-crisis-explained-updates-israel-gaza-war-red-sea-houthis-yemen-palestine-us-military\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e702e289dc822dc3ff3d57fd3745580154f657cb\/0_477_6987_4192\/master\/6987.jpg?width=460&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dd588e8edc38857aa9dea6dc50bb4abe\" alt=\"Emergency services clear the rubble of the house that was hit by an Iranian missile strike in Irbil, Iraq, on Tuesday.\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Negotiations on the fate of the hostages stalled after the release of 105 in exchange for 240 Palestinians held in Israel jails during a brief truce in November. Israel has said 25 are now believed to be dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United Nations says the war has displaced roughly 85% of Gaza\u2019s 2.4 million people, many of whom have been forced to crowd into shelters and struggle to get food, water, fuel and medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just before midnight on Tuesday, witnesses reported strikes on the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, sparking panic among the hundreds of displaced people seeking shelter there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in the day, residents of the city sifted through the rubble from strikes as trucks and carts stacked high with displaced families\u2019 possessions rolled down the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou can see the destruction. This room was inhabited by people, this one was inhabited by 20 children, women and men, and the same thing goes for the neighbouring houses in the whole camp,\u201d resident Mohamad Ramadan told Agence France-Presse, gesturing at a destroyed home where he said several people had been killed. \u201cThese men can still find some of their body parts, nothing but remains torn apart,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Tel Aviv, anti-war protesters scuffled with police on Tuesday night, as some held up signs reading \u201cEnd the siege\u201d and \u201cStop the genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe occupation leads to bloodshed, and it continues incessantly. The children growing up now in Gaza are the ones who will confront us in a few years,\u201d protester Chava Lerman told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCivilians are getting killed by the Israeli bombings,\u201d said fellow protester Michal Sapri. \u201cIt leads to nothing. Our hostages are still there. We\u2019re not going to release them [through] more military power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deliveries of medicine for Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians were expected to start arriving in Gaza on Wednesday under a deal mediated by Qatar and France, after a night of deadly bombardments in the territory\u2019s south. Militants took about 250 hostages during the bloody 7 October attacks that sparked the war, and about 132 are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6850,11394,9778,11345,9204,12283,287,9331,6848,8440,9171,6083,12635,8116,12246,11403,5846,8875,6144,4066,6738,6458,6496,11638,5575,6351,6569,2629,10736,5884,5930,12634,6825,10825,12173,8251,10954,3095,6213,9515,3874,10303,12309,10748,5572,7693,12085,8000,11973,5568,6821,421,7574,3174,11171,8552,10814,5615,5656,6431,5655,5752,11325,3094,8429,7999,6348,5251,8869,5320,594],"class_list":["post-41221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-aid","tag-attacks","tag-bloodshed","tag-body-parts","tag-border","tag-ceasefire","tag-children","tag-city","tag-civilians","tag-crisis","tag-crowd","tag-dead","tag-delivery","tag-destruction","tag-diplomatic","tag-disease","tag-displaced","tag-doha","tag-drugs","tag-el","tag-families","tag-famine","tag-food","tag-forced","tag-france","tag-french","tag-fuel","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-strip","tag-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-health","tag-hospital","tag-hostage","tag-hostages","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-international","tag-israel","tag-john-kirby","tag-killed","tag-lead","tag-medicine","tag-men","tag-militant","tag-military","tag-national-security","tag-nations","tag-negotiations","tag-one","tag-palestinian","tag-palestinians","tag-police","tag-presidency","tag-prime-minister","tag-protesters","tag-qatar","tag-rafah","tag-ramadan","tag-red-cross","tag-release","tag-security","tag-security-council","tag-street","tag-tel-aviv","tag-truce","tag-united-nations","tag-us","tag-war","tag-water","tag-women","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41223,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41221\/revisions\/41223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}