Occupied Al-QudsL: A video clip posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, shows a huge fire erupting near Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital as a string of loud explosions are heard in the background.
According to the post, Israeli forces have surrounded the Indonesian Hospital and continue to bombard the vicinity of the hospital, which has already gone out of service but is still housing Palestinians who have fled their homes.
While citing witnesses, reported that “it looks like the Israeli forces are going to repeat what happened at Al Shifa Hospital. It looks like there will be an attempt to storm the Indonesian Hospital.”
Hamas gunmen battled Israeli forces trying to push into Gaza’s largest refugee camp on Sunday, but despite the fighting US and Israeli officials said a deal to free some of the hostages being held in the besieged enclave was edging closer.
About 240 hostages were taken during Hamas’s deadly cross-border rampage into Israel on Oct 7.
Israeli tanks and troops stormed into Gaza late last month and have since wrested control of large areas of the north and northwest and east around Gaza City, the military says.
But Hamas and local witnesses say fighters are waging guerrilla-style war in pockets of the densely urbanised north, including parts of Gaza City and the sprawling Jabalia and Beach refugee camps.
Even as fighting raged on the ground, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Herzog, said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” that Israel was hopeful a significant number of hostages could be released by Hamas “in coming days”.
A news agency reported on Nov 15 that Qatari mediators had been seeking a deal between Israel and Hamas to exchange 50 hostages in return for a three-day ceasefire that would help boost emergency aid shipments to Gaza civilians, citing an official briefed on the talks.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday met with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and condemned the violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, according to the House of Representatives.
President Macron also spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling him that there were “too many civilian losses” in Israel’s war in Gaza.
Macron reminded Netanyahu of the “absolute necessity to distinguish terrorists from the population”, the French presidency said.
