Updates

26 November 2023

Israel’s war on Gaza has been a war on Gaza’s hospitals,” writes Dima Ashour in Gaza.

Sewar Elejla tells the harrowing story of Dr. Israa Ahmed’s struggle to survive, trapped under rubble for 13 hours after an Israeli bomb crushed her family’s home.

A Red Cross vehicle flying a white International Committee of the Red Cross flag with passengers drives on a dark road

Red Cross staff transfer detainees held by Hamas to the Rafah Crossing with Egypt, in southern Gaza, on 26 November.

Rizek Abdeljawad Xinhua

The Qassam Brigades released an additional 17 detainees held in Gaza, the Israeli military said. The exchange today brings the number of captives released from Gaza to 58. 39 Palestinians – women and children – have been released from Israeli prison each of the first three days in accordance with the prisoner exchange agreement. The 117 are mostly children, part of a cohort that totals some 250 children and women imprisoned in Israel, more than 80 percent of whom are being held without formal charges against them, held in what Israel calls administrative detention. There are more than 7,000 political prisoners held in Israeli jails and prisons, according to Addameer, the Palestinian prisoners rights group.