On the 62nd day of the war, the Israeli army intensified its operations in southern Gaza. Israeli forces and Hamas are engaged in house-to-house ground fighting across the Gaza Strip, with devastating consequences for the civilian population amid a complete halt to humanitarian aid. On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres invoked a rarely used clause in the UN Charter and raised the issue on his own initiative in the Security Council to warn that the conflict “could exacerbate existing threats to international peace”. and security”. “We are facing a serious risk of the collapse of the humanitarian system,” Guterres wrote in a letter to the council. “The situation is rapidly deteriorating into a catastrophe with potentially irreversible consequences for the Palestinians as a whole and for peace and security in the region.”

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05:40 Several Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip were detained overnight after an Israeli raid in the town of Farun near Tulkarem, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Sources in Tulkarem told Wafa that Israeli forces attacked Kamal Salama’s building in the city and took workers from their apartments.

05:00 The head of the European Union’s foreign policy department, Josep Borrell, called on EU members in the UN Security Council and other countries to support UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

The Security Council “must act immediately to prevent a complete collapse of the humanitarian situation in Gaza,” Borrell wrote on social media. On Wednesday, Guterres invoked the rarely used Article 99 of the UN Charter to push the Security Council to pass a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.

01:14 Smoke rose over the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Israeli forces battled Hamas militants in Gaza after expanding their ground offensive into the second-largest city of Khan Younis.

The attack on the south threatens further mass displacement in the besieged coastal enclave, where about 1.87 million people – more than 80 percent of the population – have already fled their homes, according to the United Nations.

00:46 Egypt: Ahead of presidential elections, the war in Gaza has surpassed al-Sisi’s record

The shockwave caused by the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip brought no surprise to Egypt’s presidential election, managing to interfere with the election campaign to the point of completely overshadowing it.

While all the television in the country is focused on images of the devastation in the Palestinian enclave, the vote, scheduled for December 10-12, remains somewhere in the background, and for many Egyptians it seems like a non-event.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, however, is campaigning. His face is everywhere in the capital, on huge billboards on roadsides and bridges. according to Le Monde.