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Main events on September 22nd

  • France, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta and Monaco become latest countries to recognise State of Palestine.
  • At a conference to discuss two-state solution, France’s President Macron said: “We have gathered here because the time has come”.
  • Palestinian President Abbas says Hamas will have no role in governance of Gaza and asked the group to hand over its wepaons to the Palestinian Authority.
  • At least 37 people were killed across Gaza by the Israeli army.
  • Gaza’s Health Ministry says al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital and the St John Eye Hospital in Gaza City are out of service due to Israeli bombing of their surrounding areas.
  • Israel’s Foreign Ministry has threatened a Gaza-bound flotilla that is carrying aid and trying to break the blockade of the Palestinian territory, warning that it will “not allow the naval blockade of Gaza to be breached”.
  • Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, has released a video of Israeli captive Alon Ohel, who has been held in Gaza since October 7, 2023.