DUBAI, November 23. /TASS/. Three medics were detained in the Gaza Strip, the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCS) reported to the Al Hadath TV channel.

"Three [Palestinian] paramedics from The Red Crescent were detained in Gaza yesterday," the organization said, without specifying why they were detained.

According to IFRC and IFRCS, 90% of the remaining patients of the Al-Shifa Hospital, as well as their family members, were evacuated on Wednesday. As the Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadeen reported earlier, the Israeli military has arrested Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the hospital’s director.

Tensions in the Middle East flared up again on October 7 after militants from the radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel announced a total blockade of Gaza and carried out air strikes on targets in the Strip, as well as on certain areas in Lebanon and Syria.

On November 22, the Hamas movement announced an agreement with Israel, achieved with mediation from Egypt and Qatar on a four-day humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The agreement will mean the release of 50 women and children under the age of 19 held hostage in Gaza in exchange for 150 women and children under the age of 19 held in Israeli prisons.