A shipment of medicine for dozens of hostages held by Hamas was en route to the besieged Gaza Strip on Wednesday after France and Qatar mediated the first agreement between Israel and the Palestinian group since a week-long ceasefire broke down in November. The medicines will be shipped through Egypt and delivered to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which will then hand them over to Hamas. Qatar said the deal also includes the delivery of additional medicine and humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the besieged coastal enclave. The deal comes more than 100 days into Israel’s brutal…