2023-11-08 11:09:33
09:46
A family decimated by a strike
The Daher family was killed yesterday during an Israeli strike on the Indonesian hospital in Gaza, north of the enclave. Relatives gather for their funeral. At least nine people were killed.
REUTERS/Anas al-Shareef
09:38
Tens of thousands of civilians are still in the north
Despite the nice they population heading south, when the road is opened by the Israeli army, tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians are still in the combat zone, many sheltering in UN hospitals or schools. The very degraded conditions in the south of the Gaza Strip, and the strikes on the town of Yan Khounis, where the Israeli army was asking the population to go, would dissuade many from leaving.
09:30
Le G7 diplomate
In its final communiqué, which took hours to be published, the G7, meeting in Japan through the voice of its member foreign ministers, affirms Israel’s right to “defend” itself, and underlines “the importance of protect civilians.”
The G7 also says it supports “humanitarian pauses and corridors” and urges Iran not to support Hamas and Hezbollah.
09:21
15,000 northern Gazans fled to the south yesterday
The pace of Palestinian civilians fleeing northern Gaza has accelerated since Israel intensified its strikes: around 15,000 people fled yesterday, compared to 5,000 on Monday and 2,000 on Sunday, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. United Nations.
Civilians can move during a four-hour window set daily by the Israeli military, which provides safe passage from Gaza City and its surrounding areas to the south. Most of those fleeing are children, the elderly and people with disabilities, the UN agency says. Many of them arrived on foot with minimal belongings.
09:10
Satellite images show exodus from the north
Satellite images provided by the Maxar company yesterday showed a column of residents marching along the Sal al-Din road, evacuating Gaza City towards the south.
Maxar Technologies/Via AFP
09:00
The only suspect in Paul Kessler’s death is cooperating
A man suspected of being involved in the death of a 69-year-old Jewish man who fell on his head during two pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian protests in California on Sunday is cooperating with police. He was the one who called the emergency services, and he waited for them at the scene, then answering questions from investigators, according to Ventura County Sheriff Jim Fryhoff. Investigators are seeking videos and photos from the public to help them understand what caused Paul Kessler’s fatal fall, an anti-Semitic killing according to California Jewish organizations and former Israeli Prime Minister Benny Gantz.
08:52
Ground operation underway in Gaza City
According to the Qatari channel Al Jazeera, which relies on testimonies in the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers are currently heading towards downtown Gaza and are only 700 meters from al-Shifa hospital.
According to Israeli forces, the Hamas command center was set up under the hospital. The hospital administration denies this accusation.
08:46
A large demonstration authorized in London
The head of London’s Metropolitan Police has confirmed that the demonstration demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas can take place on Saturday, November 11, the symbolic date of the First World War. “We are going to keep this away from commemoration and armistice events,” explained Sir Mark Rowley.
08:38
Amputations without anesthesia
Hospitals are so short of medicine that some doctors in Gaza have performed operations, including amputations, without anesthesia, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization said Tuesday. “Nothing justifies the horror endured by civilians in Gaza,” said WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier during a press briefing in Geneva, emphasizing their “desperate need for water, fuel , food and safe access to health care to survive.
08:30
Rafah, hope of refugees
637 foreign nationals were evacuated yesterday from Gaza to Egypt via the Rafah border crossing, an Egyptian official told CNN. This is the highest daily number since evacuations began last week. In addition, 15 injured Palestinians arrived in Egypt for treatment through the crossing.
08:21
IDF says it killed Hamas “arms man”
Israeli military says one of its strikes killed Mohsen Abu Zina, head of Hamas arms and industries, “one of Hamas’ main weapons developers and an expert in weapons development strategic weapons and rockets used by Hamas terrorists.
The Israeli army announces that it has eliminated Mohsen Abu Zina, head of Hamas’ weapons and rocket manufacturing program. IDF
08:10
Great march: Garrido maintains the vagueness
“I saw the call” for a big march against anti-Semitism, recognizes rebellious MP Raquel Garrido on RMC. “It’s a good reflex” in the face of “the completely alarming resurgence of racist and anti-Semitic acts”, and the initiative of Gérard Larcher and Yaël Braun-Pivet is added to that of the boss of the PS Olivier Faure, recalls- she said. However, the participation of the National Rally is debated. “For the moment, I do not have the scope of this mobilization,” continues Raquel Garrido, without saying what she will do. But, she assures, “there must not be the RN in these mobilizations”.
08:00
The entire RN will join the march against anti-Semitism
“I will participate, Jordan Bardella will be there, all of our elected officials will be there and I call on all of our members and voters to join this demonstration,” says RN MP Marine Le Pen on RTL. . “It is time for the French people in all their diversity to express their total rejection of the spectacular increase in visible acts of anti-Semitism; our compatriots of the Jewish faith have been confronted with acts of this type for a very long time; entire neighborhoods have been emptied, due to the advance of an ideology that I have always fought, Islamist ideology. »
07:54
The PCF will not go to the march of the presidents of Parliament if the RN is there
In a long development, Fabien Roussel (PCF) considers it “important” that a major march against anti-Semitism be organized. He recalls the history of his party, which “has always fought racism and anti-Semitism”. But he does not plan to participate in the march if the RN is there. “Given its history, the RN has no place in such a gathering against anti-Semitism,” he said. “Perhaps we will march in another place but not with them, that’s impossible,” he concluded.
07:46
Roussel calls for an immediate ceasefire
“It’s been a month since this barbaric attack took place. Since then, blind vengeance has been visited upon the Palestinian people, as if the Netanyahu government were drawing a line of equality between Hamas and the inhabitants. It’s a mass massacre. I do not understand why there is not a unanimous call from the international community to request an immediate ceasefire,” Fabien Roussel, the national secretary of the PCF, argues on France 2.
07:39
London supports a pause, not the ceasefire
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly reiterated his government’s support for a humanitarian pause in the fighting. He said from Japan, where he is attending the G7 summit, that a ceasefire would hamper Israel’s ability to defend itself. And, he added, “we have seen and heard absolutely nothing to make us believe that the Hamas leadership is serious about the ceasefire.”
07:34
IDF names slain soldier
The Israeli army communicated overnight, after agreement from the family, the name of a soldier “killed in combat in the north of the Gaza Strip”. Major Yaacov Ozeri, 28, living in Kfar Shamai (Galilee), fought in the armored units.
In addition, three soldiers, including a fighter in a parachute brigade, were seriously injured last night.
07:29
The stakes for Israel
“For the first time in decades, the IDF is fighting in the heart of Gaza City. At the heart of terrorism,” General Yaron Finkelman said last night.
07:20
Biden confirms asking for breaks
American President Joe Biden confirmed last night that he had asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to pause the fighting for humanitarian reasons, and to promote the release of the hostages.
07:11
What Gaza says
Israeli tanks have been positioned on the outskirts in preparation for a possible assault on Gaza’s urban core, residents said. Hamas claims to have inflicted numerous losses on Israeli forces.
07:00
Gaza City surrounded, tunnels tracked
Israeli troops said yesterday that they were “in the heart of the city” of Gaza, the main Hamas stronghold in the enclave, this morning they claimed to be surrounding the city, with the aim of dismantling the tunnels underneath. The Israeli Combat Engineer Corps uses explosive devices to destroy a network of tunnels built by Hamas that stretches hundreds of kilometers beneath Gaza.
06:53
MSF announces the death of one of its employees in a bombing in the Gaza Strip
The organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) deplored on Tuesday evening the death of one of its employees in Gaza, killed along with several of his relatives in an Israeli bombardment on the Chati refugee camp on November 6.
Mohammed Al Ahel, a laboratory technician who had worked for MSF for more than two years, was killed during a bombing on the refugee camp which led to the collapse of its building, killing dozens of people, MSF said in a message on its website. “Our incessant demands for an immediate ceasefire have gone unanswered and we repeat that this is the only way to prevent further deaths in Gaza and allow the arrival of humanitarian aid. », adds MSF.
06:47
“There will be no occupation” in Gaza, says senior Israeli official
“Israel will not reoccupy the Gaza Strip,” Ron Dermer, Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, said Tuesday evening during an interview on the American channel MSNBC.
“We (Israel, Editor’s note) withdrew completely from Gaza 17 years ago and we recovered a terrorist state. We cannot repeat this, it is obvious. Once Hamas is no longer in power and its infrastructure is dismantled, Israel will have to have overall security responsibility for an indefinite period,” said Ron Dermer, who serves as an observer in the Israeli war cabinet. Asked how this responsibility will be organized, the latter acknowledged that the question remains open but affirmed “that it will not be an occupation”. The comments of this former Israeli ambassador to the United States, close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, come after Washington said it was opposed to a new long-term occupation of Gaza by Israel.
06:35
A “great march” against anti-Semitism in Paris on Sunday
The initiative was immediately welcomed by the majority, but also by the right and the far right.
06:30
A month of horror for Israel
Israel gathered on Tuesday, in silence, prayer and tears, in tribute to the victims of the unprecedented attack by Hamas a month ago, which traumatized the country.
On Tuesday evening, like the day before, hundreds of people gathered in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem for the hostages and those missing since the October 7 attack.
06:20
Benyamin Netanyahu right in his boots
06:15
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