2023-12-01 21:50:31
To better understand the latest events in the conflict between the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Israel, 20 Minutes takes stock every evening. Between the strong declarations, the diplomatic advances or the dramatic results of the fighting, here are the main points of the day.
The fact of the day
The Israeli army confirmed the death of five hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, through its spokesperson Daniel Hagari. “In recent days, the Israeli army and police informed the families of their deaths,” he said. “A committee of experts (…) established their death after investigation and on the basis of intelligence information,” he declared during a press briefing, specifying that a military operation had made it possible to bring back in Israel the body of one of these five hostages.
The number of the day
57. Like the number of journalists killed in Gaza since the start of the conflict according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Three were found this Friday during Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip, according to Hamas. Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency has confirmed the death of a Palestinian freelance journalist it employed. Muntasir al-Sawwaf, who worked as a cameraman for the agency, died with his brother and “some of his relatives” in the south of the enclave, the agency said.
Sentence of the day
Hamas will now receive the worst beating”
“Hamas will now receive the worst possible beating,” Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy said in a press statement after the truce expired at 6 a.m. In the afternoon, the Israeli army assured that it had struck “more than 200 terrorist targets” in the Gaza Strip in barely ten hours.
In particular, it claims to have hit areas “trapped by explosives, tunnels used for terrorist purposes, (rocket) launch pads and operations command centers” of Hamas. The Hamas Health Ministry reports more than 178 deaths in Israeli bombardments from the air, sea and ground.
Today’s trend
The truce ended between Israel and Hamas this morning at six o’clock. A resumption of hostilities for which the camps blame each other, Tel Aviv pointing to a Palestinian rocket attack at dawn and a failure to communicate a list of hostages to be released. For its part, Hamas indicated in a press release that it had “proposed an exchange of prisoners and elderly people” among the hostages, as well as the handover to Israel of the bodies of hostages “who lost their lives in the Israeli bombings” on Gaza. .
Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the UN, said he “deeply regrets” the end of this truce. At dawn, Qatari and Egyptian mediators were still working to extend the humanitarian pause. “The breakdown of the truce is very bad and regrettable news, because it does not provide any solution and it complicates the resolution of all the questions that arise,” reacted the head of French diplomacy, Catherine Colonna. Another important actor, the United States “continues to work with Israel, Egypt and Qatar on ways to extend the humanitarian truce in Gaza,” according to the White House.
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