2024-10-07 11:14:00
A ceremony in tribute to the victims this evening at the Dôme de Paris
One year after October 7, the Crif is organizing a ceremony on Monday to pay homage, in the presence of numerous ministers including Michel Barnier, to the victims of the Hamas attack. Around 4,000 people are expected on Monday evening at the Dôme in Paris for this ceremony “in homage to the victims” and “in support of the hostages still held captive”, where videos and photos of the hostages will be broadcast.
“Israel will pay the price for the genocide it has been committing for a year,” says Erdogan
The French mirror investigation into October 7 identified 65 victims
One year after the unprecedented October 7 attack perpetrated in Israel by Hamas, French justice has identified 65 French victims, including two people still “in the hands of Hamas”, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) said on Monday. Of the 65, 48 died (eleven soldiers and 37 civilians, including 4 minors). According to the Pnat, of the 65 people, 54 are civilians and 11 are part of the internal security forces.
Eight firefighters killed in Israeli attack in southern Lebanon, local official says
French religions launch a united appeal for peace in the Middle East
The leaders of French religions launched a united appeal on Monday “for peace and brotherhood” and asked not to “import the conflict to France”, in a text published a year later on 7 October.
“We, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist religious leaders, call for the release of all hostages, a ceasefire and together reaffirm our common values”, states here the Conference of French Religious Leaders (CRCF ). international appeal for peace and brotherhood”. “Anti-Muslim hatred and discrimination are growing worryingly and anti-Semitic acts have further increased exponentially,” recalls the text, which underlines that “for Jews and Muslims the wounds are acute and painful”.
The Pope chastises the “shameful inability” of the great powers of the Middle East
Pope Francis criticized the “shameful inability” of the great powers to achieve a ceasefire in the area in a letter to Catholics in the Middle East on Monday, a year after the October 7 massacres and Israel’s military response in Gaza. “A year ago the fuse of hatred was lit. It has not become extinct, but has ignited in a spiral of violence” made possible “by the shameful inability of the international community and the most powerful countries to silence the weapons and put an end to the tragedy of war”, wrote the sovereign pontiff .
Israeli escalation will lead to a “regional war”, accuses the head of Jordanian diplomacy in Beirut
The head of Jordanian diplomacy, Ayman Safadi, accused Israel on Monday in Beirut of having “full responsibility” for an “escalation” that will drag the Middle East into “a regional war”. “Israeli aggression […] “Beginning in Gaza and now extending to Lebanon will push the entire region into the abyss of an all-out regional war,” he said during a visit to Lebanon, where Israel and Hezbollah have been in open warfare since September 23 after a year of cross-border warfare . fire.
“We are obliged to bring back” the hostages, Netanyahu says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel has an obligation to return its hostages, during a ceremony marking the one-year anniversary on Oct. 7. “On this day, in this place and in many places in our country, we remember our dead, our hostages – who we are obliged to bring back, and our heroes who fell in defense of the homeland and the country,” the Israeli said Prime Minister during this ceremony in Jerusalem.
The Israeli Defense Minister says he is determined to do everything to “defeat” his enemies
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared on Monday his commitment to doing everything to “defeat” Israel’s enemies, at war on multiple fronts exactly one year after the Palestinian attack by Hamas in the south of the country. “We are deeply committed to continuing to take all necessary measures to defeat our enemies and defend our homeland,” he said in a statement.
The Hamas Ministry of Health announces the new death toll of 41,909
At least 39 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, it said in a statement, adding that 97,303 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war began on October 7, 2023.
The head of the US central command visits Israel, meeting focused “on Iran”
The Israeli military announced on Monday that the head of the US Central Command (Centcom), General Erik Kurilla, met on Sunday with General Herzi Halevi, chief of staff of the Israeli army, for discussions focused on Iran and Lebanon.
The military wing of Hamas claims rocket fire on Tel Aviv
The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades “struck deep into the occupation territory (name given by Hamas to Israel), hitting the city of Tel Aviv with a barrage of M90 missiles as part of the ongoing war of attrition.” Wing said in a statement.
Warning sirens in central Israel after rocket fire from Gaza, the Israeli army says
Warning sirens sounded in central Israel after rocket fire from Gaza on Monday, the army said in a statement. Sirens also sounded in Tel Aviv where several wiretaps were also heard, according to an AFP journalist present at the scene.
Hezbollah says it targeted Israeli troops in Lebanese village on the border
Hezbollah said on Monday it had targeted Israeli soldiers in the village of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon on the border with Israel, which has been carrying out ground incursions into Lebanon for a week. Hezbollah fighters “bombed Israeli forces in Maroun al-Ras with a salvo of rockets,” according to the statement from the pro-Iranian movement, which had previously announced that it had bombed several locations and military positions in northern Israel.
“France will never stop calling for the unconditional release of the hostages,” declares the French Foreign Minister
“France mourns together with Israel, our compatriots” killed in the attack on 7 October 2003, declared French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot in a context of dispute between the two countries after French President Emmanuel Macron had expressed support for suspending deliveries to Israel of weapons that could be used in the war on Gaza. “France will never abandon its compatriots, France will never stop asking Hamas for the unconditional release of all hostages,” the minister added.
“France mourns alongside Israel, our compatriots” killed, says the French Foreign Minister in Réïm
“France is tirelessly committed to the security of Israel,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Monday at a ceremony in Israel honoring the victims of the Hamas attack a year ago.
Israeli soldiers engaged in the field in Lebanon
The Israeli army announced Monday that soldiers belonging to a third division are now engaged in ground combat against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. “Soldiers of the 91st Division began a localized and targeted operational activity in southern Lebanon yesterday, Sunday,” the army said in a statement.
The October 7 attack brought Israel back to square one: a senior Hamas official
“The Al-Aqsa flood brought the occupier back to square one and threatened its existence,” Khaled Meshaal, former Hamas leader, said on the Al Arabiya channel, using the name given by the Palestinian Islamic movement to this unprecedented attack on Israeli soil, which sparked the war in Gaza.
According to Hezbollah, Israel is a “cancerous” entity that will eventually have to be “eliminated.”
The UK will not “falter” in the “quest for peace”, says Starmer
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday that his country “will not weaken” in its “quest for peace”, a year after the “terrible” October 7 massacre by Hamas in Israel.
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