2023-10-24 07:20:42
07:19
Privately, Washington urges Israel to exercise restraint
The Reuters agency affirms, like the New York Times, that the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department have increased private calls for caution in their conversations with the Israelis. Washington wants to give more time to negotiations to free hostages.
A U.S. official said the administration, aware of Doha’s role as an intermediary with Hamas, was keeping Qatari officials informed of its advice to Israel.
07:09
IDF says it has hit more than 400 targets since yesterday
The Israeli army announces on X that it has “attacked more than 400 military targets in the Gaza Strip and eliminated (three, Editor’s note) commanders of the terrorist organization”. The neighborhoods of Sajaiya, Shatti, Jabaliya, Darj Tafah and Zeitoun were thus targeted, where “armed members of Hamas were preparing to launch rocket attacks and other terrorist actions towards the Israeli rear”. An Israeli plane also damaged, according to the army report, “an operational tunnel shaft used by the terrorist organization.”
07:06
Emmanuel Macron will meet Mahmoud Abbas
The French president, after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neatanyahou, and opposition leader Yaïr Lapid, will travel to Ramallah, in the West Bank, to the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority. Supporter of a two-state peace solution, Emmanuel Macron wants to speak with Mahmoud Abbas.
06:57
Obama’s warning
In a rare official statement on an ongoing situation, former US President Barack Obama warned Israel against a strategy that “could ultimately backfire.” Some of Israel’s actions in its war against Hamas, such as cutting off food and water to Gaza, could “reinforce the Palestinian attitude for generations” and weaken international support for Israel, he wrote.
During his two terms, Obama and his administration, including Joe Biden, who was vice president, sought, unsuccessfully, to negotiate a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
06:49
IDF does not ease the pressure
Israel shelled hundreds of targets in Gaza on Monday as its soldiers carried out incursions into the enclave against Hamas fighters.
Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi issued a statement last night suggesting that Israel had no intention of curbing its strikes and that the armed forces were well prepared for a ground attack. “We want to bring Hamas to a state of complete dismantling,” he wrote.
06:46
Biden weighs in on Netanyahu over humanitarian aid
In addition to the need for Hamas to release all the hostages he holdsand his support for Israel, United States President Joe Biden, in his evening meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, once again “underscored the need to maintain a continuous flow of emergency humanitarian aid to Gaza” , according to an account of the conversation provided by the White House.
06:41
The two hostages were kidnapped from a kibbutz
Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Cooper, the two Israeli hostages aged 85 and 79 freed yesterday by Hamas, were kidnapped with their husbands on October 7 in the kibbutz of Nir Oz, close to the Gaza Strip.
06:34
French families are at the airport
Relatives of Hamas victims or one of the seven missing French people arrived at Tel Aviv airport for an interview with President Macron.
30 French people were killed in the attacks.
06:30
A happy grandson
Yosheved Lifshitz, 85, and Nurit Cooper, 79, are the names of the two women released yesterday by Hamas.
On Instagram, Yosheved’s grandson Daniel posted a photo of his family surrounding his grandmother at Sourasky Hospital in Tel Aviv. Everyone has a smile. “She talks, she walks, she can hug her grandchildren, we are relieved,” he told CNN.
In a previous message, he affirmed the urgent need to “bring grandma and grandpa home,” meaning that his grandfather was also captured.
06:22
President Macron’s plane landed in Tel Aviv
06:13
“The hostages must be released, then we can talk,” says Biden
Discussions on a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas will only be possible after the release of all the hostages held by the Palestinian Islamist movement, Joe Biden said on Monday.
“The hostages must be released, then we can discuss,” declared the American president when asked about his support for a “hostages for ceasefire” agreement.
05:54
Two hostages released
According to Israeli media, they are two octogenarian Israeli women from Kibbutz Nir Oz, near Gaza. Footage from Egyptian television showed the two women lying in ambulances once they arrived in Egyptian territory.
05:36
What program for the French president?
Emmanuel Macron is due to meet this Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, opposition leaders Benny Gantz and Yaïr Lapid as well as families of French or Franco-Israelis killed in the attack or taken as hostages by the Hamas in Gaza.
His plane is due to land at 6:30 a.m. French time.
05:23
Emmanuel Macron expected in Tel Aviv
The French head of state will express in Tel Aviv France’s “support” for “Israel and the French people of Israel”, plead for a “humanitarian truce” and propose relaunching a “real peace process” after the deadly Hamas attack on October 7 against this country and the Israeli military response in Gaza.
“This message of solidarity is unambiguous. There is no reservation, there is no yes but. We owe the Israelis our most complete solidarity in the face of terrorist attacks of a scale and cruelty “unprecedented since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Elysée underlined on Monday.
> The challenges of a trip under high tension, an article to read ici.
05:23
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