2023-10-31 07:30:20
Franco-Israeli families in Paris to make their voices heard
Around ten families of Franco-Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian organization Hamas arrived Monday evening in Paris to “make themselves heard”, noted an AFP journalist.
They were welcomed at Roissy airport by around twenty people who held up portraits of hostages. “We want the international community to put pressure on Hamas to release all the hostages,” said Adva Adar, whose grandmother was kidnapped. “We want to talk to the authorities, to all Europeans so that they are on the right side,” explains Daniel Toledano, whose brother was kidnapped during a music festival.
Strikes near a Palestinian Red Crescent hospital
The Palestinian Red Crescent was alarmed this Tuesday by strikes near one of its hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip, where civilians took refuge to protect themselves from Israeli bombings. “Continued artillery and air strikes in the Tel al-Hawa area of Gaza where al-Quds hospital is located,” the organization wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter). “The building is shaking and displaced civilians and working teams are in fear and panic,” she added. The Red Crescent had already reported bombings in this area on Sunday evening.
The hospital director told AFP that he had received the order to evacuate from the Israeli army.
The White House considers it possible to bring 100 trucks per day into Gaza
The White House considers it possible to arrive “in the coming days” to bring “100 trucks per day” of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, declared Monday evening John Kirby, spokesperson for the National Security Council, after that President Joe Biden called on Sunday to “dramatically and immediately” increase the flow of assistance to this Palestinian territory.
Storming of an airport by anti-Israel militants comparable to a “pogrom”, according to the White House
The storming of an airport in the predominantly Muslim Russian republic of Dagestan on Sunday by a crowd of men hostile to Israel is comparable to a “pogrom”, the White House ruled on Monday.
“Some will compare this to the pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and I think that’s probably an apt description, given the video that’s circulating,” said the National Security Council spokesperson. John Kirby White House.
A ceasefire would be “a surrender to Hamas”, insists Netanyahu
While Israel continues to shell the Gaza Strip from the air and increase pressure against Hamas on the ground, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any negotiations with Hamas on Monday.
“Calls for a ceasefire are calls to surrender to Hamas,” he said, for example. Our article.
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