2023-12-12 21:27:53
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
This Tuesday, American President Joe Biden affirmed that unlike his country, the Israeli government did not want “a two-state solution”. “This is the most conservative government in the history of Israel,” he said before calling on it to change government.
As for Benjamin Netanyahu, he expressed a “disagreement” with Washington on the “post-Hamas period” and promised “not to repeat the mistake of Oslo”, in reference to the agreements between Israel and the PLO concluded in 1993 on Palestinian autonomy which allowed the establishment of the Palestinian Authority. “Gaza will be neither a Hamastan nor a Fatahstan,” he insisted, referring to the two movements of Hamas and Fatah.
The number of the day
Two. This is the number of Israeli hostages recovered during an operation in Gaza. The bodies matched those of Eden Zakaria, 28, kidnapped at the Noval music festival, and Ziv Dado, a 36-year-old soldier killed in the October 7 attack. Two reservist soldiers were also killed last Thursday during the operation to recover the bodies, according to the Israeli army.
Sentence of the day
Back in Gaza, a tragedy that gets worse and worse. People are everywhere, living on the streets, lacking everything. They beg for safety and an end to this hell on earth”
This is a statement from the director of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), Philippe Lazzarini, after a visit to the territory. The Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated territories in the world, has been shelled relentlessly by the Israeli army since the October 7 attack carried out by the Islamic movement Hamas on Israeli territory. In Gaza, 18,412 deaths have been counted since the start of the conflict according to the announcement from the Hamas Ministry of Health on Tuesday.
Today’s trend
Faced with the siege imposed by Israel since the start of the conflict, the UN General Assembly must decide on Tuesday on a resolution demanding “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip. “We must stop this war, and we must stop it now,” Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour insisted on Tuesday, insisting on the “right” of Palestinians to be “angry”. Before adding: “We believe that we will succeed in getting almost the entire international community to call for a humanitarian ceasefire.”
Friday, despite pressure from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres who feared a “total collapse of public order” in the Palestinian territory, a draft text calling for this humanitarian ceasefire clashed with the Council on Friday security to a veto by the United States, Israel’s powerful ally.
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