2023-10-22 18:37:53
To better understand the latest events in the conflict between the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Israel, 20 Minutes takes stock at the end of the weekend. Between the strong declarations, the diplomatic advances or the dramatic results of the fighting, here is the essential.
News of the day
Humanitarian aid has finally entered Gaza. On Saturday, a first convoy of 20 trucks was able to cross the Rafah terminal between Egypt and the Palestinian territory. The door to the only exit point from the Gaza Strip not controlled by Israel then closed, while dozens of dual nationals waited to be evacuated. Seventeen other trucks also crossed the border, as well as six fuel tanks.
However, this is far from the needs of the 2.4 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. According to the UN, each of these two shipments represents only 4% of Gaza’s imports before the war, where drinking water, electricity, food, medicine and fuel are lacking.
The number of the day
30.000. Like the number of participants in a pro-Palestine demonstration organized in Paris to say “stop the massacre in Gaza”, according to LFI MP Aurélie Trouvé. The police headquarters, which authorized the rally on Saturday, counted 15,000 participants. The PS elected officials, in the midst of a break with their LFI allies, were not present, Olivier Faure preferring another gathering for “peace”. Present at this demonstration, Jean-Luc Mélenchon severely criticized Yaël Braun-Pivet’s trip to Tel Aviv, believing that it “encourages massacre”.
Sentence of the day
It will make them regret the Second Lebanon War. »
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanese Hezbollah on Sunday that it would “make the mistake of its life” if it decided to go to war against Israel. Visiting Israeli troops deployed on the Lebanese border, he assured that “we will strike with a power that they cannot imagine and which will be devastating for the State of Lebanon” and which “will make them regret the second war of Lebanon”, in 2006, when Israel severely bombed Beirut.
Today’s trend
On Saturday, several Western powers and Arab countries organized a “peace summit” in Egypt. A final statement should have been published after the meeting organized under the aegis of Egypt and its President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi. But the meeting above all highlighted the “fault lines” between Arabs and Westerners, incapable of agreeing on a common text, on the Palestinian question.
“The disagreement concerns the condemnation of Israel, which Western countries refuse, while insisting on the condemnation of Hamas”, whose attack on October 7 on Israeli territory sparked the war, told AFP a responsible for an Arab country. The West also demanded, according to Arab diplomats, “a call for the release of the hostages”, some 200 people kidnapped by Hamas. However, Arab countries, Qatar in the lead, are in full negotiation with the Palestinian Islamist movement to obtain their release and condemning it in writing alongside countries that have pleaded “Israel’s right to defend itself” would put them in embarrassment, observers assure.
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