2023-10-08 19:37:25
Have you taken a break from the news in the last two days? We summarize the main information for Saturday October 7 and Sunday October 8.
Hamas’s attack on Israel
In Gaza City, October 8, 2023, during an Israeli airstrike. MAHMUD HAMS / AFP
Israeli forces on Sunday tracked down hundreds of Palestinian fighters infiltrated into their territory and bombarded the Gaza Strip, after an unprecedented Hamas offensive against Israel. The surprise attack, launched on Saturday at dawn by the Islamist movement, left hundreds dead on both camps. The army announced on Sunday morning that it would evacuate all residents living near Palestinian territory within the next twenty-four hours. The Israeli government said that “more than a hundred prisoners” were in the hands of Hamas.
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In the north, the Israeli army struck a Lebanese Hezbollah target in southern Lebanon using a drone. Earlier in the morning, Shiite militia fired shells into a contested sector of the border area. The UN Security Council is due to hold an emergency meeting on the situation in the Middle East on Sunday. The United States, the European Union and other countries around the world strongly condemned Hamas attacks on Israel on Saturday, with Germany stressing a risk “major regional escalation”.
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In France, the “ambiguities” of La France insoumise on Israel denounced by Elisabeth Borne
Elisabeth Borne during her speech at the European campus of Renaissance, the party of the presidential camp, in Bordeaux, October 8, 2023. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
Out of step with the rest of French political parties, which have largely condemned the assault against the Jewish state, the position put forward by various members of La France insoumise (LFI) in reaction to the massive attacks launched by Hamas in Israel has made the the subject of criticism, including by some of his allies on the left.
“The armed offensive by Palestinian forces led by Hamas comes in a context of intensification of the Israeli occupation policy in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem”, said the LFI parliamentary group in a press release on Saturday. For his part, Jean-Luc Mélenchon carefully avoided taking a position by explaining on what “all the violence unleashed against Israel and in Gaza only proves one thing: violence only produces and reproduces itself”. LFI is thus accused of finding justifications for the attack by denouncing the Islamist movement in the same way as Israeli colonization.
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In front of the Renaissance party activists gathered in Bordeaux, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, reacted on Sunday, castigating “the revolting ambiguities [de LFI] facing the drama of recent hours”. “The positions of La France insoumise are well known, with a lot of ambiguity, with anti-Zionism, so in fact, it is sometimes also a way of masking a kind of anti-Semitism”, she then declared on BFM-TV. The declarations of the “rebellious” also aroused the anger of socialist elected officials, like senator Laurence Rossignol or deputy Jérôme Guedj.
More than 2,000 dead in Afghanistan earthquake
In Zinda Jan district of Herat province in western Afghanistan on October 8, 2023. OMID HAQJOO / AP
The death toll from the earthquake which hit Afghanistan on Saturday was reassessed at more than 2,000 dead, according to a communication from the Taliban government on Sunday morning. The 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the west of the country. The epicenter of the earthquake was located 40 kilometers northwest of Herat – a city considered the cultural capital of Afghanistan – and it was quickly followed by four strong aftershocks of magnitude 5.5, 4.7 , 6.3 and 5.9, reported the United States Institute of Geosciences (USGS).
Zabihullah Mujahid, one of the government spokespersons, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday that 2,053 people died in thirteen villages. “Ten rescue teams reached the scene”, also says the message, which specifies that 1,240 people were injured. In Herat, residents and business owners fled buildings when the earthquake struck around 11 a.m. local time (8:30 a.m. French time) on Saturday.
Read also: Earthquake in Afghanistan: more than 2,000 dead near Herat according to the Taliban, several villages destroyed
Conditions for access to zero-rate loans relaxed
Bruno Le Maire, leaving the Elysée, in Paris, October 4, 2023. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
The conditions for access to zero-interest loans will be relaxed, in response to the real estate crisis, Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, announced on Friday. daily regional South West. “Faced with increasing interest rates, we will expand access to zero-interest loans [PTZ] simplifying the scale and increasing the ceiling”declared the minister in an interview. “This will be done in the coming weeks so that six million additional French people benefit”he added.
The PTZ allows households, mainly first-time buyers, to limit the cost of financing their main residence, in new buildings and if they carry out work, in particular by improving energy performance, in old buildings.
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Rugby World Cup: Imperial Ireland brushes aside Scotland
Josh van der Flier’s Irish (left) won their final match of the Rugby World Cup group stages against Scotland at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, on October 7, 2023. FRANCK FIFE / AFP
By inflicting a correction on Scotland (36-14), Saturday at the Stade de France (Saint-Denis), Jonathan Sexton and his teammates signed a fourth consecutive victory at the World Cup, at the same time validating their qualification for the quarterfinals. final.
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Thanks to this immaculate record, the Irish finish at the top of Group B and will have the perilous privilege of facing New Zealand in the quarter-finals. By a billiard shot with several cushions that an Irish fan of snooker, the XV of France also knows its opponent in the next round. First in Group A, the Blues will challenge South Africa on Sunday October 15 at the Stade de France, the reigning world champions finishing in second place in Group B.
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