2024-04-27 15:30:47
A Palestinian child stands near objects recovered from the debris of a house destroyed by an Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 27, 2024. – / AFP
Hospital officials in Rafah said that bombings left more than a dozen dead on the night of Friday April 26 to Saturday April 27. Elsewhere in the city, people searched through the rubble of houses which, according to a young witness at the scene, had been “bombed without prior warning”. On Saturday, the Israeli military said its planes had struck more than 25 targets over the previous day in the Gaza Strip.
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In twenty-four hours, at least 32 additional deaths were recorded, according to a statement from the Hamas health ministry, which reports more than 34,388 Palestinians dead in the Gaza Strip in more than 200 days of war. On the Israeli side, the conflict that began on October 7 resulted in the deaths of more than 1,170 people, mainly civilians, according to a report from Agence France-Presse (AFP) based on official Israeli data.
Despite fears and calls for restraint from the international community, Israel is still preparing to launch a ground offensive in Rafah, where a million and a half Palestinians are crowded together, many in tent camps, without water or electricity. .
An Israeli counter-proposal studied by Hamas with a view to a truce
Hamas announced on Saturday ” to study “ an Israeli counter-proposal for a truce in the fighting in Gaza associated with the release of hostages, the day after the arrival in Israel of a delegation of Egyptian mediators to try to relaunch the deadlocked negotiations. “Today, Hamas received the official response from the Zionist occupation [Israël]to our position which had been handed over to the Egyptian and Qatari mediators on April 13”declared the number 2 of Hamas’s political branch for Gaza, Khalil Al-Hayya. “The movement will study this proposal and submit its response once its study is completed”he added in a press release published the same day.
Hamas had previously insisted on a permanent ceasefire, a hypothesis rejected by Israel, which instead insisted on a pause of several weeks in the fighting.
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Egypt, Qatar and the United States are trying in vain to conclude a new truce agreement in Gaza, after a week-long pause in fighting in November, which allowed the exchange of 80 hostages for 240 Palestinian detainees.
The details of the Israeli counter-proposal have not been filtered but the Israeli press mentioned earlier this week the possible release, initially, of 20 hostages considered to be “humanitarian cases”.
Mahmoud Abbas and international leaders in Riyadh to discuss the situation in Gaza
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and several international leaders will travel to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this week for talks on a peace deal in the Gaza Strip, on the sidelines of a meeting of the World Economic Forum. At a press conference, the president of the organization, Borge Brende, said: “We now have the key players in Riyadh and we hope that the discussions can lead to a process of reconciliation and peace. » There will also be “discussions, of course, about the humanitarian situation in Gaza”while “regional aspects, including with Iran, will be discussed” during a meeting which could “become very important”he added.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will attend the meetings in the Saudi capital alongside regional leaders, including the prime minister of Qatar, the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, the crown prince of Oman and officials Bahrainis, said Mr. Brende.
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According to the latter, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Choukry, should take stock of Friday’s discussions with the Israeli delegation, the aim of which is to relaunch negotiations, currently in an impasse, on a ceasefire. in Gaza and achieve the release of hostages held by Hamas. “There is now some momentum for hostage negotiations and a possible ceasefire”said Borge Brende.
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In Lebanon, three dead in Israeli strikes
Three people, including two Hezbollah fighters, were killed in Israeli strikes that targeted several towns in southern Lebanon overnight, the Shiite party reported on Saturday. The official National Information Agency, ANI, for its part reported that “Israeli warplanes carried out today [samedi] at dawn two raids on the towns of Kfar Chouba and Chebaa »which led to “the death of citizen Qasim Asaad” To Kfar Chouba.
In recent hours, several towns in southern Lebanon have been subjected to Israeli strikes which, according to ANI, caused material damage. Hezbollah also announced on Saturday in a press release that it had targeted “new positions of enemy soldiers” west of Shumira, in northern Israel, after targeting two military sites the day before with dozens of Katyusha rockets, in response to an Israeli strike.
Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanese Islamist group close to Palestinian Hamas, said Friday that two of its executives had been killed in this Israeli strike in eastern Lebanon. The Israeli army confirmed that its air force had “hit and eliminated Mosab Khalaf in the Meidoun region of Lebanon, a high-ranking terrorist from the Jamaa Islamiya terrorist organization who planned a large number of terrorist attacks against Israel”.
Two young Palestinians killed near Jenin
Two Palestinians were shot dead overnight by Israeli soldiers near a military base at the entrance to the West Bank city of Jenin, the Israeli army announced on Saturday, saying its soldiers had responded to the shots. The Palestinian Authority announced in a press release “the martyrdom of Mustapha Sultan Abed (21 years old) and Ahmad Muhammad Shawahneh (20 years old), who fell under the bullets of the occupier last night in Jenin”. The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, for its part, declared that the two men had been killed “near the Salem military base, west of Jenin”adding that two “other young men had been injured”.
Jenin, home to one of the most populous and poor refugee camps in the Palestinian territories, is a stronghold of armed groups fighting against Israel, which has occupied the West Bank since 1967. In recent months, the Israeli army has carried out several operations to Jenin and its surroundings, to dismantle “terrorist cells”.
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The influential Shiite religious leader Moqtada Sadr, troublemaker of Iraqi political life, welcomed on Saturday the pro-Palestinian demonstrations which are shaking American campusescalling for an end to ” repression “ aimed at the movement. “The voice of American universities calling to stop Zionist terrorism is our voice”, he insisted. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations starting from Columbia University in New York have spread to several American campuses, including prestigious establishments such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
The “freedom flotilla” for Gaza remained blocked on Saturday in Türkiye, deprived of a navigation flag following “pressures” Israelis, according to the organizers. The coalition of NGOs and associations denounced “administrative obstacles” which prevent them from going to sea after Guinea-Bissau withdrew its flag, surrendering ” accomplice ” of Israel, she accuses in a press release.
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