2023-11-10 08:11:14
Thousands of Palestinian civilians once again fled the ruined northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, November 9. After more than a month of Israeli strikes, in retaliation for the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7, several hundred thousand civilians, according to the UN, remain trapped in a disastrous humanitarian situation in the north of the Strip. Gaza.
In Israel, at least 1,400 people have been killed since the start of the war, according to the authorities, the majority of them civilians killed on the day of the attack, of a violence and scale unprecedented since the creation of the State. of Israel in 1948. In addition, 239 people were kidnapped and are being held in Gaza. In the Gaza Strip, Israeli bombings left 10,812 dead, mainly civilians, including 4,412 children, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health, a toll that no independent source is able to verify.
Israeli army strikes in Syria
Israel struck Syria this Friday, November 10 at dawn in response to a drone which fell on a school in Eilat (south) on Thursday, the Israeli army said. “In response to a drone from Syria that hit a school in Eilat, the Israel Defense Forces struck the organization that carried out the attack,” the army said in a statement and on X (formerly Twitter ), without specifying the name of this organization.
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Israel “holds the Syrian regime responsible for any terrorist act that emanates from its territory,” she added. A drone of unknown origin fell on a school in the Red Sea resort of Eilat in southern Israel on Thursday, without causing any casualties, the Israeli army said. The army also indicated that it was “continuing its operations to destroy the infrastructure of the Hezbollah terrorist movement in Lebanon.” “Fighter planes struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanese territory in response to the shooting towards Israel during the day,” said the army.
Thursday evening, the Israeli army also announced that it had intercepted a missile over the Red Sea with the Arrow 3 anti-missile defense system.
“We are not seeking to rule Gaza,” says Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu affirmed that his intention was neither to govern nor to occupy Gaza, where the army is progressing “exceptionally well” in its offensive against Hamas.
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“I think the Israeli army is behaving in an exceptional manner,” he declared Thursday evening on the American channel Fox News, before adding: “We are not seeking to govern Gaza. We are not seeking to “keep busy, but we seek to give him and us a better future.”
“Humanitarian Conference” on Gaza: one billion euros in aid
Scandicated by calls for a “ceasefire”, the “humanitarian conference” organized Thursday in Paris to try to release aid to Gaza has made it possible to reach one billion euros in new commitments since the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7.
“It is the protection of civilians that we must work on. For this we need a very rapid humanitarian pause and we must work for a ceasefire,” declared Emmanuel Macron in front of representatives of around fifty of countries and humanitarian organizations, which had until then only mentioned the need for a “truce”. If Israel has “the right to defend itself and the duty to protect its own”, its government also has “an eminent responsibility (…) to respect the law and protect civilians”, insisted the French president.
A Médecins du Monde emergency worker dies in Gaza in a bombing
A young emergency doctor working for the French humanitarian organization Médecins du Monde was killed on Sunday with his family in the bombing of their building in Gaza, AFP learned Thursday in Paris from the NGO, “deeply concerned” for his teams still on site.
Maysara Rayyes, 28, had been an emergency doctor and medical supervisor for two years at Médecins du Monde (MDM), said the association, which still employs 18 employees in the Gaza Strip, in a press release. His death “is a reflection of what the entire civilian population is experiencing” in the Palestinian territory, Florence Rigal, the president of the NGO, commented to AFP.
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In a press release, Doctors of the World “condemns since the beginning of this conflict the incessant and indiscriminate bombings of the Israeli army which continues to kill many civilians, our humanitarian colleagues and caregivers” and recalls “on this tragic occasion that a ceasefire is a vital emergency to put an end to this massacre.”
Tuesday evening, it was the organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) which deplored the death of one of its employees, a laboratory technician, in Gaza, killed with several of his relatives in an Israeli bombardment on the Gaza camp. refugees from Chati on November 6.
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