“Nothing should prevent” the Hebrew State “from defending itself,” says Yaël Braun-Pivet from Tel Aviv

2023-10-22 18:00:34

While traveling in Israel, the President of the National Assembly assured, Sunday October 22, that France “salt[enai]t fully Israel”, believing that nothing should “prevent him from defending himself” in the war between Hamas. “What is important is that the civilian populations in Gaza are victims of this conflict as little as possible. But we also know that they often serve as human shields. They must of course be preserved, but nothing should prevent Israel from defending itself”, declared Yaël Braun-Pivet from Tel Aviv. Accompanied by several deputies, she went in the morning to the kibbutz of Be’eri as well as to the site of the rave party, both targeted by Hamas. Follow our live stream.

Benyamin Netanyahu judges that Hezbollah would “the mistake of his life” by going to war against Israel. Yes, yes Hezbollah enters the conflict, “we will strike with a power that they cannot imagine and which will be devastating for the State of Lebanon”, the Israeli Prime Minister warned on Sunday. Since the start of the war triggered by the Hamas attack, tensions have been high in the border area between Israel and Lebanon. New clashes occurred this weekend at the border.

A second humanitarian aid convoy arrives in the Gaza Strip. Seventeen trucks crossed the Egyptian Rafah terminal on Sunday, heading towards the Palestinian enclave bombed and besieged by Israel, noted an AFP correspondent. Tanker trucks loaded with fuel notably entered the Palestinian enclave. On Saturday, after the passage of the first convoy of 20 trucks, the UN estimated that at least 100 trucks per day would be needed by the 2.4 million Gazans.

Israel intensifies its strikes on the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army announced on Saturday evening the intensification of its strikes on the Gaza Strip, in preparation for a ground offensive on the Palestinian enclave. “From today, we will increase strikes” on the Gaza Strip, General Daniel Hagari, spokesperson for the Israeli army, warned on Saturday, the aim being according to him to “reduce risks to our forces in the next steps” of the conflict. The Israeli army has massed tens of thousands of soldiers on the borders of this cramped territory where 2.4 million Palestinians live. According to the Hamas government, in power in the Gaza Strip, at least 55 people were killed in the territory overnight from Saturday to Sunday. No on-site source or image can support this assessment.

Israel targets mosque in West Bank. Israel, at war with Hamas, claimed to have killed in an airstrike “terrorists” who were sheltering in an underground cell of the Al-Ansar mosque in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. According to her, the mosque served as “command center for planning attacks”. According to the Jenin Red Crescent, one person died and three others were injured following the strike.

The United States is strengthening its military presence in the region. Because of “recent escalations by Iran and its affiliated forces”US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the deployment of several missile defense systems “across the region”without specifying where exactly, as well as the placement in a state of “pre-deployment” additional military resources, without detailing their number. “These measures will strengthen regional deterrence efforts, increase the protection of U.S. forces in the region and contribute to the defense of Israel,” did he declare.