“The risk of regional conflagration has never been so important”, says the French Minister of Foreign Affairs

2024-01-06 21:58:16

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna called her Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Saturday January 6 to urge “Iran and its cronies” to stop “immediately” their “destabilizing actions” in the Middle East, amid fears of an export of the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Catherine Colonna asserts about to have “sends a very clear message: the risk of regional conflagration has never been so significant.” This live is over.

Lebanon must not be “dragged into a regional conflict”, says the head of EU diplomacy. “It is imperative to avoid regional escalation in the Middle East, it is absolutely necessary to prevent Lebanon from being drawn into a regional conflict”declared the head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, during a press conference in Beirut with his Lebanese counterpart.

The Israeli army carries out strikes against Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon. “Air Force fighter jets and other IDF forces attacked a series of targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah earlier today in the areas of Aita al-Sha’ab, Yaron and Ramya in southern Lebanon”, announced the Israeli army on the social network , Wednesday south of Beirut.

Gaza has become a “place of death”, “uninhabitable” according to the UN. The Palestinian enclave, scene of clashes between Israel and Hamas for nearly three months, has become a “place of death”, alerts the UN. She is “simply become uninhabitable”and its inhabitants “face daily threats before the eyes of the world”, summarized the United Nations humanitarian affairs coordinator, Martin Griffiths. For Unicef, the war, malnutrition and the health situation have created “a cycle of death that threatens more than 1.1 million children” gazaouis.

Hamas announces a new death toll of 22,722. This tally from the Palestinian Movement’s Health Ministry includes the 122 people killed in the past 24 hours in Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip since the war began on October 7. Hamas also reports 58,166 people injured. No source on site can independently support this assessment.