2023-10-13 19:38:05
• The Israeli army ordered, at dawn today, the evacuation within 24 hours of all civilians present in the north of Gaza City to the south. Around 1.1 million people are expected to leave their homes, suggesting an imminent military operation on Israeli soil. The UN, for its part, considered that such a population displacement was “impossible without causing devastating humanitarian consequences”.
• The Israeli army announced that it had dropped around 6,000 bombs on the Gaza Strip for a total of 4,000 tonnes of explosives since Saturday.
• A first French repatriation plane landed at Parisian Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport yesterday evening from Israel. This first “special flight” operated by Air France, which took off in the followingnoon from Tel Aviv, arrived shortly following 9 p.m. with 377 French passengers on board, in particular elderly or “vulnerable” people.
• Emmanuel Macron committed yesterday in a solemn speech to “do everything possible” to save the French hostages, whose families “begged” him to intervene, invoking the unity of the Nation in the face of political tensions and risk of importing the conflict.
• The UN has launched an emergency appeal for donations worth $294 million to meet the “urgent needs” of vulnerable residents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip where more than 400,000 Palestinians have fled their homes in recent times days. The UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said humanitarian organizations no longer had the resources to “adequately respond to the needs of vulnerable Palestinians”.
• The international NGO Human Rights Watch denounced yesterday, in a report, Israel’s use of white phosphorus in its military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, “posing the risk of serious injury to civilians.” “White phosphorus causes excruciating burns and can set homes on fire. Its use in populated areas is illegal,” recalls the NGO.
• Since the start of hostilities, triggered on October 7 by the bloody Hamas attack, around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israel. In the Gaza Strip, massive Israeli strikes launched in response left 1,417 dead, including many civilians, according to local authorities.
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