2024-02-13 18:06:36
Soon a break in the fighting? International pressure intensified on Tuesday, February 13, for a truce agreement between Israel and Hamas including a new release of hostages, following the Israeli announcement of an upcoming offensive on Rafah, the last refuge for more than one million Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip. Egypt, traditional mediator between Israel and the Palestinians, hosted the American and Israeli intelligence directors as well as the Qatari Prime Minister on Tuesday for discussions on a truce. Follow our live stream.
French sanctions once morest Israeli settlers. France “adopts sanctions once morest extremist Israeli settlers who are guilty of violence once morest Palestinian civilians in the West Bank”, announced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release, Tuesday February 13. In details, “28 individuals are subject to an administrative ban from French territory.” The Quai d’Orsay also specifies that France “is also in favor of the adoption of sanctions at European level once morest these violent settlers”.
Words from the head of UNRWA. Dismantling the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) would be a “disaster”, said his boss on Tuesday February 13, under pressure following the discovery, according to the Israeli army, of a Hamas tunnel under the organization’s headquarters in Gaza. Speaking to journalists following being heard by diplomats in Geneva, the head of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, also called for a “investigation”, following the end of the war in Gaza, on the Hamas tunnels and on the attacks once morest the population and UN installations in Gaza carried out by the Israeli army.
China’s statements. China calls on Israel to stop “as quickly as possible” its military operation in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, in order “to prevent an even more serious humanitarian catastrophe”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently ordered his army to prepare an offensive on Rafah, where 1.4 million Palestinians are massed according to the UN, or more than half of the territory’s total population.
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