2023-10-10 11:39:00
1:46 p.m. “Clear evidence” of possible war crimes in Israel and Gaza
“There is already clear evidence of possible war crimes,” committed both in Israel and the Gaza Strip, according to independent UN investigators who have been gathering and preserving evidence since Saturday and the launch of the Hamas offensive.
“Those who violated international law and targeted civilians must answer for their crimes,” the three members of the International Commission of Inquiry on Israel and the Palestinian Territories said Tuesday in Geneva. They call for the hostages to be released “unconditionally” and recall that this detention of civilians constitutes a war crime.
The Commission also says it is “worried” regarding Israeli raids and the announcement of a total siege of the Gaza Strip. Like the UN before it, it explains that the deprivation of electricity, food, water or healthcare which is not militarily justified constitutes “collective punishment”. It calls on the parties to the conflict to put an end to the violence and to honor international law.
1:34 p.m. Israeli-Palestinian conflict: what we know regarding the hostages held by Hamas
In response to the total blockade of the Gaza Strip, Hamas threatens to execute hostages. There are around 150 according to the Israeli government, most of whom were kidnapped on Saturday during an open-air festival.
11:54 Egypt closes Rafah border crossing
The Rafah crossing, on the southern border of the Gaza Strip with Egypt, has been closed until further notice, an Egyptian security source told the German news agency DPA.
The retaliatory attacks carried out by Israel on the Gaza Strip, following the massive and surprise Hamas attack on Saturday which left hundreds dead, make the area too dangerous for civilians and workers, according to this source. It adds that a state of alert is in force along the border to prevent any infiltration attempts.
11:35 a.m. Israel: the death toll rises to 4 French people killed in the Hamas attack
Four French people were killed in the Hamas attack on Israel, according to a new report published Tuesday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“France deplores the tragic death of two other French nationals, which brings to four the number of French victims of terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas,” said the Quai d’Orsay in a press release.
Among the French people killed was Avidan T., 26, a young Frenchman from Bordeaux (southwest) and living in Israel, the consistory of Bordeaux and the deputy for French people abroad Meyer Habib (right) announced on Tuesday. who reported the disappearance of the young man on Monday.
11:29 a.m. WHO calls for humanitarian corridor to Gaza
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday called for the opening of a humanitarian corridor to the Gaza Strip sealed off and bombarded by Israeli forces following Hamas attacks which left hundreds dead in Israel.
“A humanitarian corridor is needed to deliver essential medical supplies to populations,” WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic told a UN briefing in Geneva.
He said the organization was working on it with “partners”.
11:28 UN offices in Gaza damaged by strikes
The offices of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) were “significantly damaged” by an Israeli raid on a building in Gaza. This situation violates international law, a spokesperson told the press in Geneva on Tuesday.
The employees “were in buildings on the site” which was damaged, she added. In total, 18 UN agency infrastructures were affected and more than 137,000 people took refuge with UNRWA structures.
10:50 a.m. 3 Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli strikes
Three Palestinian journalists were killed early Tuesday by an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential building near Gaza City’s fishing port, a journalists’ union and a civil servant said.
The local journalists’ union announced in a statement “the martyrdom of three journalists in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing Israeli aggression.” The director of the Hamas-led government’s media office, Salameh Maarouf, gave the identities of the victims: Said al-Taweel, Mohammed Sobboh and Hisham Nawajhah.
10:25 The total siege of Gaza is prohibited by international humanitarian law, recalls the UN
The total siege of the Gaza Strip, announced Monday by the Israeli Minister of Defense, is “prohibited” by international humanitarian law, the UN recalled Tuesday.
“The imposition of sieges that endanger the lives of civilians by depriving them of goods essential to their survival is prohibited by international humanitarian law”said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk in a statement.
08:02 “Around 1,500 bodies” of Hamas fighters found in Israel
The Israeli army said Tuesday morning that it had found “around 1,500 bodies” of Hamas fighters in Israel since the attack launched Saturday morning by the Palestinian Islamist movement from the Gaza Strip.
On the fourth day of hostilities, “the army has more or less regained control of the fence on the border” with Gaza “but infiltrations can still occur”, added a military spokesperson. However, “we know that since (the beginning of) last night, no one has entered” Israel from Gaza.
06:46 Hamas attack: Washington deplores at least 11 dead
“This is not a distant tragedy”: the United States now counts at least 11 nationals killed in the Hamas attack, as well as probable hostages, and once once more reiterated its support for Israel on Monday, adding its voice to those of their European allies.
Germany, the United States, France, Italy and the United Kingdom “will support Israel’s efforts to defend itself” and condemn Hamas “unambiguously”, according to a rare joint statement published following an interview leaders of the five countries.
06:46 Netanyahu calls to form “a government of national unity”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Monday for the formation of a “national unity government”, on the third day of the major offensive launched by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which left at least 800 dead in Israel .
“I call on opposition leaders to immediately form an emergency national unity government without preconditions,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a televised address. Benjamin Netanyahu, leading a coalition of right, far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties, is facing one of the greatest crises in the country’s history.
06:44 Hamas threatens to execute Israeli hostages in response to strikes on Gaza
Hamas threatened Monday evening to execute Israeli hostages in response to increasing Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip on the third day of the massive offensive launched by the Palestinian Islamist movement, which left more than 1,600 dead on both sides. else.
This threat comes following the “total siege” imposed Monday by Israel on the Gaza Strip controlled since 2007 by Hamas. It is shelled by the Israeli army in response to the unprecedented deadly attack launched on Saturday by Hamas by land, air and sea, compared by Israel to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
06:39 More than 187,000 Palestinians displaced inside the Gaza Strip
More than 187,000 residents of the Gaza Strip have fled their homes to find safer accommodation elsewhere in the enclave, according to figures from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), an organ of ONU.
Displacement in the Gaza Strip has “intensified” over the past 24 hours, OCHA says. A total of 137,427 people have found shelter in the 83 schools managed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Some 41,000 people are also sheltered by relatives or acquaintances following their homes were damaged or even destroyed.
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