2023-10-16 10:07:36
Cover image: An Israeli soldier walks past images of Israeli hostages, displayed on a wall outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, October 16, 2023. AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP
The Middle East is “on the edge of the abyss”warned the UN Secretary General. “Gaza lacks water, electricity and other essential supplies”, Antonio Guterres said in a statement. He also asked Hamas to release the hostages ” immediately “ et « sans conditions ».Israel will launch “major military operations” once the civilians left, according to the IDF. “It’s really important that the people of Gaza know that we have been very, very generous with the timedeclared Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus on CNN on the night of Saturday to Sunday. We have given enough warning, more than twenty-five hours… I cannot stress enough that it is now time for the Gazans to leave. »Environ a million people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip by war, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said. “This figure is likely to rise as people continue to leave their homes”, specified the UNRWA communications director. Israel’s evacuation order concerns 1.1 million residents in the north of the enclave. Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz confirmed on Sunday the restoration of water distribution in the south of the Gaza Strip, following seven days of shutdown ordered in retaliation for the Hamas attack on Israeli soil. This decision, ” approved by the Prime Minister [Benyamin] Netanyahu and the president [américain, Joe] Biden will push the civilian population towards the south of the strip”estimated Mr. Katz.Expelling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip is an idea ” doomed to fail “according to Antony Blinken. The American Secretary of State, on a crisis tour in the Middle East, categorically rejected this option. “We think people should be able to stay in Gaza, their home”, he said in an interview with Saudi television channel Al-Arabiya broadcast on Sunday.Joe Biden believes that an Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip “would be a serious mistake.” In an interview with the weekly show “60 Minutes” broadcast on Sunday evening, the American president estimated ” necessary “ Israel’s elimination of “extremists” of Hamas, while promoting “a path to a Palestinian state”. “We have no interest in occupying Gaza or staying in Gaza”the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations later saidGilad Erdan, to CNN. Sunday was punctuated by exchanges of fire between Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and the Israeli army. At least one person was killed and several others were injured. Hezbollah announced in the followingnoon that it had hit three targets in Israel, leading to Israeli fire. The peacekeepers’ building in southern Lebanon was hit by a rocket, without causing any casualties, said the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.The Israeli Air Force continues to relentlessly bomb targets in the Gaza Strip, while Hamas fighters continued to fire rockets towards Israel, Sunday. The Israeli army carried out dozens of strikes once morest the neighborhoods of Tal Al-Hawa and Sheikh Radwan, as well as air raids once morest buildings in Khan Younes, Rafah and the Nuseirat camp, according to the Gazan interior ministry. .At least 1,400 people, mostly civilians, killed in Israel since the attack, launched a week ago, on the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army confirmed on Sunday the presence of at least 155 people held hostage in Gaza by Hamas. The number of deaths in the enclave controlled by Hamas rose to 2,670, according to a latest report from local authorities on Sunday evening.The toll of French nationals killed in Hamas attacks once morest Israel has risen further, reaching nineteen dead and thirteen missing.the French foreign minister reported on Sunday at the end of her visit to Israel, where she met political leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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