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Thursday October 12, 2023
12:21
SPECIAL FLIGHTS
Paris will organize “several special flights” Friday and Saturday to repatriate its nationals, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this Thursday. An initiative aimed at French people who have not been able to find available seats on commercial flights still open in Tel Aviv, said the Quai d’Orsay.
12:10
ASSESSMENT REVIEWED UPWARDS
The death toll in the Gaza Strip rose to 1,354, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
11:36
ADDRESS BY EMMANUEL MACRON
Emmanuel Macron receives all party leaders and presidents of the constitutional chambers at the Elysée this afternoon. The President of the Republic wishes to speak with them “following the terrorist acts committed in Israel”. Subsequently, he will address the French at 8 p.m.
Policy
Published today at 11:33 a.m.
11:34
THE OBJECTIVE IS THE “LIQUIDATION OF HAMAS”, ISRAEL WARNS
The objective of the Israeli army is the “liquidation” of Hamas, warned a military spokesperson. “Right now, we’re focusing on their senior leadership, not just the military leadership, but also their government officials all the way up to Yahya Sinouar,” the head of Hamas in Gaza. “They are directly involved” in Saturday’s deadly attack, underlined Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hecht.
11:33
HUMANITARIAN SITUATION “VERY QUICKLY UNMANAGEABLE”
The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip will be “very quickly unmanageable”, warned the regional head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Fabrizio Carboni.
11:28
MODERATION ON TWITTER
Accused of disinformation by the European Commission, the social network X claims to have deleted or reported “tens of thousands of content”. In a three-page letter published on behalf of the company’s general director, Linda Yaccarino, the company also claims to have “removed hundreds of accounts affiliated with Hamas on the platform.” The platform “responded to 80 requests for content removal from the EU within the set deadlines”, she further specifies, alluding to the request from Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, who had requested Elon Musk to remove content reported as illegal within 24 hours, in accordance with new European regulations.
Today @lindayaX responded to @ThierryBreton ’s letter detailing our work in response to the terrorist attack on Israel. pic.twitter.com/yZtaOVGpHG — Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) October 12, 2023
11:20
97 HOSTAGES IDENTIFIED
The Israeli army spokesperson confirmed the identity of the 97 hostages held in Gaza. According to Israeli authorities, nearly 150 people were kidnapped.
11:18
BRITISH EVACUATIONS
London will withdraw the relatives of its diplomatic staff in Israel as a “precautionary measure” and “in accordance with our advice to travelers”, declared a spokesperson for the British Foreign Office. The UK currently advises against all non-essential travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
“Our embassy and consulate remain fully staffed and continue to provide consular services to those who need assistance,” added the same source.
11:17
LAND AND ISRAEL
A minister in Netanyahu’s government was attacked as she went to the victims’ bedside at a hospital in Tzrifin, in the center of the country. “You have ruined this country. Get out of here”, for example, said a doctor against Idit Silman, Israel’s Minister of Environmental Protection.
An anger which pushed the minister to leave the premises and which reflects the growing discontent in the country, faced with the government’s inability to prevent the Hamas attack, the deadliest in history against the Jewish State.
Israel: a minister attacked in a hospitalSource: TF1 Info
11:13
NATO WANTS A “PROPORTIONATE” REACTION
If NATO member countries clearly affirm that Israel has “the right to defend itself, the reaction to “unjustifiable acts of terrorism” must be done in a “proportionate” manner. In a press release published by the Alliance, few after the resumption of work by Defense Ministers, meeting since Wednesday in Brussels, NATO members also demanded that Hamas “immediately release” all its hostages.
❝Israel does not stand alone.❞ — Secretary General @jensstoltenberg At meeting of NATO Defence Ministers, Allies condemned the horrific terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel. #DefMin — NATO (@NATO) October 12, 2023
11:07
“HORRIBLE CRIME” AND “COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT”
Several dozen independent UN experts have condemned the “horrible crimes” committed by Hamas in Israel while denouncing the response of the Jewish state described as “collective punishment” of Gaza. These human rights specialists, who are mandated by the UN, do not speak on behalf of the organization.
10:43
“LAND MANEUVER” IN GAZA
The Israeli army is preparing for a “land maneuver” in the Gaza Strip but nothing “has yet been decided”, a military spokesperson said. “We are preparing for the next stages of the war,” warned Lt. Col. Richard Hecht during an online press conference.
“It could be by air, it could be jointly from the sea and the air. We are waiting to see what our political leaders eventually decide on the ground (but) it has not been decided yet,” he added. officer, specifying to “prepare, in the event that this is decided”.
10:13
IRAN WANTS “COORDINATION” OF “MUSUMAN COUNTRIES”
The Iranian president called on “Muslim and Arab countries” to “coordinate” for this, the presidency said in a statement. “Today, all Muslim and Arab countries and all free peoples of the earth must come together and coordinate in order to stop the crimes of the Zionist regime against the oppressed Palestinian nation,” declared Ebrahim Raïssi during a call telephone to his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad late Wednesday. “On this basis, the Islamic Republic of Iran will try to establish this coordination as quickly as possible by contacting the leaders of Muslim countries,” he added.
10:12
THREE CHINESE DID
Three Chinese citizens were killed, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced. “We have confirmation that three Chinese nationals were killed during the clashes. Two are missing and several others are injured,” Wang Wenbin, a ministry spokesperson, said at a regular press briefing.
“Relevant Chinese diplomatic missions abroad are making considerable efforts to coordinate the rescue and treatment of the injured, and to make arrangements for those who died.” Chinese diplomacy, which earlier this year facilitated the spectacular rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, regularly claims to want to make its contribution to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which has been at a standstill since 2014.
10:08
WHAT IS MOSCOW’S RESPONSIBILITY?
kyiv’s military intelligence chief claims Moscow intervened in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. As proof according to him, the Palestinian Islamist movement uses drones against armored vehicles, operations similar to those deployed during the war in Ukraine. The Hamas fighters may have received Russian training, he concluded. “It’s the know-how of our war, after all. No one other than the people who passed through our theater of war could do such a thing. Since we weren’t there, that means it was the Russians who did it,” accused Kyrylo Budanov in an interview with the Ukrainian newspaper Ukrainian Pravada.
10:06
WHAT IMPACT ON THE PRICE OF OIL?
The International Energy Agency (IEA) wants to be reassuring: the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel “has not had a direct impact on oil flows” since it began on Saturday. If the markets “will remain on alert”, “the prospect” of a risk on oil supply flows remains “currently limited”, she says. Oil prices have been falling since Tuesday, after jumping more than 5% on Monday, under the effect of a “higher geopolitical risk premium”.
10:02
TESTIMONY
Without news of his daughter Noya, 13, and her mother since the Hamas assault on Saturday, Galit Dan-Jaoui fears that they have been made hostages by the organization. Convinced that they are still “alive”, this Franco-Israeli launches a vibrant appeal for help on LCI.
International
Published today at 9:45 a.m.
10:00
BANS IN GERMANY
Germany will ban on its soil activities deemed linked to Hamas, declared Olaf Scholz, targeting in particular an association whose members have expressed their support for Hamas attacks against Israel. “An association like Samidoun, whose members celebrate the most brutal terrorist acts in the streets, will be banned in Germany,” added the German chancellor.
09:58
THE FIRST FRENCH REPATRIATES
A first special Air France flight to repatriate French people will leave Tel Aviv this afternoon at 4:40 p.m. for an arrival in the evening at 8:35 p.m. at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. This flight aims to “bring back compatriots identified as the most vulnerable among French nationals passing through and residing in Israel”, specifies the French embassy in Israel, adding on its website that a second flight will take place on Friday.
09:51
AMERICAN DIPLOMACY
After his visit to Israel, Antony Blinken will fly to Jordan, according to a senior American official. The United States Secretary of State will meet Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the State of Palestine, and Abdullah II, the King of Jordan, two representatives of countries favorable to Hamas.
09:42
NOAH FOUND
On social networks, Israeli authorities indicate that today Noa Argamani celebrates his 26th birthday. She was the young woman taken hostage on Saturday, after the “Tribe of Nova” festival, which turned into horror. Since then, his family has had no news. “His parents ask us to wish him a happy birthday in the hope that these messages will reach him,” wrote the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
International
Published on October 8, 2023 at 1:44 p.m.
09:33
BLINKEN AND ISRAEL
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv for a solidarity visit following the Hamas attacks. He is due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose country is a close ally of the United States. Washington has already provided additional military aid after Saturday’s offensive.
09:27
BERLIN STRIVES TO FREE HOSTAGES
The German chancellor says he is working with “all his might” to free all the hostages, in close coordination with Israel and working with regional powers to try to prevent the violence from spreading further. “I am in close contact with Egyptian President Sisi, who visited Gaza. I will speak today with Turkish President Erdogan and receive the Emir of Qatar,” Olaf Scholz said. “In this dramatic situation, it would be irresponsible not to use all the contacts that can help,” he added before the Bundestag, defending his meeting planned for the day in Berlin with the Emir of Qatar, seen as a possible intermediary due to its financial support for Hamas.
“All three can play an important role in de-escalating the situation,” he said, before accusing Tehran. “Hamas would not have been able to attack Israel without Iranian support,” he said.
09:24
NO WATER OR FUEL WITHOUT RELEASE
Israeli authorities, who have besieged Gaza since Saturday’s offensive and ordered water and fuel supplies to be cut off, have warned they will not allow the entry of these basic necessities or aid humanitarian until the hostages are released
“Humanitarian aid to Gaza? No electrical switch will be turned on, no water tap will be opened and no fuel truck will enter until the kidnapped Israelis have returned home,” the Israeli minister declared. of Energy, Israel Katz.
09:18
A HAMAS INTOX?
Hamas announced in the evening that it had released three hostages, a woman and two children, detained after the armed incursion into Israel. A version contradicted by the Israeli media, which assures that this trio was “never taken to Gaza”.
International
Posted today at 9:03 a.m.
08:48
MACRON TALKS WITH CROWN PRINCE OF SAUDI ARABIA
The President of the Republic spoke with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed ben Salman, according to our information. From the political service of TF1/LCI, the Élysée specifies that Emmanuel Macron and Mohammed ben Salman discussed the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas in Israel and the importance, for all leaders in the region, of condemning them unequivocal. They then discussed the importance of working together to avoid any extension of the conflict in the region and to ultimately implement the conditions for lasting peace in the Middle East.
08:46
JORDAN BARDELLA
“It is clear that in this situation, we are beyond conventional acts,” declared this Thursday on LCI the president of the National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella on the subject of the ground operation in Gaza. “Israel’s response is legitimate (…) we must be as vigilant as possible with regard to civilian populations and the response must be as targeted as possible,” he added.
“The reception of these civilian populations must be done in neighboring countries and in the region,” he added about the Gazans.
08:38
JORDAN BARDELLA
“The shock wave is being felt in France because we have thousands of Hamas sympathizers on French soil,” declared this Thursday on LCI the president of the National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella. “The modus operandi that struck Israel on Saturday is a modus operandi that we know on French soil,” he continued, estimating that “the (French) government is not doing what is necessary to put the French people sheltered from this radical ideology.
“We don’t know where the money goes,” he also said about aid to Palestine, believing that “it is diverted by Hamas to fuel its Islamist propaganda. And added : “I am in favor of freezing all public funding, French or European, towards the West Bank or Hamas.”
08:16
“MORE THAN A HUNDRED ANTI-SEMITE ACTS” IN FRANCE
Since the start of the offensive by the armed wing of Hamas, “more than a hundred anti-Semitic acts” have been recorded in France, according to the Minister of the Interior. At the microphone of Franceinter, Gérald Darmanin specifies that it was “mainly tags”, but that certain “more serious acts” also took place. Among other examples, the minister cites “insults in a physical sense”, people arrested “with bladed weapons at the entrance to a school or a synagogue” or even “a drone which flew inside a ‘a courtyard of a Jewish cultural site’. In all, 24 people were arrested, he said and “more than 2000” reports were recorded by the Pharos platform.
08:05
STRIKES TO TEL-AVIV
Sirens are ringing in central Israel, the Israeli Defense Force said, although no rockets had been fired towards the Jewish state since the previous evening.
The Shehab news agency, affiliated with Hamas, claims that the group’s military branch directed missile strikes on Tel Aviv “in response to targeted civilians” in two refugee camps.
07:40
ISRAELI STRIKES
During the night from Thursday to Friday, the Israeli Air Force claimed to have targeted several Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. She claims to have struck “the operational command centers” of Hamas special forces, used by the militiamen who infiltrated the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip last Saturday.
Furthermore, the Air Force said it had shot down Muhammad Abu Shamla, “a senior naval operations official” for Hamas.
The authorities of the Gaza Strip report that Israeli aircraft notably hit the Jabalia refugee camp, in the north of the landlocked territory.
to store naval weapons designated for terror against the State of Israel. Attached is footage of the strike on Muhammad Abu Shamla: pic.twitter.com/yQg4VgbQbK — Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) October 12, 2023
07:36
CHINA IN THE ROLE OF MEDIATOR?
China would be willing to work with Egypt to promote an “immediate ceasefire and cessation of violence”, according to a statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry. In a statement, the ministry said that Zhai Jun, the Chinese government’s special envoy to the Middle East, spoke on Tuesday with a senior Egyptian official to reiterate China’s position in favor of a two-state solution as “fundamental solution” to achieve peace between Israel and Palestine.
07:30
A FAILURE OF SECURITY SERVICES?
Many officials, including the former Israeli ambassador to France, Avi Pazner, regret a “failure” of the Israeli security services, who did not see the Hamas offensive coming. Asked about these criticisms, a spokesperson for the country’s defense army, Daniel Hagari, admitted that although there had been “signs” the night before the attack, there had been no no “major warning”. Speaking to Israeli channel Channel 13, he specified that the army would investigate all events preceding the armed group’s attack.
07:17
BRAZIL CONVENES UN SECURITY COUNCIL
Brazil, which currently chairs the UN Security Council, has called a new meeting of this body for Friday. At a previous emergency meeting on October 8, Council members failed to reach consensus to unanimously condemn the Hamas attack.
07:16
BLINKEN AND ISRAEL
The American Secretary of State is expected in Israel today for a solidarity visit. “We are committed to ensuring that Israel gets everything it needs to defend itself,” Antony Blinken said before his departure. US President Joe Biden, however, asked Israel to respect “the laws of war” in its response against Gaza.
07:15
WHAT HAPPENED TONIGHT
Israel shelled the Gaza Strip again last night after vowing to “crush” and “destroy” the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. In his assessment of the day, carried out at dawn, the spokesperson for the Israeli army, Jonathan Cornicus, congratulated himself on having “hit a large number of targets”. “We are preparing for the next steps,” he warned.
On the Gaza side, there were “fewer rockets” fired toward Israel in the past 24 hours, and “that’s always a good sign,” as the IDF spokesperson noted. The bombings hit dozens of buildings, factories, mosques and stores, according to Hamas. Women, their children in their arms, were fleeing among the rubble, in devastated streets. According to Hamas, 15 Palestinians were killed in these strikes.
07:06
ISRAEL PROMISES TO “DESTROY” HAMAS
Israel again shelled the Gaza Strip last night, after vowing to “crush” and “destroy” the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, responsible for the deadliest attack in history against the Jewish state. “Every member of Hamas is a dead man,” said the Israeli Prime Minister on Wednesday during a first solemn speech with his emergency government, formed the same day with Benny Gantz, one of the main opposition leaders. “Hamas is Daesh. And we will crush it and destroy it like the world destroyed Daesh,” added Benjamin Netanyahu after describing the attack as “savagery never seen since the Shoah”.
07:01
INFLUENCE
Reacting to discussions that took place between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Iranian President Ebrahim Raïsi on the subject of the war between Israel and Hamas, Washington was keen to encourage their partners to use their influence on Hamas and its support in Iran. “Honestly, we call on all our partners to talk with Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran – with any of that trio so that they can convince Hamas to stop its attacks, to release the hostages, so that Hezbollah and Iran are not getting involved in this conflict,” a senior official said on condition of anonymity.
06:20
HAMAS HOSTAGES
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is in contact with Hamas and the Israeli authorities to work for the release of hostages kidnapped in Israel by the Islamist movement this weekend, according to a press release. The ICRC also implores “both sides to reduce the suffering of civilians.” “As a neutral intermediary, we are ready to carry out humanitarian visits; facilitate communication between the hostages and their family members; and to facilitate any possible release”, underlined in this text Fabrizio Carboni, the regional director of the ICRC for the Near and Middle East region.
Dozens of Israelis and foreigners, soldiers, civilians, children and women, are believed to be in the hands of Hamas in the Gaza Strip since its offensive in Israel. Israeli authorities identify 150 hostages, while hundreds of people are still missing and bodies are still being identified.
Hostage-taking is prohibited by international humanitarian law and any detained person must be immediately released, Fabrizio Carboni also recalled.
06:14
SPEAKS BY THE HEAD OF STATE
Emmanuel Macron will take stock this Thursday at 8 p.m. He will speak in search of “unity of the Nation” in the face of political divisions and the risks of importing the conflict into France.
With this speech, the Head of State, accompanied by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, invited at noon to the Élysée the leaders of the 11 parties represented in Parliament, as well as the presidents of the Senate, the National Assembly and the Economic, social and environmental council. The agenda is the situation “following the terrorist acts committed in Israel.”
International06:13
GAZA
More than 338,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, which is under siege and shelled by the Israeli army. The number of displaced people at the end of the day Wednesday “increased by an additional 75,000 people and reached 338,934”, indicated the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) in a press release published this Thursday.
More than 338,000 displaced in Gaza, according to the UNSource: TF1 Info
05:54
REVIEW IN GAZA
The death toll in the Gaza Strip rose to 1,200 and around 5,600 injured, according to a statement by the spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health. In Israel, more than 1,200 people were killed, most of them civilians, according to the Israeli army spokesperson.
05:52
WELCOME
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