While the Israeli army indicated on Monday that it continues to advance “methodically” in the Gaza Strip, after the entry of its troops onto Palestinian soil on Friday, October 28, the IDF also announced that it had bombed southern Lebanon on Tuesday. October 31.
In a message published on “Fighter planes recently attacked the infrastructure of the terrorist organization Hezbollah on the territory of Lebanon,” the IDF said.
“Among the infrastructure attacked, weapons, positions and sites used by the organization were destroyed,” the statement also added. A new stage in the regionalization of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, after the terrorist attack of the Islamist movement on Israeli soil on October 7.
Palestinian Red Crescent denounces strikes near hospital in Gaza
The Palestinian Red Crescent was alarmed on Tuesday by strikes near one of its hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip, where civilians took refuge to protect themselves from Israeli bombings.
The humanitarian organization reported “Continued artillery and air strikes in the Tel al-Hawa area of Gaza where the al-Quds hospital is located,” in a message published Tuesday on the social network X.
“The building is shaking and the displaced civilians and the teams at work are in fear and panic,” she added. The Red Crescent had already reported bombings in this area on Sunday evening. After several calls from humanitarian organizations to stem the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory, the Israeli Prime Minister on Monday ruled out any ceasefire in the conflict.
UN warns of aid system in Gaza ‘doomed to failure’
The current system of aid to the Gaza Strip via the Rafah border crossing is “doomed to failure”, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warned on Monday, denouncing the “collective punishment” imposed by Israel.
“Let’s be clear: the handful of convoys authorized via Rafah are nothing compared to the needs of more than 2 million people trapped in Gaza,” launched Philippe Lazzarini, calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire that has become a question of life or death for millions of people.
“The system in place to allow aid into Gaza is doomed to failure unless there is political will for the flow of aid to be significant, commensurate with the unprecedented humanitarian needs,” he said. he added before the UN Security Council, having failed to take a position on the conflict since October 7.
Franco-Israeli families in Paris to make their voices heard
Around ten families of Franco-Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian organization Hamas arrived Monday evening in Paris to “make themselves heard”, noted an AFP journalist.
They were welcomed at Roissy airport by around twenty people who held up portraits of hostages. “We want the international community to put pressure on Hamas to release all the hostages,” said Adva Adar, whose grandmother was kidnapped. These Franco-Israeli families will go to the Israeli embassy in Paris on Tuesday and will meet several elected officials.
US calls assault on Dagestan airport a ‘pogrom’
The storming of an airport in the predominantly Muslim Russian republic of Dagestan on Sunday by a crowd of men hostile to Israel is comparable to a “pogrom”, the White House ruled on Monday.
Videos, broadcast on social networks and in Russian media on Sunday, showed men checking cars, checking the identity of a passenger, forcing doors into the terminal and gathering at the foot of a plane on the tarmac.
“Some will compare this to the pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and I think that is probably an apt description, given the video that is circulating,” said the spokesperson for the National Security Council of John Kirby White House, in reference to the frequent murderous attacks against Jews that took place at this time in history in the Russian Empire.
Washington is also not in favor of a ceasefire
After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal a few hours earlier to consider a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, a White House spokesperson ruled Monday evening that it was “not the correct answer for now.”
Washington estimated that the Palestinian Islamist group “would be the only ones to benefit.” The American executive, on the other hand, is in favor of “temporary and localized humanitarian pauses to allow aid [humanitaire] to reach certain specific populations and perhaps even to help with the evacuation of people who want to leave” the enclave from the south, added John Kirby, spokesperson for the National Security Council.