Two days after the surprise dismissal of his predecessor, the new Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz was sworn in on the night of Thursday to Friday in front of Parliament. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday, after differences over the conduct of the war in Gaza, and replaced him with his Foreign Affairs counterpart Israel Katz who promised to defeat the “enemies ” of the country.
Gideon Saar, current minister without portfolio, succeeds Israel Katz as head of diplomacy. Israel Katz’s last day at Foreign Affairs was punctuated by a diplomatic incident with France, when French gendarmes were briefly arrested by Israeli police at a site that the head of French diplomacy Jean-Noël was to visit in Jerusalem Beam.
Information to remember:
⇒ The Israeli army bans all its personnel from traveling to the Netherlands
⇒ Iran must avoid reacting “instinctively” after Israel’s attack
⇒ Women and children accounted for 70% of deaths in Gaza between November 2023 and April 2024
Violence in Amsterdam: the Israeli army bans all its personnel from traveling to the Netherlands
The Israeli army has banned all its personnel from traveling to the Netherlands following the violence which targeted Israeli supporters Thursday evening in Amsterdam on the sidelines of the Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel-Aviv, she announced Friday. “After an assessment of the situation, the military is prohibiting all serving personnel from traveling to the Netherlands until further notice,” it said in a statement.
Dutch police reported this Friday morning that five people were hospitalized and 62 arrests after the clashes that broke out after the meeting. Benyamin Netanyahu denounced a “premeditated anti-Semitic attack”, which aroused strong emotion in the international community.
Lebanon: national agency says Israel dynamited houses in three border villages
The Lebanese National News Agency (Ani) claimed that the Israeli army blew up houses on Friday in three villages in southern Lebanon, where Israel has been carrying out a ground offensive since September 30 against Hezbollah. “Since this morning, the Israeli enemy army has carried out detonations inside the villages of Yaroun, Aïtaroun and Maroun al-Ras, in the region of Bint Jbeil, aimed at destroying the residential houses that found there,” said the Ani.
Lebanese Hezbollah claims second attack in 24 hours on Israeli naval base
Hezbollah announced on Friday that it had fired missiles at an Israeli naval base near Haifa, in northern Israel, the second attack of this type in less than 24 hours. It is a “response to the attacks and massacres committed by the Israeli enemy” in Lebanon, the Lebanese movement declared in a statement, specifying that it had targeted the Stella Maris naval base, northwest of Haifa.
The pro-Iranian movement claimed Thursday to have attacked the same naval base with rockets, for the same reasons. In a separate statement, Hezbollah also indicated that it had targeted the Ramat David air base, located about 45 kilometers from the Israeli-Lebanese border, with missiles on Friday.
Women and children account for most deaths in Gaza, UN says
Women and children represented “nearly 70%” of deaths in the Gaza Strip over the period November 2023 to April 2024, the UN said this Friday after a careful verification of a partial count of victims of the war waged. by Israel against Hamas.
The UN Human Rights Office verified 8,119 of the more than 34,500 people believed to have been killed in the first six months of the war, finding that “nearly 70 percent were children and women”. “We think this is representative of the distribution of the total number of deaths. A proportion similar to that given by the Gaza authorities,” Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the High Commission, told AFP.
The new report from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also detailed a wide range of violations of international law, which for many could amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly even be a “genocide”.
Iran must avoid reacting “instinctively” after Israel attack
An adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said the Islamic Republic must avoid reacting “instinctively” against Israel after the October 26 strikes against Iran, so as to “not fall into the trap” stretched by Israel. “Israel seeks to bring the conflict to Iran, we must act wisely so as not to fall into its trap and not react instinctively,” Ali Larijani said Thursday evening during an interview with state television. “Our actions and reactions are strategically defined, so we must avoid instinctive or emotional responses and remain entirely rational,” added Ali Larijani.
Sworn enemy of Tehran, Israel is at war against Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, two movements allied with Iran. On October 26, Israeli warplanes carried out strikes on military sites in Iran, in retaliation for Iranian missile launches against Israel on October 1.