While the Israeli army resumed its bombings on the Gaza Strip on March 18, after almost two months of truce, Hamas said on Wednesday, March 26 that the Israeli hostages it still has could be killed in these strikes. Since the resumption of Israeli military operations, 830 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip, according to a report by the Ministry of Health of the Hamas Government published on Wednesday.
Tuesday evening, a demonstration for peace gathered several hundred Palestinians in Beit Lahia, in the north of the Gaza Strip. “Hamas outside”, “Hamas terrorist”, have chanted some.
Info to remember
⇒ Hamas warns that Israeli bombings could kill hostages
⇒ Benyamin Netanyahou threatens to further intensify “pressure”
⇒ Syria condemns Israeli shots on its territory
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Benyamin Netanyahu threatens to further intensify “pressure” if the hostages are not released
The Israeli Prime Minister threatened on Wednesday to further intensify the pressure on the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli army resumed its military offensive on March 18, if Hamas persists “in its refusal to release the hostages”. “The more Hamas will persist in its refusal to release our hostages, the more powerful the pressure we will exert,” Benyamin Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem. “I say it […] In Hamas: this includes taking territories, as well as other measures that I will not detail here, “he added.
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Hamas warns that Israeli bombing on Gaza could kill hostages
Hamas said on Wednesday that the Israeli hostages it retains in Gaza could be killed if Israel was trying to release them by force and if the strikes on Palestinian territory were continuing.
The Palestinian Islamist movement said in a statement that it was “all its possible to maintain the captives alive, but the Zionist (Israeli, editor’s note) bombing their lives in danger”. “Whenever the occupation (Israeli, editor’s note) tries to recover her captives by force, she ends up bringing them back to coffins,” he added.
Of the 251 hostages removed during the attack on October 7, 2023, 58 are still retained in the Gaza Strip, 34 of which died, according to the Israeli army.
07:30
The Houthis report 17 American strikes on Yemen
A Houthi media reported on 17 new strikes on the regions of Saada and Amra, in northwest Yemen on Wednesday, attributing them to American forces. On their Ansarollah site, the Houthis announced that American war planes had led “aggressive raids […] causing material damage “, but they did not give details on possible victims.
On March 15, Washington announced a new military offensive against the Houthis, supported by Iran, promising to hit them until the rebels stop attacking ships using the maritime roads of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
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Syria condemns deadly Israeli shots on its territory
Syria condemned Tuesday as a “blatant violation” of its sovereignty the deadly bombing led by Israel on the south of its territory. The Israeli army said that “terrorists had opened fire towards the positions of its soldiers from southern Syria”. “The soldiers retaliated and the air force struck the terrorists,” she added.
In a statement, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs “condemned the Israeli aggression continues against Syrian territory”, in particular “the dangerous escalation” which, according to him, killed “six civilians” in the west of the eponymous capital of the province of Deraa. He denounced “a blatant violation of national sovereignty”.
Jordan, a border of southern Syria, condemned “firmly” on Tuesday “the foray and the Israeli bombing in the province of Deraa. Saudi Arabia also denounced the strikes on Wednesday, accusing Israel of undergoing “the security and stability of Syria and the region with blatant and repeated violations of international law”.
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Israel frees an Oscar -winning Palestinian director arrested in the West Bank
Israeli police released the Palestinian Hamdan Ballal, co -operator of the documentary “No Other Land” Oscarized this year on Tuesday, arrested the day before having been the target of an attack on the occupied West Bank on activists. “It was a violent attack and the goal was to kill,” the director told AFPTV. “After winning the Oscar, I did not expect to be exposed to such attacks.”
Basel Adra, who worked with Hamdan Ballal on “No Other Land”, published on X a photo of the latter after his release, his eyes closed and the T-shirt stained with blood. “Hamdan has been released and is currently being treated in a hospital in Hebron. He was beaten everywhere on his body by soldiers and settlers,” he wrote, saying that “the soldiers had kept his blindfolded eyes and his handcuffed hands all night”.
The Israeli army had indicated earlier that three Palestinians had been apprehended on Monday for having “launched stones” during a “violent confrontation” between Israelis and Palestinians in the village of Soussia, in the south of the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. A police spokesman had confirmed to AFP The announcement of the director’s release and two other Palestinians. “The three men were transferred by the army to the Israeli police for investigation into suspicions of stones, material damage and endangering security,” before being released on deposit and prohibited from contacting the other people involved in the violence, according to a police statement.