Iran has still not mentioned retaliation after the Israeli attack on its military sites on Saturday, but called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday. In Gaza, Hamas says it is open to a ceasefire agreement and places responsibility on the Jewish state.
The essentials
- Israeli strikes continue to be sent to southern Lebanon and have left more than twenty dead, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
- Attacks perpetrated by Israel also affected Iran, more specifically military sites, during the day of Saturday October 26. Iran’s supreme leader said the strikes should be “neither exaggerated nor minimized”, but did not call for retaliation even as he spoke of “the right and duty to defend oneself against acts of ‘foreign aggression’. However, he requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, which must take place this Monday, October 28 at 8 p.m. (French time).
- Both Israel and Hamas discussed resuming negotiations for a ceasefire in Daho, Qatar, and the Egyptian president proposed a two-day truce to allow the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
- A senior Hamas official, Husam Badran, indicated in a statement published by the pro-Hamas Shehab news agency that an agreement was possible shifting responsibility for the success or failure of the negotiations to Benjamin Netanyahu: “Our demands are clear and known, and an agreement can be reached, provided that Netanyahu remains committed to what has already been agreed.”
Latest updates
08:35 – The UN Security Council meets urgently this Monday
After the Israeli attack on its military sites, Iran reacted without calling for retaliation but by requesting an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. A request accepted and which led to a meeting of members of the UN council this Monday at 3 p.m. in New York, or at 8 p.m. in Paris. Iran’s demand that the UN condemn Israeli strikes was supported by Algeria, China and Russia.
10/27/24 – 5:25 p.m. – An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday
This was a request from Iran: the UN Security Council will meet urgently on Monday, from 3 p.m. Demand is also supported by Algeria, China and Russia. The head of Iranian diplomacy asks the UN to condemn Saturday’s Israeli bombings against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
10/27/24 – 4:53 p.m. – Benjamin Netanyahu interrupted during October 7 commemorations
While giving a speech this Sunday in tribute to the victims of the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu was interrupted. One person shouted “my father has been killed”. The protesters were evacuated.
10/27/24 – 4:01 p.m. – Hamas hails “heroic operation” over truck that hit bus station
In a statement, Hamas hailed a “heroic operation”, carried out according to it “near the Mossad headquarters”. The truck which hit a bus station left one dead and around thirty injured. The driver was “neutralized”, according to the police. An investigation is underway to determine whether this was a “terrorist attack”.
10/27/24 – 3:32 p.m. – Iran could respond to Israeli attack
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in a letter to Antonio Guterres that he reserved the right to respond to Israel’s “criminal aggression.” Iran has requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
27/10/24 – 2:37 p.m. – The UN Secretary General says he is “shocked by the atrocious number of deaths” in northern Gaza
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is “shocked by the horrific number of deaths, injuries and destruction in the north” of the Gaza Strip. “The plight of Palestinian civilians trapped in the northern Gaza Strip is unbearable,” he wrote in a statement.
42,718. This is the number of deaths in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas terrorist offensive on October 7, 2023 in Israel. A figure communicated by the Ministry of Health of the Hamas government on Monday October 14, 2024 and which reveals the intensity of the fighting which has lasted for more than a year now. Over the months, tensions intensified, and as of October 27, 2023, Israel extended its ground operation to Gaza. The objective for Netanyahu and the IDF is clear: to “annihilate” Hamas. A one-week ceasefire nevertheless took place in November 2023. After a significant leap forward, on April 13, 2024, Iran launched its first massive attack on Israel. Hamas ally, Iran then fired nearly 350 explosive drones and missiles at the Jewish state. An attack in response to missiles fired at the embassy in Damascus, Syria on April 1, in which 11 people lost their lives, including seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Tuesday September 17, 2024, a new kind of attack broke into the war. Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies explode. Twelve deaths and nearly 3,000 injured have been recorded in Lebanon. Since its coordinated explosions, Israel has continued to strike Lebanon with air or ground raids. More than 1,000 people are killed in IDF strikes and thousands of Lebanese are forced to be displaced. On October 1, 2024, Iran responded by sending nearly 200 ballistic missiles directly to Israel. Since then, the two countries have been waging a merciless war. On October 8, 2024, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, threatened Lebanon with “destruction and suffering like those we see in Gaza” if the population of the country does not ” “liberated” not from Hezbollah. Comments described as “provocation” by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot.
Monday October 14, 2024, Lebanese Hezbollah threatened Israel with new attacks in a press release. As a reminder, Hezbollah had struck Haifa two days earlier, killing four Israeli soldiers and injuring no fewer than 60. At the start of the week, the terrorist organization indicated that “the resistance (…) promises the enemy”. The raid carried out “south of Haifa is only a foretaste of what awaits him if he decides to continue his attacks against our people”, she threatens. According to Palestinian doctors cited by Associated Press, the courtyard of a hospital in the Gaza Strip was then bombed by the Israeli army, killing at least four people and causing a fire in a camp for displaced people.