The war between Israel and Hamas entered its hundredth day on Sunday January 14 despite international calls for a truce in the conflict which has plunged the Gaza Strip into a major humanitarian crisis.
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What you must remember :
■ “ Nobody will stop us, neither The Hague, nor the “Axis of Evil”, nor anyone else », insisted Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference on Sunday in Tel Aviv, in particular with reference to South Africa’s request before the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of a genocidal act in Gaza.
■ Telecommunications have been partially restored in Gaza the day after a press release from Paltel, the main Palestinian operator, reporting an outage. Paltel did not confirm the resumption of service but said an Israeli strike killed two of its employees in Khan Yunis while they were repairing the network.
■ Fears of a regional conflagration are growing after new US strikes against the HouthisYemeni rebels supported by Iran who are increasing attacks in the Red Sea against merchant ships allegedly linked to Israel, in solidarity with the Palestinians.
■ According to a report announced this Saturday, January 13 by the Hamas Ministry of Health, 23 843 people were killed in Gaza since the start of the war on October 7. The majority of the dead are women, adolescents and children. There are over 60 000 wounded. After 99 days of war in Gaza, more than 10,000 children – i.e. 1% of the child population total of the Gaza Strip – were killed, according to a new report from Save The Children.
Information given in universal time (Paris-1),
05:30: Israel arrested the sisters of a Hamas official killed in Beirut, according to the Palestinian agency Wafa
Israeli forces arrested Dalal and Fatima Al-Arouri, the sisters of Saleh Al-Arouri, the senior Hamas official killed in Beirut on January 2, reports the Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing local sources. They were arrested during Israeli raids which took place at dawn on Sunday in the towns of Ramallah and el-Bireh, in the occupied West Bank, Wafa said.
In a video verified by Al Jazeera, the son of one of the two sisters said that Israeli forces who entered his house to arrest his mother, attacked him and vandalized the house, and confiscated photos of his uncle, Saleh Al-Arouri.
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