Hamas: Israeli troops are “in the heart of Gaza City” – L’Express

“We will destroy Hamas […] Our forces are ready on all fronts,” he said at a news conference in Tel Aviv, adding that “Gaza is the largest terrorist base ever built.” “There will be no humanitarian truce without the return of the hostages.”

More than 100 “French nationals, agents and beneficiaries” were able to leave the Gaza Strip via the Rafah border post with Egypt, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday.

“Two groups of French nationals, agents and rights holders were able to leave” Monday and Tuesday the territory subject to incessant Israeli bombardments and “are safe in Egypt,” the statement said. “This brings the total number of outings organized by France to more than 100 people.”

He also affirmed during this interview that Israel will take “for an indefinite period, overall responsibility for security” in the Palestinian territory after the war, in order to prevent “the eruption of Hamas terror” once again.

Previously, Osama Hamdane, a senior official of the Palestinian Islamist movement in Lebanon, had affirmed that Hamas would remain in Gaza and would not accept “a Vichy government” in this territory which it has controlled since 2007. The most serious ground clashes Intense events are taking place in the now surrounded Gaza City, which according to Israel is home to the “center” of Hamas. The army also claimed to have cut the territory in two, between north and south. At least 30 Israeli soldiers, according to the army, have been killed since October 27.

According to the Hamas Ministry of Health published on Monday, Israeli bombings against the Palestinian territory have left 10,328 dead since October 7, mostly civilians including more than 4,000 children, a toll that no independent source has confirmed. able to verify.

On Monday, the UN once again castigated the Palestinian movement which uses “civilians as human shields and continues to fire rockets towards Israel indiscriminately”. In Israel, more than 1,400 people died in Israel according to the authorities, mainly civilians killed on October 7 during the Hamas attack, the deadliest in the country’s history. 240 people are still held hostage.

Hamas announced that it had fired 16 rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, claiming to have targeted southern Haifa, “in response” to Israeli bombings in Gaza. In a statement, the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades affirmed that these shots came “in response to the massacres of the occupation and its aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip”. The Israeli army reported “around 30 shots” of projectiles “from Lebanon towards northern Israel”, adding that it responded to the locations of origin of the shots. In the evening, the official Lebanese agency Ani reported Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire on southern Lebanon.

The United States on Monday called a junior Israeli minister’s suggestion to drop an atomic bomb on Gaza “unacceptable” and urged all sides in the conflict to avoid “hateful rhetoric.” The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday suspended far-right minister Amichay Eliyahu from “all government meetings” until further notice. During an interview with Israeli radio Kol Barama, the minister replied “it’s an option” to a journalist who asked him if he recommended dropping “a kind of nuclear bomb” on Gaza to “kill all the world”.

While the international community still fears an extension of the conflict, the American Department of Defense announced that a submarine had been deployed in the Middle East as a deterrent. This “Ohio” class submarine can carry up to 154 Tomahawk missiles with a range of 1,500 kilometers and 20 ballistic missiles with a range of 6,000 kilometers. Tension is high, particularly in the West Bank where more than 150 Palestinians have been killed by fire from Israeli soldiers or settlers in one month.

A few hundred progressive American Jewish activists peacefully occupied the Statue of Liberty in New York on Monday to demand a cease-fire from Israel and an end to the “genocidal bombing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”

Dressed in black t-shirts emblazoned with the slogans “Jews demand a ceasefire now” or “not in our name”, they displayed banners “the whole world is watching” and “Palestinians should be free” at their feet. of the base of the emblematic monument symbol of New York.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday evening called on his G7 peers, who are meeting in Tokyo, to “speak with one clear voice” on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The heads of G7 diplomacy meet Tuesday and Wednesday in Tokyo where they will strive to find a common line on the Israel-Hamas conflict, while reaffirming their support for Ukraine and discussing other issues in the Caucasus. to Asia-Pacific. But the Group of Seven may struggle to speak with one voice when it comes to calls for a ceasefire or humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip. The United Nations Security Council itself cannot do this at the moment and Israel is opposed to it.

Two new complaints have been filed in France with the anti-terrorism justice system, including one for crimes against humanity. Lawyers Ilana Soskin and Yaël Scemama announced in a press release that they had filed a complaint Monday afternoon in Paris on behalf of two French people whose three family members were “assassinated” on October 7 “by Hamas terrorists” in the kibbutz. Beeri, while “five” other members “are being held hostage in Gaza, including two very young children aged 3 and 8.” The complaint for crimes against humanity “targets Hamas and its leaders”, while Kibbutz Beeri was “the scene of the worst atrocities” and even “pogroms”, according to the lawyers.