Hamas: White House national security adviser expected in Jerusalem – L’Express

⇒ 115 Israeli soldiers killed since the start of the offensive

⇒ Israel said on Wednesday it was “determined” to wage its war against Hamas “until the end”

⇒ White House security adviser expected in Jerusalem Thursday and Friday

Determined to carry out its war against Hamas “to the end”, Israel is increasing air raids in the Gaza Strip on Thursday despite signs of impatience from its American ally who is sending its national security adviser to Jerusalem. “Without stopping the strikes in Gaza, Israel must find a way to reduce the intensity of the strikes,” suggested Jack Sullivan, White House security adviser expected Thursday and Friday in Jerusalem for talks with Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. “It simply means that we have to move towards a different phase from the type of high intensity that we know today,” he declared this week during a forum organized by the Wall Street Journal.

Israel recognizes that the taking and dissemination of images of dozens of Palestinians in underwear in the Gaza Strip was inappropriate and is committed to abandoning the practice, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller. Israeli television channels broadcast videos last week showing dozens of Palestinians in their underwear, blindfolded, under the guard of Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip, provoking heated controversy on social networks and concern in many capitals.

“They (the Israelis) made it clear to us that these photos should not have been taken, they should not have been released, and they made it clear that in the future this would no longer be their practice, and that if they searched detainees, they would immediately return their clothes,” said Matthew Miller during his daily press briefing.

The Israeli army announced on Wednesday the death of 115 soldiers in the Gaza Strip since the start of the offensive against Hamas, including 10 killed on Tuesday, the highest death toll in a single day on the Israeli side. These ten soldiers, including two senior officers, died during the fighting in the north of this Palestinian territory on Tuesday in the battle of Chajaya, she said. This is the deadliest day for the Israeli army since the start of its ground operations on October 27 in the Gaza Strip. According to an Israeli army official, around 350 Hamas fighters have been killed in Chajaya since the ground offensive began.

Israel said on Wednesday it was determined to carry out its war against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza “to the end”, despite international pressure and signs of impatience from the American ally in the face of the scale of the death toll. Palestinian civilian victims. Hamas leader Ismaïl Haniyeh, based in Qatar, considered it “illusory” to imagine the post-war without his movement and other Palestinian “resistance” groups, and said he was ready for discussions on “a political path that will ensure the right of the Palestinians to an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.”

In 2023, 45 journalists worldwide were killed while doing their job, compared to 61 last year. A figure at the lowest since 2002 despite the “tragedy” of the Israel-Hamas war, where at least 17 lost their lives, including 13 in Gaza, according to RSF’s annual report published Thursday. “This in no way reduces the tragedy in Gaza but we are observing a regular decline, far from the more than 140 journalists killed in 2012, then in 2013”, mainly due to the wars in Syria and Iraq, explains to AFP the secretary general of RSF, Christophe Deloire.