Israel still refuses to give in to increasingly pressing calls for a humanitarian truce. The spokesperson for the Israeli army, Jonathan Conricus, called on civilians to leave northern Gaza on Monday, November 6, saying: “We will be less limited” to act.
“We will then be able to dismantle Hamas, stronghold by stronghold, battalion by battalion, until we achieve the ultimate goal, which is to rid the Gaza Strip – the entire Gaza Strip – of Hamas.” he said in his morning briefing.
The toll of French victims killed in attacks by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has risen again with 40 deaths recorded and eight missing, including hostages, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced on Monday.
Israeli soldier seriously injured
An Israeli soldier was seriously injured Monday in a stabbing attack outside a police station in east Jerusalem, near the Damascus Gate and the assailant was “neutralized,” Israeli police announced.
“Significant” strikes in the Gaza Strip
The Israeli army announced on Sunday, November 5, a campaign of “significant” strikes in the Gaza Strip, which it has cut in two. The army has been constantly shelling the small territory where 2.4 million inhabitants live in a catastrophic humanitarian situation since October 7, and has been carrying out ground operations there since October 27 against Hamas fighters entrenched in a network of tunnels. .
“Significant strikes are now underway” in the Gaza Strip, where internet and telephone lines were cut shortly before, and “they will continue tonight and in the days to come,” the spokesperson said on Sunday evening. of the army, Daniel Hagari.
The Hamas government said Israel was carrying out “intense bombing” around several hospitals, including al-Chifa hospital, the largest in Gaza. The Israeli army again accused, Monday on X (formerly Twitter), Hamas of building tunnels under hospitals, schools and places of worship to hide fighters and plan attacks, an accusation that the organization Palestinian Islamist has repeatedly denied this.
Young Palestinian icon Ahed Tamimi arrested
The Israeli army announced this Monday the arrest during a raid in the occupied West Bank of 22-year-old activist Ahed Tamimi, icon of the Palestinian cause around the world.
“Ahed Tamimi was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence and terrorist activities in the town of Nabi Saleh. Ahed Tamimi was transferred to Israeli security forces for further questioning,” said a spokesperson for the army to the AFP.
Jordanian aid drop on Gaza was done “in coordination” with Israel
The airdrop of medical aid to the Gaza Strip, announced overnight by Jordan, a first in the war between Israel and Hamas, was done “in coordination” with the Israeli army, said Monday morning an Israeli military spokesperson told AFP.
Israeli army accuses Hamas of shooting from Gaza hospitals
The Israeli army on Sunday released images showing what it said were Hamas operatives firing from a hospital in Gaza and others exposing the existence of a missile launch site located 75 meters from a hospital under which are Hamas tunnels.
The Israeli army is regularly accused, notably by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN since it entered the war against Hamas, for its bombings on or near health infrastructures. of the Gaza Strip where there are many civilians, including displaced people who find refuge there.
Antony Blinken in Türkiye to try to appease Ankara’s anger
American Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Turkey this Monday to try to appease the anger of one of Washington’s most strategic but most difficult allies, in the midst of the war in Gaza.
This first visit by Antony Blinken to Turkey since Israel went to war against Hamas comes as anger against Israel and the West is heard in the streets of Turkey and in the palace of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkish police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of protesters who gathered Sunday outside an air base housing U.S. forces in southeastern Turkey.
The United States “encourages” Israel to “kill”, according to the Iranian president
Iranian President Ebrahim Raïssi on Monday accused the United States of “encouraging” Israel to “kill and perpetrate cruel acts” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Receiving Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Chia al-Soudani in Tehran, Ebrahim Raïssi once again called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza.
More than 1,000 anti-Semitic acts in France since October 7, according to Darmanin
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Sunday that 1,040 anti-Semitic acts had been committed in France and that 486 people had been arrested since October 7, the start of the war between Hamas and Israel. “The number of anti-Semitic acts has exploded,” declared the minister, interviewed on France 2 news. Among the 486 arrested, “102” are foreigners, he added.
Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez, for his part, indicated on Sunday that there had been 257 anti-Semitic acts in the Paris metropolitan area and 90 arrests. There is “no typical profile”, added the police prefect. “We find all the profiles, young kids, who say very serious things”, but also “people more anchored in the defense of the pro-Palestinian cause and who slip up”, he said.