Israel-Hamas war: Macron calls out Netanyahu on “too many civilian casualties” in Gaza – L’Express

⇒ Emmanuel Macron calls on Benyamin Netanyahu

⇒ China calls for an end to “humanitarian catastrophe”

⇒ IDF discovered 55-meter tunnel under al-Chifa hospital

Emmanuel Macron expressed concern to Benyamin Netanyahu about “too many civilian casualties” in Gaza, reminding him of the “absolute need to distinguish terrorists from the population”, the Elysée announced on Sunday. On the situation in the West Bank, the Head of State expressed “his great concern regarding the increase in violence against Palestinian civilians”, calling for “do everything to prevent the spread of this violence and maintain calm”.

The French president also spoke with the president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, with whom he “condemned the violence” committed “against Palestinian civilians” in the West Bank, said the Elysée on the 44th day of the war between Israel and Hamas. Emmanuel Macron also reminded Mahmoud Abbas of “the need for the Palestinian Authority and all countries in the region to unequivocally and with the greatest firmness condemn the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas in Israel on October 7.”

A little earlier this Sunday, France announced that it was going to mobilize its Dixmude helicopter carrier for hospital support, and Emmanuel Macron declared on X (ex-Twitter) that injured children from Gaza can be treated in France “if This is useful and necessary.”

The international community must act urgently to end the “humanitarian catastrophe” unfolding in Gaza, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told diplomats from Arab and Muslim-majority countries on Monday. “Let us work together to quickly calm the situation in Gaza and restore peace to the Middle East as soon as possible,” the minister said during his opening speech in Beijing, in front of senior diplomats from the delegation present in the Chinese capital, including the foreign ministers of the Palestinian Authority, Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

Israeli forces “expanded” their operations against Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip again on Monday against a backdrop of talks aimed at freeing hostages in the hands of the Islamist movement in exchange for a truce in the fighting. Violent fighting took place on Sunday in the center of Gaza City with Israeli tank fire responding to rocket launchers from Palestinian fighters, and airstrikes intensified in the evening.

An AFP journalist on site heard a succession of close aerial bombardments and saw columns of smoke rising above the Jabaliya refugee camp. According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, 41 members of the same family died in an Israeli strike on their house in Jabaliya. An assessment that no independent source is able to verify. The Palestinian Wafa agency reported a strike during the night on the Indonesian hospital, north of Gaza city, while Hamas reported bombardments by Israeli tanks.

The Israeli army said it was continuing to “expand its operations in new areas of the Gaza Strip”, particularly in the Jabaliya sector. Five soldiers were killed, bringing to 64 the number of soldiers killed in Gaza since the start of the war, the army said.

The Israeli army released images on Sunday evening presented as coming from the surveillance cameras of the al-Chifa hospital in Gaza and showing hostages being brought into the premises of the establishment on October 7. “These findings prove that the Hamas terrorist organization used the al-Chifa hospital complex as a terrorist infrastructure on the day of the massacre,” the army and Shin Beth, the Israeli internal security service, said in a statement. These images, the authenticity of which Agence France-Presse explains was not immediately possible, appear to be dated October 7, 2023.

The Israeli army said on Sunday that it had discovered a 55 meter long tunnel used according to it “for terrorism” under the al-Chifa hospital in Gaza, which it has been searching since Wednesday to find a Palestinian Hamas military base. This tunnel would be ten meters deep, the army said, while dozens of patients are still in this hospital complex, the largest in the Gaza Strip, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). .