Israel officially informed the UN on Monday, November 4, of the cancellation of the agreement with the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), voted by the Israeli Parliament. Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, the UN agency has become the bane of Israel, which accuses it of being infiltrated by the terrorist movement Hamas. The UN Security Council condemned the measure passed by the Israeli Parliament earlier in the week.
At the same time, the war is still raging in the Gaza Strip, where thirty Palestinians lost their lives in Israeli raids on Sunday. The IDF also bombed southern and eastern Lebanon, where Israel is leading an offensive against Hezbollah, an Islamist movement allied with Iran. The latter claimed responsibility for an attack on a military base in the Israeli city of Haifa.
Information to remember
⇒ Israel officially informed the UN of the cancellation of its agreement with UNRWA
⇒ Hezbollah claims missile fire on Israeli base in Haifa
⇒ Thirty people killed in Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip
09:20
Hezbollah says it launched a salvo of rockets on Safed, in northern Israel
Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it had launched “a large salvo of rockets” on the town of Safed, in northern Israel, this Monday morning. The pro-Iranian movement has been in open war since the end of September against Israel, which killed its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and is carrying out intensive airstrikes and a ground offensive against Lebanon.
Yesterday evening, Hezbollah had already said it had fired missiles at a military base in Haifa, the main city in northern Israel where sirens sounded. In a statement, the pro-Iranian formation indicated that its fighters had targeted “for the first time, the technical base of Haifa, affiliated with the Israeli Air Force (…) with a salvo of missiles”. The group, which launches projectiles daily towards Israel, also claimed responsibility for an explosive drone attack on Sunday against another military base located about twenty kilometers southeast of Haifa.
08:15
Israel informs UN of cancellation of UNRWA agreement
Israel officially informed the UN on Monday of the cancellation of the agreement with the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), voted by the Israeli Parliament, according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “On the instructions of Foreign Minister Israel Katz, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has notified the UN of the cancellation of the agreement between the State of Israel and UNRWA,” the statement added.
The Israeli Parliament several days ago adopted a law banning “UNRWA activities on Israeli territory.” Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, the UN Agency has become the bane of Israel, which accuses it of being infiltrated by Hamas. The UN Security Council called on Israel last Wednesday to “respect its international obligations” and the “mandate” of the irreplaceable UNRWA in Gaza. In a statement, all members of the Council recall “the vital role” of the agency which “remains the backbone of the entire humanitarian response in Gaza”.
06:50
New strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon
On Sunday, the Israeli army carried out strikes against areas of southern Lebanon, killing five people according to the Ministry of Health. The IDF says it has killed several Hezbollah fighters. The public hospital in Tebnine (south) was damaged and risks being out of service after its surroundings were hit by raids, according to Mayor Nabil Fawaz. In eastern Lebanon, Israel carried out strikes on several localities in the Bekaa plain, after an Israeli call to evacuate the thousand-year-old city of Baalbeck and its region.
06:40
Thirty people killed in the Gaza Strip
In the Gaza Strip, at least 30 people died yesterday in Israeli raids, including 17 in the north of the territory, where the Israeli army has been leading an offensive since October 6 to prevent Hamas from regrouping its forces. indicated the spokesperson for Civil Defense, Mahmoud Bassal.
Strikes targeted houses belonging to two families in Beit Lahia and Jabalia (north), killing 10 people, including women and children, he said. In the south of the territory, 13 Palestinians were killed including four children in Khan Younes according to the Ministry of Health. Houses housing civilians are hit “without prior warning”, accused Mahmoud Bassal. “In northern Gaza, the siege is complete: more than 100,000 residents are without food, water and medicine.”
06:30
On the border with Lebanon, Benjamin Netanyahu threatens Hezbollah with a “firm response”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again vowed to hit Hezbollah hard, during a trip Sunday evening to the border with Lebanon, where his army intensified its deadly strikes on strongholds of the pro-Iranian Lebanese movement.
“I want to be clear: with or without a (ceasefire) agreement, the key to restoring security in the north (of Israel) is first and foremost to keep Hezbollah beyond the Litani River, to react to any attempt at rearmament on its part and to retaliate firmly to any operation against us,” he said in front of Israeli soldiers.