Israel intends to continue the war and promises to “mercilessly strike Hezbollah in all parts of Lebanon”. Benyamin Netanyahu also plans to strike the Iranian army in retaliation for the rain of missiles launched at the Jewish state in early October.
The essentials
- This Tuesday, October 15, Israel reaffirms its desire to continue the fight in the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to continue “to mercilessly strike Hezbollah in all parts of Lebanon, including in Beirut” in the wake of Lebanon’s deadliest attack since the start of the war. ‘escalation. The Islamist movement claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted a military base in Binyamina, in northern Israel, and which killed four soldiers and left more than 60 injured according to rescuers.
- The Israeli Prime Minister also plans to attack Iran according to the Washington Post. Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Joe Biden and assured the American president of his intention to strike the Iranian army and its military bases, without touching nuclear or oil sites, to retaliate after the rain of 200 missiles launched by Tehran against the Jewish state on October 1.
- The Israeli attack which targeted the Al Aqsa hospital, in the Gaza Strip, and caused several victims, including civilians burned alive, continues to provoke reactions. The United States recalled that “Israel has a responsibility to do more to avoid civilian casualties – and what happened here is horrible”, but it does not condemn the attack targeting Hamas which “operated near the hospital in an attempt to use civilians as human shields.
- While Israel demanded the withdrawal of peacekeepers from southern Lebanon, the head of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) rejected the request: “It was decided that[elle] would retain all of its positions despite calls by the Israeli army for it to vacate positions near the Blue Line.” As a reminder, Israel is accused of having “forcibly entered” two tanks into a UNIFIL positions, injuring peacekeepers, on Sunday October 13 Attacks that could amount to “war crimes” denounced by the Secretary General of the United Nations.
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09:40 – Civilians burned alive after hospital attack in Gaza
“Another night of horror in the Gaza Strip” wrote the UN organization UNRWA after an Israeli strike “hit the courtyard of a hospital, burning the tents where people were sleeping” at dawn on October 14 . The strike was launched in the middle of the night and “tents caught fire following an airstrike on the courtyard of Al Aqsa hospital where people were seeking refuge” according to Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA. Images of the attack circulated on social media and showed the horror of the scene and some people caught in the flames, burning alive. Facts reported by journalists from L’Orient le Jour.
Another night of horror in the #Gaza Strip.
A strike hit a hospital courtyard, burning the tents where people were sleeping. Just before this, an @UNRWA school sheltering families was hit in Nuseirat.
That same school was going to be used as a #polio vaccination site today. pic.twitter.com/EZt07HuKol
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) October 14, 2024
Israel justified its attack by explaining that it had carried out a strike against a “command and control center (of Palestinian fighters), which was located in a compound formerly serving as the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital”.
09:22 – US reaction to Israeli attack on Gaza hospital and images of civilians burned alive
While on October 14, UNRWA denounced and broadcast images of the horror scenes that occurred in a hospital in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli strike, the spokesperson for the National Security Council of the White House reacted this Tuesday as reported an Axios journalist : “The images and videos of what appear to be displaced civilians being burned alive after an Israeli airstrike are deeply disturbing and we have made our concerns clear to the Israeli government. Israel has a responsibility to do more to prevent civilian casualties – and what happened here is horrible, even though Hamas was operating near the hospital trying to use civilians as human shields.” The main American ally denounces the horror caused by the attack, without condemning the attack itself which targeted a hospital considered to be a Hamas landmark but occupied by civilians.
09:10 – Netanyahu plans to strike Iran
Israel has still not retaliated against Iran after the rain of 200 missiles launched by Tehran against the Jewish state on October 1, but the Israeli Prime Minister is looking into the issue and raised it during a telephone interview with Joe Biden on Monday October 14 according to the Washington Post. According to the American newspaper, Benjamin Netanyahu plans to strike Iranian military bases, without hitting nuclear or oil sites. No firing window would have been mentioned, nor even an “imminence” of the attack.
10/14/24 – 9:54 p.m. – Netanyahu pleads for the withdrawal of UNIFIL, Paris, Berlin, Rome and London express their concern
Monday evening, the Israeli Prime Minister estimated in a second video that “the best way to ensure the safety of UNIFIL personnel is for UNIFIL to respond to Israel’s request and temporarily withdraw from danger”, assuring in passing , while the Jewish state is accused of “possible war crimes” by the UN after five peacekeepers were injured by Israeli strikes in recent days: “Israel is not fighting UNIFIL. It is not fighting the people Lebanese. It fights Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy which uses Lebanese territory to attack Israel.
A little later in the evening, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom expressed in a joint statement their “deep concern following the recent attacks of the Israeli army against the UNIFIL bases, which left several peacekeepers injured. Condemning “all threats to the security of UNIFIL”, they called for these “attacks to stop immediately” and brandished international law.
10/14/24 – 6:54 p.m. – Israel will continue “to mercilessly strike Hezbollah, including in Beirut”, promises Benyamin Netanyahu
While Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in open war since September 23, the Prime Minister of the Hebrew State once again made remarks that were, to say the least, offensive this Monday, in a video filmed during a visit in a military base struck the day before by a Hezbollah drone and published on social networks. Benyamin Netanyahu clearly assures that Israel will continue “to mercilessly strike Hezbollah in all parts of Lebanon, including in Beirut”.
14/10/24 – 09:55 – Bombing of a hospital in Gaza by the Israeli army: 4 dead and 40 injured
This Monday morning, according to Palestinian doctors cited by Associated Press, the courtyard of a hospital in the Gaza Strip was bombed by the Israeli army, killing at least four people and causing a fire in a camp. displaced. In the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital, children were present at the time of the attack, four dead and forty injured have so far been recorded.
The IDF, for its part, claims that it was targeting “terrorists”. “Hamas agents used the hospital compound to plan and carry out terrorist attacks against the IDF forces and the State of Israel,” said the Arabic-speaking spokesperson for the Israeli army, on X. Un reason already mentioned by the Israeli army to target this type of establishment.
42,289. This is the number of deaths in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas terrorist offensive on October 7, 2023 in Israel. A figure communicated by the Ministry of Health of the Hamas government on Monday October 14, 2024 and which reveals the intensity of the fighting which has lasted for more than a year now. Over the months, tensions intensified, and as of October 27, 2023, Israel extended its ground operation to Gaza. The objective for Netanyahu and the IDF is clear: to “annihilate” Hamas. A one-week ceasefire nevertheless took place in November 2023. After a significant leap forward, on April 13, 2024, Iran launched its first massive attack on Israel. Hamas ally, Iran then fired nearly 350 explosive drones and missiles at the Jewish state. An attack in response to missiles fired at the embassy in Damascus, Syria on April 1, in which 11 people lost their lives, including seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Tuesday September 17, 2024, a new kind of attack broke into the war. Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies explode. Twelve deaths and nearly 3,000 injured have been recorded in Lebanon. Since its coordinated explosions, Israel has continued to strike Lebanon with air or ground raids. More than 1,000 people are killed in IDF strikes and thousands of Lebanese are forced to be displaced. On October 1, 2024, Iran responded by sending nearly 200 ballistic missiles directly to Israel. Since then, the two countries have been waging a merciless war. On October 8, 2024, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, threatened Lebanon with “destruction and suffering like those we see in Gaza” if the population of the country does not ” “liberated” not from Hezbollah. Comments described as “provocation” by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot.
Monday October 14, 2024, Lebanese Hezbollah threatened Israel with new attacks in a press release. As a reminder, Hezbollah had struck Haifa two days earlier, killing four Israeli soldiers and injuring no less than 60. At the start of the week, the terrorist organization indicated that “the resistance (…) promises the enemy”. The raid carried out “south of Haifa is only a foretaste of what awaits him if he decides to continue his attacks against our people”, she threatens. According to Palestinian doctors cited by Associated Press, the courtyard of a hospital in the Gaza Strip was then bombed by the Israeli army, killing at least four people and causing a fire in a camp for displaced people.