A new attack was claimed by Hezbollah on the northern border of Israel this Sunday, June 23, in response to the elimination of an Islamist leader by the Israeli army, while Western powers have been warning for several days of the creation of a parallel conflict that could destabilize the entire region. Demonstrations against Benjamin Netanyahu are gaining momentum.
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⇒ Lebanese Hezbollah drone attack on northern Israel
⇒ Europe wants to open an investigation into the attack on the Red Cross in Gaza
⇒ New demonstration against Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv
New Hezbollah attack in northern Israel
This Sunday, June 23, Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it had launched an “explosive drone” against a military site in northern Israel, in response to the death of a Lebanese Islamist group leader killed the day before in an Israeli strike in the is from Lebanon. Hezbollah said its fighters launched an “air attack with a drone loaded with explosives” on an Israeli barracks in Beit Hillel. According to the Israeli army, the “hostile drone launched from Lebanon” entered northern Israel but was intercepted without causing any casualties.
In recent days, Western powers have become very concerned about the escalation of a second conflict between Israel and Lebanon, which could help completely destabilize the region. The pro-Iranian movement also published a new video showing what it presents as sites in Israel with their coordinates, without identifying them, five days after revealing images of Haifa taken according to it by a drone which flew over this large port in northern Israel.
Islamist group leader killed in Lebanon
A Lebanese security source said a leader of the Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, close to Palestinian Hamas, was killed Saturday in an Israeli strike targeting his vehicle in eastern Lebanon. The Israeli army confirmed that it had “eliminated” this official.
During the Lebanese Civil War, Jamaa Islamiya founded an armed wing, the al-Fajr Forces, to fight the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. These forces which today claim responsibility for attacks against Israel, including joint operations with Hamas, present in Lebanon, number some 500 men, according to estimates.
An investigation into the bombing of the Red Cross in Gaza
Friday June 21, “large caliber” shots near the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Al-Mawasi, near Rafah, caused “a massive influx of victims towards the field hospital of the Cross- Red”, which “received 22 dead and 45 wounded”, according to the ICRC, without specifying the origin of the shots. First there were “several large explosions” near the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza. Then a flood of wounded, “heaps of corpses” and “pools of blood”, said an official of the organization on Saturday.
The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, called on Saturday for an investigation to be carried out. “The EU condemns the shelling which damaged the ICRC office in Gaza and caused dozens of casualties. An independent investigation is necessary and those responsible will be held to account,” he wrote on X.
Demonstration against Netanyahu in Tel Aviv
Protests have been gaining momentum in Israel in recent weeks. On Saturday June 22, tens of thousands of demonstrators – around 150,000 according to organizers – brandishing Israeli flags and chanting slogans against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gathered in Tel Aviv, demanding early elections and the return of hostages held in Gaza. Similar demonstrations have taken place in recent weeks in Tel Aviv to protest the management of the war in Gaza and the Prime Minister’s inability to negotiate the release of dozens of hostages still held in the Palestinian territory.
Emmanuel Macron receives the King of Jordan
Emmanuel Macron will receive King Abdullah II of Jordan for lunch on Monday to discuss in particular the situation in Gaza and “the extreme urgency of concluding, without further delay, the agreement on a ceasefire.” fire in Gaza, which finally guarantees the protection of all civilians and the massive entry of emergency aid”, indicated the French presidency. During this lunch will also be discussed “the massive delivery of humanitarian aid to the population of Gaza, in continuation of the cooperation operations already underway.”
Emmanuel Macron had already received Abdallah II in February, the French president affirming at the end of this meeting that “the recognition of a Palestinian state is not a taboo for France”.