The war between Israel and Hamas entered its hundredth day this Sunday, January 14, despite international calls for a truce in the conflict which has plunged the Gaza Strip into a major humanitarian crisis.
“The massive death, destruction, displacement, hunger, loss and grief of the last hundred days taint our common humanity,” said the head of the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). ), Philippe Lazzarini, visiting the coastal territory. “It has been a hundred days since this devastating war began, killing and displacing people in Gaza, following horrific attacks by Hamas and other groups against the people in Israel. It has been a hundred days of hardship and anguish for the hostages and their families,” he said from the Palestinian territory.
Information to remember
⇒ The UN deplores 100 days of “devastating war” in Gaza
⇒ Benjamin Netanyahu warns that “no one” would stop his country in war
⇒ Israeli army kills “four terrorists” infiltrating from Lebanon
War in Gaza: “No one will stop us,” warns Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Saturday that “no one” would stop his country in the war launched in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the bloody attack carried out by Hamas on October 7. “No one will stop us, neither The Hague, nor the Axis of Evil, nor anyone else,” he declared during a press conference in Tel Aviv, referring in particular to the request of the South Africa before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Benjamin Netanyahu assured that military operations had already made it possible to “eliminate most of the Hamas battalions” in the Palestinian territory led by the Islamist movement. Furthermore, regarding the issue of Palestinians displaced by the fighting – some 1.9 million people out of the 2.4 million Gazans according to the UN – Benyamin Netanyahu indicated that “there is an international law and it says a simple thing: you displace a population and you don’t bring them back as long as the danger exists. And the danger exists.”
Israel: army kills “four terrorists” infiltrating from Lebanon
The Israeli army killed “four terrorists” who had infiltrated Israel from Lebanon before “opening fire” on its soldiers during the night from Saturday to Sunday, it said in a statement. During a patrol “in the Har Dov sector”, Israeli soldiers spotted a terrorist cell entering Israeli territory from Lebanon which opened fire” on them. Responding, the Israeli soldiers killed “four terrorists”, according to the army press release.
Har Dov is the Israeli name for the Shebaa Farms, a disputed border area. Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, there have been daily exchanges of fire on the border between the Israeli army and Lebanese Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas. In more than three months of violence at the border, 190 people have been killed in Lebanon, including at least 141 Hezbollah fighters, according to an AFP count. The Israeli army has counted the deaths of at least 13 Israelis, including nine soldiers.
US military strikes again at Houthi rebels in Yemen
The US military carried out a new strike on Saturday against Houthi rebel sites in Yemen after the latter increased their threats against international maritime traffic in the Red Sea.
Early Saturday, the Houthi channel, al-Masirah, reported strikes on at least one site in the capital Sanaa, under rebel control. “The US-British enemy targets […] Sanaa, with a (certain) number of raids,” the media said on its X account. The United States Central Military Command (Centcom) then confirmed an American strike around 3:45 a.m. “against a radar site in Yemen” Early Saturday evening, a military source allied to the rebels and a police source announced that a new strike had hit the city of Hodeida (west), in response to a rocket attack carried out by the Houthis from this port city .
Thousands of demonstrators in Washington and London demand a ceasefire in Gaza
Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday in Washington and London in support of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, demanding an “immediate” ceasefire and criticizing the support given to Israel by the United States and Great Britain. Brittany.
Waving Palestinian flags and many wearing the traditional keffiyeh, thousands of people, the vast majority of them young people, gathered in the center of the American capital, on the 99th day of the war between Israel and Hamas. “Immediate ceasefire!” chanted the participants, who brandished signs reading “Freedom for Palestine” or “Let Gaza live, stop financing genocide”.
The seventh demonstration in support of the population of the Gaza Strip since October 7 took place in London on Saturday. After a break during the end-of-year holidays, the mobilization started again in the British capital with a march from the City and towards Parliament Square, where the Palace of Westminster is located.