Talks for a truce in Gaza are due to resume this Saturday, April 6 in Cairo, where Joe Biden urged negotiators to convince Hamas, while the Palestinian territory is ravaged by the destruction of almost six months of war and on the verge of famine .
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⇒ Israeli army announces it has recovered the body of a hostage in Gaza
⇒ Resumption of discussions for a truce in Gaza on the verge of famine
⇒ Humanitarians killed in Gaza: Israel admits a series of errors, without convincing the NGO WCK
Israeli army announces recovery of body of hostage in Gaza
The Israeli army announced this Saturday, April 6, that it had recovered during the night the body of a hostage in Khan Younes (south of the Gaza Strip), killed according to it in captivity. Elad Katzir, who was 47 years old at the time of his kidnapping on October 7 from Kibbutz Nir Oz, was “reportedly killed in captivity by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization,” said a joint statement from the army and the Shin Bet. (domestic intelligence).
His mother Hanna, also taken hostage, was released on November 24 as part of the only truce in six months of war between Israel and Hamas. His father Avraham was killed the day of the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on the kibbutz. The body of Elad Katzir was repatriated to Israel, where he was formally identified, said the army, which expressed its “deepest condolences to the family”. “Our mission is to locate and bring home the hostages,” she added.
Resuming talks for a truce in Gaza on the verge of famine
The American president “wrote today to the President of Egypt and the Emir of Qatar to inform them of the progress of the talks and to ask them to obtain from Hamas a commitment to accept and respect an agreement,” a senior American official told AFP on Friday evening on condition of anonymity. As talks stall on a truce and the release of hostages still held by the Palestinian Islamist movement, CIA chief Bill Burns will travel to Cairo for new talks scheduled for this weekend, according to media reports Americans.
The director of the American intelligence agency will meet his Israeli Mossad counterpart David Barnea as well as Egyptian and Qatari officials, according to the New York Times. The announcement of this new American attempt comes after the United States on Thursday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to conclude “without delay” an agreement for a ceasefire, against a backdrop of growing pressure from the international community in the face of to the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
The United States is losing patience and expects “results” from Israel
The death of the seven humanitarian workers from the NGO World Central Kitchen in Gaza in Israeli strikes represented one tragedy too many for the Biden administration, but the United States should not, however, make a major change in policy vis-à-vis towards their ally.
Impatience had been growing for weeks, in the face of the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip, but also in the face of the fear of a major ground offensive in Rafah, in the south of the besieged Palestinian territory, to which the States- United say they are categorically opposed. By evoking for the first time, Thursday, the possibility of conditioning American aid to Israel on “tangible” measures on this humanitarian situation, American President Joe Biden has clearly crossed a threshold, at least in words.
Humanitarians killed in Gaza: Israel does not convince the NGO WCK
The Israeli army admitted Friday that a series of errors at various levels was behind the missile strikes that killed seven aid workers in Gaza, saying it wrongly believed it targeted “Hamas agents” on board. of three vehicles. These elements, published four days after the death of the team, killed by three strikes in the space of four minutes, did not, however, convince the victims’ employer, the American NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK). The army’s internal investigation recognizes a series of “serious errors” and “violations of normal operating procedures”: “error of judgment”, “errors in decision-making”, incorrect identification of suspects and vehicles , poor coordination and decision to strike based on insufficient elements.
Canberra considers Israeli information on death of Australian aid worker “insufficient”
The information provided by Israel on the death of an Australian aid worker during a strike in the Gaza Strip is “insufficient”, declared this Saturday April 6, the head of Australian diplomacy, Penny Wong. After communicating with Israeli authorities, Australia “made it clear that we had received insufficient information to meet our expectations”, it told journalists after the death of Lalzawmi Frankcom, an Australian aid worker killed on Monday with six other humanitarian workers in an Israeli strike in Gaza. The 43-year-old Australian, nicknamed “Zomi”, worked for the American NGO World Central Kitchen, which is notably involved in sending aid by boat from Cyprus to Gaza and in the construction of a temporary pier in Gaza .
Thousands of Iranians insult Israel by paying tribute to soldiers killed in Damascus
“Death to Israel”, “Death to America”, the crowd chanted on Friday in Tehran, in tribute to seven Iranian soldiers killed in a strike blamed on Israel. A rally coinciding with “Jerusalem Day” celebrated in the region to support the Palestinians. During the funeral procession, General Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, reaffirmed his country’s determination to “punish” Israel after a deadly raid Monday on the embassy consulate Iranian in Damascus. “The Zionist regime cannot escape the (consequences) of the evil it does. It is exposed and it knows well what will happen,” he warned.
Israel accused of using AI in Gaza: UN chief “disturbed”
Two Israeli media outlets accuse Israel of using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and strike targets in Gaza, causing a very high number of civilian casualties. These accusations provoked a strong reaction on Friday from the UN Secretary General. “I am deeply disturbed by reports that the Israeli military’s bombing campaign includes artificial intelligence as a tool to identify targets, particularly in densely populated residential areas, leading to a high number of civilian casualties,” he said. declared Antonio Guterres to the press. “No portion of life or death decisions that impact entire families should be delegated to the cold calculation of algorithms.”