After having broken the ceasefire with the Palestinian Hamas movement on Tuesday, the Israeli army, which resumed its operations in the Gaza Strip, orders this Sunday, March 23 to the inhabitants of a Rafah district to evacuate the area, where Tsahal will lead “an offensive”, against “terrorist organizations”.
After several weeks of disagreement with Hamas on how to continue the truce entered into force on January 19, Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18 by resuming its bombings on the Gaza Strip before returning soldiers to the ground in areas evacuated during the truce.
In parallel, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announces the death of eight people, including a child, in strikes by Israel in South Lebanon. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is concerned about a resumption of military operations on the southern border.
Info to remember
⇒ Eight dead in Israeli strikes on South Lebanon
⇒ TSAhal orders the evacuation of Rafah to carry out anti -terrorist operations
⇒ Hamas announces the death of one of its leaders
9:20 am
Israel strikes southern Lebanon
Israel led a drone attack on a car in a southern Lebanon on Sunday, the official Lebanese news agency (Ani) on Sunday, the day after the cease-fire in November. Eight people were killed in several strikes, according to the authorities. Israel indicates that he had intercepted rockets drawn from Lebanese territory.
In the evening, the Israeli authorities announced “a second wave of strikes against dozens of terrorist targets from Hezbollah”. The Ani has reported in the process several Israeli strikes in the south and east of the country, notably in Tyr (south), where it reported three people and several injured. The Lebanese National Information Agency also announces that five people, including a child, were killed and eight injured in the locality of Touline.
The Lebanese Hezbollah pro-Iranian denied all responsibility in the rocket fire which has not been claimed, accusing “the Israeli enemy” of seeking “pretexts to continue its attacks against Lebanon”. These shots on Israel have been the first on the north of the country since the entry into force, on November 27, of a cease-fire which ended the war between the Israeli army and Hezbollah.
08:30
Israel is launching a new offensive in Rafah
The Israeli army announced this Sunday that it had launched an offensive in a district of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, where it called on the inhabitants to evacuate. The city, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had taken refuge, was very largely destroyed by the Israeli offensive of spring 2024.
In a message to the inhabitants of the district of Tel-Sultan in Rafah, the Arabic-speaking spokesman for the army Avichay Adraee indicates on his X account that the army “launched an offensive to strike the terrorist organizations” and asks the population to avoid circulating in this area and to move further north of the territory.
7:45 am
Hamas confirms the death of a senior official
On the night of Saturday to Sunday, an Israeli strike killed a senior Hamas, Salah al-Bardawil, and his wife in an Al-Mawasi camp, in the region of Khan Younès (South), confirmed this Sunday the Palestinian Islamist movement in a statement. Salah al-Bardawil was a member of the Hamas political bureau and deputy in the Palestinian Parliament.
07:00
The Israeli army says it has intercepted a missile drawn from Yemen
The Israeli Air Force announced this Sunday that it had intercepted a missile from Yemen, after warning sirens resounded in several regions of the country. Israel said it had intercepted several attacks from Yemen, since its army broke the ceasefire with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Tuesday, taking up its bombings on the Gaza Strip.
The Houthis have reportedly pointed out several American attacks since then, including a deadly bombardment led on Saturday by the United States who said they had killed several senior officials of the Yemeni rebellious movement. On Saturday evening, the Yemeni rebels television channel reported strikes at Hodeida International Airport in the west of the country. The movement reports 53 dead and 98 injured.