UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called this Monday, January 15, for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip after more than 100 days of war between Israel and Hamas. “We continue to call for rapid, safe, unimpeded, extensive, and continuous humanitarian access into and through Gaza,” Antonio Guterres said in a speech to the press.
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⇒ A car attack near Tel Aviv
⇒ Ship hit by missile off Yemen
⇒ A missile targeting an American destroyer shot down by the United States
Car attack near Tel Aviv
A woman was killed and at least 17 other people injured in a car attack in Ra’anana (center) on Monday, January 15, emergency services and Israeli police announced.
Israeli police chief Kobi Shabtai explained to journalists on site “that the two perpetrators of the attack are relatives, residents of the (Palestinian) territories, who arrived illegally” at the scene of the attack. According to the police spokesperson, they live in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, and are suspected of having stolen a car before knocking down passers-by at several sites in this suburb of Tel Aviv. Shin Beth, the internal security service, for its part specified in a press release that it was questioning the two suspects, aged 25 and 44.
Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba said an “injured woman, admitted in critical condition, died despite resuscitation efforts.” The emergency services, for their part, reported a death toll of at least thirteen injured, including at least two in serious condition.
Ship hit by missile off Yemen
A ship was hit by a missile off the coast of Yemen, the British Maritime Safety Agency (UKMTO) said on Monday, the day after Yemeni Houthi rebels fired a cruise missile at an American destroyer. .
The ship “was hit from above by a missile”, the UKMTO reported, specifying that the incident took place southeast of the city of Aden. According to the British maritime risk company Ambrey, the ship hit off the coast of Aden is an American bulk carrier, flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, which was heading towards the Suez Canal.
A missile targeting an American destroyer shot down by the United States
The American army announced this Sunday that it had shot down a cruise missile targeting an American destroyer, fired from an area of Yemen controlled by the Houthis. The missile targeted the USS Laboon, operating in the southern Red Sea, according to a statement from the US Middle East Command (Centcom). “The missile was shot down in the vicinity of the coast of Hodeidah [dans l’ouest du Yémen] by an American fighter plane,” Centcom added, indicating that there were no injuries or damage.
Upstream, Washington denied reports from Houthi media reporting new “American-British strikes” carried out this Sunday against the port city of Hodeida.
On the other hand, on Friday January 12, American and British forces had struck targets across Yemen, reinforcing fears of regional spread of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
Hamas says ‘many’ hostages killed recently
The armed wing of Hamas released a video this Sunday, January 14, showing three living Israeli hostages, two men and a woman, held in the Gaza Strip since October 7. This video gives no indication of when it was filmed. The three hostages ask the Israeli authorities in Hebrew to act for their release.
Furthermore, Hamas’ military wing said that “many” of the hostages “were probably killed recently” and attributed “full responsibility” for their fate to Israel.
Some 250 people were taken hostage on October 7, and 132 are still in Gaza, of whom at least 25 are believed to have been killed, according to Israeli authorities. About a hundred were released under a truce at the end of November.
Rallies in Israel for the 100th day of the conflict
For one hundred days of detention, and as much anguish, the Israelis expressed this Sunday, January 14, their solidarity with the hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas and its allies, and demanded their return.
Throughout the day, a series of events were organized in Tel Aviv where the day before, several thousand people had already gathered. Elsewhere in the country, prayers were said and speeches delivered during ceremonies organized in universities, while in Jerusalem deputies released yellow balloons in front of the Israeli parliament.
Such rallies also took place in London, Paris and Berlin to demand the “immediate” release of the hostages.
Three gunmen and five Palestinians died
The Israeli army killed three armed men who entered its territory this Sunday, in the border region with Lebanon where two Israeli civilians, a mother and her son, also died in a missile attack from the neighboring country. During a patrol “in the Har Dov sector”, Israeli soldiers “spotted a terrorist cell entering Israeli territory from Lebanon which opened fire” on them, the army said in a statement.
In addition, five Palestinians died this Sunday after incidents and clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, according to a tally from the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The Israeli army said it had killed two “terrorists” after chasing a car that had forced its way through a checkpoint near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Palestinian video journalist killed in strike
Yazan al-Zwaidi, a 28-year-old Palestinian, video journalist for the Arab television channel Al-Ghad, based in Cairo, was killed on Sunday in Gaza, this media announced, attributing his death to “shooting” from the Israeli army. In addition to Yazan al-Zwaidi, at least 82 journalists and media workers, the vast majority Palestinian, have been killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The UN said it was “very concerned” on Monday by this “high toll”.
On January 9, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) declared that crimes against journalists were included in its investigation into war crimes in Gaza.