Where is Joe Biden’s “red line” really? While Rafah is subject to incessant bombings, the White House continues to judge that Israel has not launched a “major” offensive against this city in the south of the Gaza Strip, likely to call into question American support.
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⇒ Rafah: Washington “does not turn a blind eye” but maintains its support for Israel
⇒ Palestine: Macron for recognition at a “useful moment”
⇒ Gaza: an LFI deputy brandishes a Palestinian flag
Rafah: Washington “does not turn a blind eye” but maintains its support for Israel
The United States “does not turn a blind eye” to the victims in Rafah but maintains its support for Israel, a White House spokesperson assured Tuesday, reacting to the Israeli strike on Sunday which provoked indignation in the international level. The Palestinians denounced a “massacre” and the Israelis recognized a “tragic accident” after the bombing on Sunday evening in a camp for displaced people in Rafah, which left 45 dead and 249 injured according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
“This is not something we turn a blind eye to,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said at a press briefing, in response to a reporter’s question asking “how many charred corpses” will make Joe Biden change his policy towards Israel.
Palestine: Macron for recognition at a “useful moment”
French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated on Tuesday that the recognition of a Palestinian state was not a “taboo subject” but that it must come “at a useful moment” and not under the influence of “emotion”.
“There is no taboo for France and I am totally ready to recognize a Palestinian state but […] I consider that this recognition must come at a useful time,” he declared during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Meseberg, near Berlin. “I will not make an emotional recognition “.
Gaza: an LFI deputy brandishes a Palestinian flag
A Palestinian flag brandished in the middle of the hemicycle, a heated altercation at Quatre-Colonnes and finally the exclusion of deputy Sébastien Delogu: the rebels set the National Assembly ablaze on Tuesday, questioning the presidential camp on the situation in Rafah, in the strip from Gaza.
While the Minister of Foreign Trade, Franck Riester, responded to the LFI MP Alma Dufour during the question session to the government, and the term “genocide” was flying from the ranks of La France insoumise, the MP for Bouches-du- Rhône suddenly stood up and displayed a Palestinian flag in the hemicycle.
Second consecutive demonstration in Paris against the strikes on Rafah
Thousands of people gathered Tuesday evening in Paris, for the second day in a row, to protest against the Israeli bombings on Rafah, AFP noted. Up to 4,500 people gathered at Place de la République at the height of the evening, according to the police headquarters’ count.
A crowd of 10,000 people was recorded on Monday. Like the day before, the demonstrators then dispersed in wild processions in the streets of Paris until late at night, sometimes under tear gas from the police.
Rafah: Algeria will present a resolution to the Security Council
Algeria presented to members of the UN Security Council a draft resolution demanding an end to the Israeli offensive in Rafah and an “immediate” ceasefire, according to the text seen Tuesday by AFP . At the end of an emergency meeting of the Security Council, Tuesday, May 28, in New York, the Algerian ambassador to the UN Amar Bendjama announced that his country would circulate to the other members of the Council a ” short text, a clear text, to stop the massacre in Rafah”.
Nikki Haley pictured writing ‘Finish them off’ on Israeli shell
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley wrote “Finish them off” on an Israeli shell during a trip to northern Israel, near the Lebanese border, according to a photo published Tuesday on X by an Israeli MP. MP Danny Danon, former ambassador to the UN, accompanied Nikki Haley, also former ambassador to the United Nations, during this trip near the northern border with Lebanon.
“‘Finish them off,’ that’s what my friend the former ambassador wrote,” Danon said in the caption of the photo showing the former Republican candidate kneeling in front of a shell, a marker in hand and writing about the missile. Also written on the shell are the words “America Loves Israel.” Nikki Haley did not specify who the word “them” referred to, but Danny Danon indirectly suggested Lebanese Hezbollah.