Cover photo: Israeli Merkava tanks take position in the northern Gaza Strip, October 29, 2023. JACK GUEZ / AFP
- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced during the day on Saturday that it would further increase its operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. after a night of bombing of unprecedented proportions. According to the Israeli army, the numerous attacks were accompanied by ground collapses on Saturday evening. “A combined force of tanks, engineers and infantry is operating on the ground” in the Palestinian enclave, the IDF said. Gaza City and the surrounding areas are now viewed as a “battlefield” by the Israeli army.
- The situation on site was always difficult to monitor due to the failure of a large part of telecommunications as a result of the bombings. led by Israel. On Saturday, the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, an area under Hamas control, assured that “hundreds of buildings and houses have been completely destroyed.” The latest report from Gaza’s Health Ministry, also administered by the Islamist movement, shows that more than 8,000 Palestinians have been killed since the conflict began on October 7th.
- Benjamin Netanyahu warned Saturday evening that the war would be “protracted and difficult” and that its goal was to “destroy” Hamas. “We will fight and we will win,” declared the Israeli prime minister. “I think 90% of Hamas’s military budget comes from Iran. [Ce pays] He finances it, he organizes it, he runs it,” Mr. Netanyahu also affirmed.who admitted, however, that he “cannot say” that Iran was “involved in this specific action” on October 7th.
- Mr Netanyahu also promised that Israel would “explore all options” to secure the release of around 220 hostages held by the Palestinian Islamist movement. For his part, Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinouar, said he was ready to “immediately” complete an exchange of “all Palestinian prisoners held by Israel” “for all hostages held in the Gaza Strip.” Gaza.
- Israel has recalled its diplomats from Turkey after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the Jewish state, Secretary of State Eli Cohen announced on Saturday. Earlier, during a “rally in support of Palestine” in Istanbul, the Turkish head of state said: “Israel, we declare you a war criminal in front of the whole world” and “Israel, you are the occupiers, the invaders.” “What is happening in Gaza is not self-defense, but a massacre,” he added.
- During the same speech Mr. Erdogan accused the West of being “the main culprit in the massacres in Gaza.” “I ask the West: will you create a new atmosphere of crusades against the Crescent? [emblème de la religion musulmane] ? “, he explained, adding: “You mourned the children killed in Ukraine, why this silence in the face of the children killed in Gaza?” »
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres renewed his call for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” on Saturday and the “unconditional release of the hostages” by Hamas. The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, also called for “a pause in hostilities.” (…) to enable humanitarian access.”
- In London on Saturday, tens of thousands of people took part in a demonstration in support of the Palestinianswhich was organized for the third weekend in a row to call for a ceasefire. In Paris, between “3,000 and 4,000” people gathered at the Place du Châtelet, according to the prefecture, despite the ban on demonstrations in support of Palestine.
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