• It is the 66th day of the war: According to Hamas, over 17,900 Palestinians have been killed, including 7,112 children. In Israel, 1,200 people died in the attack on October 7th.
• Hamas: “No hostages will be released without negotiations.” Netanyahu: “Surrender, don’t die for Sinwar.”
• The words and acronyms to understand the conflict: Here is the glossary.
• The history of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, explained here.
2:50 p.m. – Iran: “Like Israel, we do not believe in the two-state solution”
“The only thing we share with Israel is that we do not believe in the two-state solution either,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said during an online conference hosted by Qatar, Portal reported on its website. Amirabdollahian reiterated Iran's proposal to hold a referendum to decide the future of Palestine, with the only eligible parties being the descendants of those who lived in the territory before 1948. “Israel occupies Palestinian land and we believe that a two-state solution is possible and will not contribute to resolving the Palestinian issue,” the Islamic Republic minister added, as reported by Mehr.
2:15 p.m. – Hamas: “The hostages will only be released alive under our conditions.”
Hamas military wing spokesman Abu Obaida reiterated that “Israel and its supporters will not be able to bring the prisoners back alive without a prisoner exchange agreement and without the terms of Hamas’ military wing to accept.”
Obaida, Haaretz writes, also stated that “the resistance forces are still in good condition and thousands of fighters are still waiting for instructions and have not yet fulfilled their duty” and that they have no choice but to “continue to fight “To confront the Holocaust.”
2:11 p.m. – Red Sea, US wants anti-Houti air-naval coalition
(by Guido Olimpio) The United States is seeking to form an air-naval coalition to maintain security in the Red Sea following attacks by the pro-Iranian Houti faction. Contacts are already underway with numerous partners: this is a new edition of an existing unit. In April 2022, the Pentagon announced the creation of Task Force 135 with command in Bahrain, tasked with patrolling from the Suez Canal to Bab el Mandeb. A multinational branch of the larger Combined Maritime Force covering 38 countries, including Italy. But this outfit, which has also been joined by Middle Eastern states, is likely to have trouble cracking down on Shiite guerrillas operating in Yemen and backed by Iran. Washington then considered a new option, made more urgent by the surge in serious cases. (…)
– Houthi rebels with Yemeni and Palestinian flags last November (EPA)
2:10 p.m. – France: “Houti drones shot down.” No to any violation of freedom of navigation. Avoid escalation”
The French Foreign Ministry today launched an appeal to “avoid any regional escalation” after a French frigate shot down two drones from northern Yemen in the Red Sea, an area under the control of Houthi rebels who threaten to overturn this strategic exit for the region Conflict between Israel and Hamas: “We condemn all violations of freedom of navigation,” the Quai d'Orsay said in a statement, assuring that it “follows the evolution of the situation in the Red Sea and the Strait of “We will follow Bab very closely.” el Mandeb”.
2:05 p.m. – One of the former hostages: “I heard the stories of three other girls who were sexually abused”
A former hostage, Chen Goldstein-Almog, told Kan TV, citing the media, that while she was in Gaza, she met three other kidnapped women who told her that they had been sexually abused and that they had been sexually abused by I heard a similar story from a fourth. “We heard three stories first hand and – he explained – another was told to us.” Things that happened a few weeks after their arrival in Gaza. You are physically injured.”
“The way they sexually assaulted them and desecrated their bodies,” he stressed, “they don't know how to get away with it.” “If they had been released earlier, they would have been spared. “We also saw,” he continued, “a boy who was beaten.” “Everything must be done,” he concluded his story on television, “to get them out of the strip.”
1:27 p.m. – A 16-year-old is arrested in Austria for an attempted attack on the synagogue in Vienna
A 16-year-old from northern Austria has been arrested for allegedly planning the attack on a synagogue in Vienna. This was announced by the Austrian Interior Ministry. The boy arrested on Thursday discussed in online chats his intention to obtain a weapon to attack an unspecified synagogue in Vienna, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said. He had already procured the economic tools for the attack, the Austrian news agency Apa reported. According to APA, officers searched the home of the suspect, whose details were not disclosed, and confiscated several electronic devices. The authorities also found images and video material with instructions on how to make bombs, weapons and ammunition, the APA said. Austrian authorities have increased security measures at synagogues and other Jewish and Israeli institutions following a rise in anti-Semitic incidents amid the war between Israel and Hamas.
1:26 p.m. – Israel, 18 Palestinians arrested in West Bank
The Israeli army and security forces said they arrested 18 people in the West Bank last night, five of whom are suspected of being linked to Hamas. The arrests – including the confiscation of weapons and ammunition – took place in the Balata refugee camp in the towns of Dura and Tarqumya.
1:15 p.m. – Tajani: “Jewish settlers must not be put on the same level as Hamas”
“Israeli settlers cannot be equated with Hamas terrorists.” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said this on the sidelines of the EU Council when asked whether Italy supported Belgium's call for sanctions against settlers in the West Bank. “What the settlers are doing in the West Bank is wrong and we said it, we asked Israel to stop the settlers' violence. “But Hamas has committed evil crimes and Israel's response to Hamas is right,” he added.
1:09 p.m. – Moscow: “Hamas demands the release of all hostages”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov called for the release of hostages held in Gaza in talks held between yesterday and today with representatives of Hamas and other Palestinian factions. This was announced by the Moscow Foreign Ministry. The statement came following a series of meetings and phone calls between President Vladimir Putin and Middle Eastern leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yesterday, Israel said Netanyahu had raised Russia's “dangerous” cooperation with Iran and Moscow's “anti-Israel” stance at the United Nations on ceasefire demands as issues in his talks with Putin. Putin, for his part, stressed that Israel must avoid “terrible consequences for the civilian population.”
12:44 p.m. – Iran thanks Guterres for ceasefire request, “regrettable US veto”
Iran thanked United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for calling for the adoption of a resolution on an immediate ceasefire for the Gaza Strip during the last session of the UN Security Council. “We must thank the UN Secretary-General, who invoked Article 99 of the United Nations Charter in the Security Council and called for immediate measures to maintain international peace and security,” said the ministry's spokesman, Tehran's Foreign Minister Nasser Kanani, as quoted by Tasnim News agency. “Unfortunately, we witnessed the deplorable actions of the United States in vetoing the resolution and rejecting the call of the international community to end this bloody war and this barbaric attack by Israel on the Gaza Strip,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman added .
11:56 a.m. – Italy-Germany-France to the EU, yes to sanctions against Hamas
The foreign ministers of Italy, Germany and France have sent a letter – seen by LaPresse – to EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell in support of his proposal to create a sanctions regime against Hamas leaders in solidarity with Israel and the attacks the group to counter terrorist operations.
11:42 a.m. – Israel: “3 more soldiers killed in Gaza, total now 104”
The Israeli army announced the deaths of more reservist soldiers killed in fighting in the southern Gaza Strip in the Khan Yunis area. According to official information, the total number of soldiers who died rises to 104.
11:21 a.m. – Rocket fire on Tel Aviv and central Israel
Warning sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and other places in central Israel after rocket fire was fired from the Gaza Strip. The Times of Israel reports on it. In addition to Tel Aviv, the alarm was also raised in Holon, Or Yehuda, Bat Yam and surrounding communities, but also in Rishon Lezion, Palmachim and Beit Dagan. There are currently no reports of injuries or damage.
10:31 a.m. – Israel, weapons and explosives in UNRWA bags in Gaza
Yesterday in the Jabalia refugee camp (Gaza), the Israeli army found further confirmation of the systematic use of civilian structures and humanitarian organizations by the military wing of Hamas. According to the military spokesman, explosive devices, Kalashnikov rifles and an RPG rocket launcher were found in bags belonging to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. A truck with long-range missiles was also parked in the immediate vicinity of a school. Yesterday, the military spokesman also condemned the firing of Hamas rockets from humanitarian areas for displaced people in the southern end of the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, military spokesman Daniel Hagari reported yesterday that the army had taken control of Gaza's central Falastin Square, “under which there is a vast network of military tunnels.” “Hamas – he specified – has invested enormous resources to create an 'underground Gaza Strip' over which the 'open-air Gaza Strip' serves as an extensive human shield.”
10:27 a.m. – Israel confirms the opening of the Kerem Shalom border crossing
Israel has confirmed that it will open the Kerem Shalom crossing on the Gaza Strip-Egypt border to increase the amount of aid flowing into the enclave. This was reported by Israel's Government Coordination Office in the Palestinian Territories (COGAT). “We have increased our capacity to control aid delivered to the Gaza Strip. “Kerem Shalom will be open, so the number of inspections will double,” the office said in a statement. However, aid will continue to enter Gaza through Rafah, and Cogat has called on the United Nations to act more quickly on humanitarian aid entering Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah crossing. “Help continues to wait at the entrance to Rafah: the United Nations must do better: the help is there and the people need it.”
10:26 a.m. – Hezbollah claims attacks against Israel
Hezbollah has claimed eight attacks on Israeli military positions in the Upper Galilee near the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel. This was reported by the Party of God's Lebanese television channel al Manar itself. According to reports, Hezbollah's attacks against Israel were directed against Israeli army barracks and positions in the areas in front of the Lebanese cities of Naqura, Alma Shaab, Hunin, Hula, Dhahira and in Shebaa Farms and Kfar Shuba Hills.
10:23 a.m. – Israel attacks the UN: ignores Israeli suffering
Members of the United Nations Security Council will visit the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing to monitor the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory. A visit that is heavily criticized by Israel. “This visit shows once again that the council only cares about the residents of Gaza and ignores the suffering of the residents of southern Israel and the fate of the hostages,” said Gilad Erdan, the Jewish state’s ambassador to the United Nations. “The distorted visit of a council,” he continued, “that has not even condemned Hamas deprives its decisions regarding the war in Gaza of any legitimacy.” It's a disgrace!”
9:17 a.m. – Italy, Germany and France to the EU: “Sanctions for Hamas”
The foreign ministers of Italy, France and Germany support the proposal of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell “to establish a sanctions regime against the leaders of Hamas in solidarity with Israel and to combat terrorist operations by this group.” . In a joint letter, Antonio Tajani, Catherine Colonna and Annalena Baerbock expressed their “full support for the proposal that would allow the EU to target Hamas members, affiliated groups and supporters of its destabilizing activities.”
9:10 a.m. – Hamas, the death toll in Gaza is over 18,000
There are more than 18,000 deaths in Gaza from the Israeli offensive. This was announced by the Ministry of Health of the Hamas-ruled enclave. According to the Islamist movement, 70% of the dead were women and children. The number of injured, it goes on to say, is 49,200.
8:56 a.m. – Israel has no plan to expel the population from Gaza
Israel has no plans to expel Gaza's Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip. This was reiterated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman Eylon Levy, calling the information in this regard “scandalous and false accusations.” Levy said he was referring to Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi's claims in his speech in Doha when he denounced “Israel's systematic efforts to rid Gaza of its people.” Levy was quoted by the media as saying that Israel had only encouraged the people of Gaza to leave the main fighting areas, but not the Gaza Strip itself.
8:13 a.m. – Israel, 4 more soldiers dead, total now 101
The Israeli army announced the deaths of four more soldiers: three of them in fighting in the southern Gaza Strip and the fourth in a car accident. According to official figures, the total number of soldiers who have died since the start of the operation in Gaza is now 101.
08:09 – Russia sends 17.5 tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza
The Russian Emergencies Ministry today sent a plane carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. According to Ria Novosti, an IL-76 flew to El Arish, Egypt with “17.5 tons of humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza.” The shipment, which includes food, medicine, blankets and clothing, will be handed over to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent, who will deliver these materials to the Palestinian enclave. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs describes the situation in Gaza as catastrophic and warns that World Food Program reserves in the enclave are depleting. The supply of drinking water from Israel to central and southern Gaza is limited to around 1,100 cubic meters per hour. The north of the enclave now has no access to clean water.
7:37 a.m. – Israeli army: heavy fighting in Gaza City and Khan Yunis
The Gaza Strip was the bloody scene of Israeli airstrikes and intense fighting today after the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas threatened not to release the hostages it was holding “alive” due to a lack of negotiations. Overnight, an AFP reporter reported heavy airstrikes on the town of Khan Yunis, the new epicenter of the war at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. Hamas' health ministry in Gaza reported “dozens” of deaths in nighttime raids. Islamic Jihad, Palestine's second-largest armed Islamist movement, said one of its fighters blew up a house in an area of Gaza City where Israeli soldiers were trying to identify the mouth of an underground tunnel. The Israeli army reported rocket fire from Gaza yesterday and “fierce fighting” in neighborhoods of Gaza City and Khan Yunis, where Palestinian fighters “emerged from tunnels,” “used explosives” and used a “rocket launcher.”
7:33 a.m. – At least 8 rockets were fired from Lebanon toward Israel
At least eight rockets were fired from Lebanon this morning at the northern city of Ma'alot-Tarshiha in Israel. The Iron Dome air defense system intercepted several projectiles. Other rockets apparently struck open areas. There were no reports of injuries in the attack, the Times of Israel reports.
7:27 a.m. – “Nyt”, Netanyahu has allowed Qatar to finance Hamas for years
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has for years allowed millions of dollars in funding from Qatar to the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas, hoping that the money would help Hamas maintain order in the Gaza Strip and increase political pressure to create a Palestinian -Arab state to reduce. This is what the New York Times newspaper writes, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. According to the newspaper, the head of the Mossad, David Barnea, traveled to Qatar just days before Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7 and made it clear to the government there that Prime Minister Netanyahu was in favor of continuing financial support for Doha for Hamas. For several years, Qatar has funded the Gaza Strip for humanitarian purposes, providing millions of dollars to cover public salaries and to purchase the fuel needed to run power plants. However, Israeli intelligence officials have long believed that the funds also went to Hamas and now believe that this money played a role in the success of the October 7 attack on Israel. According to a high-ranking Western diplomat quoted by the newspaper, Western governments have long since come to the conclusion that Hamas had misused money from Qatar to finance its military activities.
6:10 a.m. – Hamas: No hostage will return home without negotiations
A Hamas spokesman has warned about the lives of hostages still being held in Gaza. In a televised statement, he said that Israel “would not accept its prisoners alive without exchanges, negotiations and without meeting the demands of the resistance,” AFP reports. Israel says there are still 137 hostages in the Gaza Strip, while activists say about 7,000 Palestinians are in Israeli prisons. Qatar continues mediation to release more hostages, but Prime Minister Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani says: “Unfortunately, we are not seeing the same will as in previous weeks.”
6:04 a.m. – MON: Tuesday UN General Assembly after US veto on Gaza
The United Nations General Assembly has scheduled an emergency session for Tuesday to vote on a draft resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, told The Associated Press that it was similar to the Security Council resolution that the United States vetoed on Friday. There is no veto power in the General Assembly, but unlike the Security Council, its resolutions are not legally binding. Nevertheless, they are important as a barometer of global opinion. Thousands of Palestinians, mostly civilians, have died since the air and land war between Israel and Hamas broke out. Since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and other militants, 1,200 people have died and about 240 have been captured by Israel. Over 100 of them were released last month during a week-long ceasefire. With very little aid being provided, Palestinians are suffering from severe shortages of food, water and other basic needs. Some observers openly fear that the Palestinians will be forced to abandon Gaza entirely.
5:45 a.m. – MON: Over 100 Israeli soldiers have died since the Gaza operation began
Over 100 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the operation began in Gaza. This was announced by the Israeli army. The army announced on Monday the identities of three more soldiers killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip. Interviewed by AFP, he said 101 soldiers had been killed so far in this ground offensive.
3:43 a.m. – Israel: Hamas battalion commander Shejaiya eliminated
The Israel Defense Forces announced on Krikae had assumed his current position after his predecessor was killed. Previously, he was deputy commander of the same battalion and responsible for anti-tank missile training in the Gaza City Brigade.
1:34 a.m. – Middle East: On Tuesday, the United Nations will review the US veto of the ceasefire in Gaza
The United Nations General Assembly will meet in special session on Tuesday to discuss the United States' veto of the Security Council's latest resolution last Friday, which called for an immediate halt to the shooting in Gaza. Although the United States veto was not the first to be used – almost always in support of Israel – on this occasion it triggered numerous criticisms from the Muslim world, but also from Russia, China and African and Asian countries. Following a procedural reform in 2022, the President of the Assembly can call an extraordinary session if one of the five permanent members of the Security Council – the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom – uses its veto power to prevent a decision, who would otherwise have received the required majority (9 out of 15 members).