During his visit to the Middle East, the head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, considers it “imperative” that Israel does more to protect the population of the Gaza Strip. “Palestinian civilians must be able to return home as soon as conditions allow”, He underlines this Sunday from Qatar. Follow the latest information live.
8:09 p.m
LEBANON
Beirut airport was the target of a cyberattack on Sunday, Lebanon's National Information Agency (ANI) said. Images circulated by local media showed anti-Hezbollah messages on screens in the terminal.
“The cyber attack on the airport's departure and arrival screens disrupted the baggage screening system,” ANI said, adding that authorities were working to restore the display “and maintain normal traffic at the airport.”
According to press images, a message criticizing the powerful Lebanese movement Hezbollah appeared on the screen next to the emblem of a Christian group called “Soldiers of God.”
19:53
The risk of the conflict expanding
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip could “metastasize” in the region, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Sunday as he visited Qatar as part of a new tour of Arab and Israeli countries.
“This is a conflict that could easily metastasize and cause even more insecurity and more suffering,” he told a news conference, assuring that the United States was working to “prevent the spread of the conflict in the Middle East.”
7:01 p.m
ANTONY BLINKEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST
From Qatar, American Secretary of State Antony Blinken judges that Palestinians expelled from Gaza must be able to “return home” as quickly as possible. “Palestinian civilians must be able to return home as soon as conditions permit,” he said in Doha alongside Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdelrahmane Al-Thani as part of a new tour of Arab and Israeli countries.
The American official also believes the death of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza is an “unimaginable tragedy.” “I am deeply sorry (…) It is an unimaginable tragedy,” Antony Blinken said during a press conference alongside Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdelrahmane Al-Thani, adding that the number of “innocent Palestinians” killed in the The Gaza Strip has also been a tragedy since the beginning of the war.
6:38 p.m
WEST BANK
Israeli police said Sunday they shot and killed a Palestinian child at a checkpoint as they tried to stop a vehicle attack in the occupied West Bank. Doctors later said a three-year-old girl had died.
“After shooting at the terrorists, a girl who was in another vehicle at the checkpoint was injured,” Israeli police said. Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom said a three-year-old child was “pronounced dead” after an examination.
3:09 p.m
JOURNALISTS KILLED: AL Jazeera condemns “targeting”
Al-Jazeera has accused the Israeli army of “attacking” Palestinian journalists in Gaza after two journalists working for the Qatari satellite broadcaster were killed in an attack attributed to Israel.
Hamza Waël Dahdouh, the son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Waël al-Dahdouh, and Moustafa Thuraya, a freelance videographer working for the AFP, were killed on Sunday while driving in Rafah, on the southern tip of the Palestinian Authority area.
“Al Jazeera strongly condemns the attacks by Israeli occupation forces on the cars of Palestinian journalists,” the channel said in a statement, accusing Israel of “violating the principles of press freedom.”
14:21
MATHILDE PANOT
The leader of the LFI MPs, Mathilde Panot, disapproved of “the manner” in which Israel eliminated Hamas' number two, Saleh al-Arouri, who was killed in an attack in Lebanon, and considered this to be contrary to international law. “I do not agree that (…) Netanyahu's far-right government can go to neighboring countries (…) to carry out attacks in this way,” she said on BFMTV.
Is it illegal for Israelis to eliminate Hamas leaders abroad? “The way they do it, absolutely,” replied the elected official from Val-de-Marne. “Lebanon is a sovereign state. And that’s why it can’t work like that,” she emphasized again. Before insisting: “I am in favor of respecting international law, which does not provide for the possibility of a strike in a neighboring country.”
12:58
NEW REVIEW
The Palestinian Hamas Ministry of Health announced today that Israeli military operations in the besieged Gaza Strip have caused 22,835 deaths since the war began on October 7. Those deaths include 113 people killed in the past 24 hours, the ministry said, which also injured 58,416 people in the Gaza Strip during three months of fighting and bombing.
11:16
JORDAN CALLS FOR ARMED FIRE
Abdullah II of Jordan called on the United States to press Israel for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and warned of the “catastrophic impact” of continued hostilities as he hosted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Amman.
The latter arrived yesterday evening and is embarking on a new journey through the Middle East to prevent the conflict from spreading and an “endless cycle of violence”. He is also scheduled to visit a World Food Program center, according to a senior American official in his entourage. According to a statement from the Royal Palace in Amman, Abdullah II also stressed the need to end the “tragic humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.”
11:15
JOURNALISTS KILLED
The Hamas Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday that two Palestinian journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Moustafa Thuraya, a freelance videographer working for AFP, and Hamza Waël Dahdouh, a journalist for Al-Jazeera channel, died while driving, the ministry and rescuers said.
10:27
WEST BANK
An Israeli civilian was shot dead in the West Bank today, the Israeli army said, as the occupied territory is the scene of deadly violence that has increased in recent months.
The Israeli was killed “near the British police crossing” north of Ramallah, the army said, adding that police were searching for the attacker.
09:14
FOUR MONTHS OF WAR
The war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas entered its fourth month today with no sign of respite, as the Israeli air force carried out new deadly attacks in Gaza and Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to prevent a regional conflagration.
After an unprecedented attack on its territory on October 7 that killed around 1,140 people, mostly civilians, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas, according to an AFP news agency count based on Israeli death tolls. About 250 people were kidnapped, including about a hundred who were released during a ceasefire in late November.
According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, 22,722 people, mostly civilians, died in the Israeli offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip. The bombings destroyed entire neighborhoods, forced 85% of the population to flee and sparked a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, according to the UN.
07:54
WEST BANK
According to police, one Israeli officer was killed and three injured this Sunday in an attack by Israeli forces on the Palestinian refugee camp Jenin in the occupied West Bank. “She (the slain officer) was in a military vehicle that was hit by an explosive device,” she said.
According to the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry, the attack left six Palestinians dead.
07:15
FLASHING IN JORDAN
Antony Blinken continues his visit to the Middle East with Jordan in an intense diplomatic sequence aimed at preventing a flare-up of the conflict in the Gaza Strip at all costs and preventing “an endless cycle of violence.” According to a senior American official in his entourage, when he arrives in Amman on Saturday evening, the American Secretary of State is scheduled to hold meetings with Jordan's King Abdullah II and visit a World Food Program center in the Jordanian capital.
During a brief speech on Saturday evening on the tarmac at Chania airport in Crete, Greece, he said: “We must ensure that the conflict does not spread.” “One of the real concerns is the border between Israel and Lebanon, and we want to do everything we can to ensure there is no escalation,” he added.
07:12
SIX DEAD IN THE WEST BANK
An Israeli attack killed six people early this morning in Jenin, the stronghold of armed Palestinian groups in the occupied West Bank. “Six people were killed in a bomb attack by the Israeli occupying forces on a group of citizens in Jenin,” said the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority, which is based in this Israeli-occupied territory.
07:11
ISRAEL DEMANDS A VICTORY
The Israeli army announced last night that it had “completed the military defeat” of Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip and was now focusing on “the center and south” of that area. In the northern Gaza Strip, “terrorists are still acting sporadically and without orders,” Israeli army spokesman General Daniel Hagari said during a news conference as the war enters its fourth month on Sunday.
07:09
PRO-PALESTINIAN RALLERS
Yesterday, several rallies in support of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip took place in Paris and in several major cities. According to police headquarters, “1,500 participants” marched in the Caitale between Place de la Bastille and Place de la Nation at the call of the CAPJPO-EuroPalestine association. “Immediate ceasefire,” the crowd chanted as they marched toward the Nation, where a rally organized by Urgence Palestine in support of the Palestinian people awaited them.
There were also gatherings in some other cities: almost 250 people in Lille, 300 to 400 in Rennes, 300 in Strasbourg. In the Alsatian capital, for example, two banners opened the parade reading “Stop the massacre in Gaza, immediate ceasefire” and “We want peace.”
06:58
GOOD MORNING
Welcome to this live broadcast on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
On Saturday, January 6, the Israeli Air Force carried out new strikes on the besieged and devastated Gaza Strip, where dozens of Palestinians have died in the last 24 hours, with the United Nations describing the area as an “uninhabitable place of death.” The same day, the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at a military base in Meron, northern Israel, an attack portrayed as an initial response to Tuesday's elimination of Hamas's number two leader near Beirut, attributed to Israel.
Hezbollah said five fighters were killed by Israeli strikes during the day. According to the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA), it targeted several villages and towns in southern Lebanon, where a Syrian refugee was injured.
After an unprecedented attack on Israeli soil on October 7 that killed 1,140 people, mostly civilians, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas, according to an AFP news agency count based on Israeli death tolls. About 250 people were kidnapped, including about a hundred who were released during a ceasefire in late November. According to a recent report from the Hamas Ministry of Health, incessant Israeli shelling in Gaza has left 22,722 dead, mostly women, children and teenagers, and more than 58,000 injured. According to this source, 122 people were killed in the last 24 hours.
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna called her Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Saturday to call on “Iran and its cronies” to “immediately” stop their “destabilizing actions.” Ms. Colonna claims to have “sent a very clear message: the risk of regional conflagration has never been greater; Iran and its cronies must immediately stop their destabilizing actions. No one would benefit from an escalation,” said a message posted on the social network
The head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, on Saturday, on the way to a new tour of the Middle East in Greece, stressed the need to prevent at all costs an expansion of the conflict in Gaza, especially on the border between Israel and Lebanon .
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